3 Russian Contributions To Theater That Changed The World
In honor of World Theater Day on March 27, RBTH presents three of Russia’s greatest contributions...
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Experts Fear “Tannhäuser” Case A Warning, Despite Dismissal
A lawsuit filed by a local branch of the Russian Orthodox Church against the director of the...
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“Beauty And The Beast” Promises And Fails At The Adelaide Festival
Beauty And The Beast is the quintessential story of a young beautiful daughter who has to live...
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The “Dancer’s Body” Is Fat: Force Majeure’s “Nothing To Lose”
The fear and loathing of fat is such a ubiquitous part of contemporary Western culture that it...
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The Amateur’s Age Of Unriddling: “Finnegans Wake” On Stage
Seventy-five years after publication, James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake may finally be starting to make...
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Mieczysław Weinberg’s Opera “The Passenger”: On Memory and Forgetting
Polish classical musicians and opera singers have always enjoyed global renown, with singers such...
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Theatre Reviewing Is A Responsible Job–And It Requires Care
Is there any job other than theatre critic where so little knowledge can carry so much weight? If...
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Western Sydney Meets The City In Nakkiah Lui’s “Kill The Messenger”
Last week I went to the theatre. Unusual? No. But I say this because this event was real theatre...
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A National Theatre Of Australia Is Needed, And It’s Time
Sociologist Max Weber once called politics “the slow boring of hard boards”. If he had been in the...
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Sebastian Kreyer’s Staging of “Ghosts”
I’ve complained a lot in previous reviews about directors staging tragedies as comedies. But...
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#Wikiturgy Edit-A-Thon
Last year, on February 17, the online theater world exploded following candid remarks regarding...
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Florin Piersic Jr’s “Freak Show” Reviewed By Camelia Ciobanu
Humanity is by no means short of afflictions and artists never tire of exposing them. One of these...
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Is It A “Birdman”? Is It A Play? It’s Super Meta-Textuality!
What do Shakespeare’s Hamlet, The Simpsons, and Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s film Birdman have in...
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A Better-Than-Traditional Woyzeck
I don’t actually like Woyzeck very much, so I am not sure why I bought tickets to two different...
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The Threepenny Non-Opera
Brecht and Weill’s Threepenny Opera is much more of a musical than an opera. But it decidedly...
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Q And A With Author Of “The Tribe”: Michael Mohammed Ahmad
This week, as part of Sydney Festival’s Bankstown: Live program, Michael Mohammed Ahmad will...
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Every Detail Counts In “Wot? No Fish!!” At Sydney Festival
During an artist talk just an hour before performing Wot? No Fish!! on Saturday at the Sydney...
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Moscow’s Oddest Puppet Theater: Ambulances, Shakespeare Menus, And Lilikans
At the Ten’ (Shadow’) puppet theater in Moscow, audiences can watch plays in miniature or...
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Japan’s Theater Scene Begins to Decentralize
Tokyo has long been the center of Japan’s theatre world, but in 2014, that began to change,...
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50 Years with Ariane Mnouchkine’s Théâtre du Soleil
American playwright, translator, and journalist Amelia Parenteau is currently in residence in...
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