“The Shadow Garden” Kosovo Theatre Showcase
The Shadow Garden, part of this year’s Kosovo Theatre Showcase, seems an almost impossible task to...
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“The Interview” Review: A Blend of Fact and Speculation
One of the first questions anyone would ask after looking at a poster of Jonathan Maitland’s...
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Wicked the Musical Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary On Stage. An Exclusive Interview With Adam Garcia – the Original Fiyero of the West End.
The musical Wicked premiered on Broadway twenty years ago and quickly earned the title of the very...
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“Negotiating Peace”, Kosovo Theatre Showcase 2023
There are wars, and then there are post wars, the kind of which take place around the negotiating...
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“A Short History of Burgers and Other Stories” Kosovo Theatre Showcase 2023
Some years ago, I discussed my love of buckwheat with the co-artistic director of Belarus Free...
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“Boy Parts.” Soho Theatre
We’ve all heard of the male gaze, but what about its subversion? Overturning masculine dominance...
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Venus and Adonis: this “play within a plague” about Shakespeare is wildly romantic, erotic and colorful
Shakespeare wrote his famous narrative poem Venus and Adonis in a lockdown era when, in 1593, the...
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“Gadjo (The Young Europeans)” Kosovo Theatre Showcase 2023
Everywhere’s a stage, but not all stages are equal. Some stages are empty of story and empathy,...
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SheNYC Takes the Stage: “Fort Huachuca” and “Bloodshot” at A.R.T./NY
To begin as we proceed, with full transparency, I have to admit how big a fan I am of SheNYC Arts...
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“La Regenta” as Opera: a Coruscating Portrait of Smalltown Community Abuse
It is not an easy prospect to adapt into opera one of the most acclaimed social realist novels of...
Read MoreLeonard Okware: 39 Years Behind the Lights
Leonard Okware has been making theatre companies at the national theatre in Uganda look good for the past 39 years. Theatre lighting design has a major influence on setting the tone and mood of any theatre production. It is what...
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The Danger Within: “Asesinato y adolescencia” / “Assassination and Adolescence” Opens the Español’s Season at Madrid’s Matadero
There is something beguiling, provocative and timely in Andrés Lima’s staging of Antonio San...
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“Blue Mist,” Royal Court
Multiculturalism, according to the Home Secretary, has failed, so where does that leave British...
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Floating Islands of AI: Agrupación Señor Serrano’s “La isla/The Island” in Madrid
Agrupación Señor Serrano go where other theatre-makers fear to tread. They are always one step...
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“Strength, Don’t Let Yourself Be Anyone’s” – BITEF, Belgrade, Serbia
The Belgrade International Theater Festival was founded in 1967 and to this day represents one of...
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“My Sister Jill:” Patricia Cornelius’ New Play is a Blistering Post-War Social and Cultural Commentary
Emerging from one of Australia’s most enduring and significant theatrical partnerships between...
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Tartuffe or the Hypocrite: Tartare of Tartuffe
One of the most popular dishes in French cuisine is tartare. Diced beef with egg yolk and lots of...
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James Fritz’s The Flea at the Yard Theatre: History Play Gives a Queer Reading of the Cleveland Street Scandal of 1889
Famous sex scandals don’t always make good plays. Although the tabloid nature of such events...
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Lolita Chakrabarti’s Hamnet at the Garrick Theatre: Pedestrian Adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s Bestseller About Shakespeare’s Wife and Son
Why are stage adaptations of bestselling novels so disappointing? Okay, I appreciate the...
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The Life of Three “Best Friends:” Anat Gov’s Feminism at the 14th Street Y
Anat Gov’s Best Friends lives in a world of dichotomy. The title is both entirely true and...
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