St. Petersburg Ballet Company To Present New Psychodrama On U.S. Tour
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Opera Production By Peter Sellars Wins At Golden Mask Awards
U.S. director’s staging of Purcell’s, The Indian Queen, dominates annual ceremony in Moscow....
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Culture Wars in the Russian Theater
As the government continues to censor and cancel Russian theater performances, a group of artists...
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Bolshoi’s “Ivan Grozny” To Be Broadcast Around The World
Grigorovich production will be shown in more than 1,000 movie theaters. The Bolshoi Theater has...
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We Can’t Get Those Two Hours Back–Drama Works As Time Unfolds
This is a long-read essay, the second in a series on playwriting and drama by Julian Meyrick. Part...
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Why We Should Expect Great Things From David Bowie’s New Musical Play
I’m not sure many saw David Bowie’s latest creative project coming. It was recently announced that...
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Jimmy Savile Play May Revolt Some, But It’s A Necessary Part Of Confronting The Horror
The announcement that a play about Jimmy Savile is to be staged in London this summer has raised...
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Need A Stage Coach? Why Some Plays Work, And Others Don’t
We all know whether a given play, film or TV drama “works” or not, but it’s often difficult to...
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A Pig’s Head at the Moscow Art Theater
On April 1st, 2015, orthodox activists, calling themselves “God’s Will”,...
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Novosibirsk Theater Director Fired Over Tannhäuser Opera Scandal
Boris Mezdrich’s production of Wagner opera offended Orthodox activists. Boris Mezdrich, the...
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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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