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Jimmy Savile Play May Revolt Some, But It’s A Necessary Part Of Confronting The Horror

Posted by John Drakakis | 9th Apr 2015 | Adaptation, Essay, London, United Kingdom

The announcement that a play about Jimmy Savile is to be staged in London this summer has raised...

Need A Stage Coach? Why Some Plays Work, And Others Don’t

Posted by Julian Meyrick | 8th Apr 2015 | Australia, Essay, Playwriting

We all know whether a given play, film or TV drama “works” or not, but it’s often difficult to...

A Pig’s Head at the Moscow Art Theater

Posted by Ania Aizman | 4th Apr 2015 | Essay, Russia

On April 1st, 2015, orthodox activists, calling themselves “God’s Will”,...

Novosibirsk Theater Director Fired Over Tannhäuser Opera Scandal

Posted by RBTH | 31st Mar 2015 | News, Russia, Theatre and Opera

Boris Mezdrich’s production of Wagner opera offended Orthodox activists. Boris Mezdrich, the...

3 Russian Contributions To Theater That Changed The World

Posted by Alexandra Guryanova | 29th Mar 2015 | Acting, Essay, Russia

In honor of World Theater Day on March 27, RBTH presents three of Russia’s greatest contributions...

Experts Fear “Tannhäuser” Case A Warning, Despite Dismissal

Posted by Yekaterina Sinelschikova | 14th Mar 2015 | Essay, Russia, Theatre and Opera

A lawsuit filed by a local branch of the Russian Orthodox Church against the director of the...

“Beauty And The Beast” Promises And Fails At The Adelaide Festival

Posted by Daniela Kaleva | 12th Mar 2015 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Disability, United Kingdom

Beauty And The Beast is the quintessential story of a young beautiful daughter who has to live...

The “Dancer’s Body” Is Fat: Force Majeure’s “Nothing To Lose”

Posted by Jackie Wykes and Cat Pausé | 10th Mar 2015 | Australia, Essay, Theatre and Politics

The fear and loathing of fat is such a ubiquitous part of contemporary Western culture that it...

The Amateur’s Age Of Unriddling: “Finnegans Wake” On Stage

Posted by Gabrielle Carey | 9th Mar 2015 | Adaptation, Australia, News

Seventy-five years after publication, James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake may finally be starting to make...

Mieczysław Weinberg’s Opera “The Passenger”: On Memory and Forgetting

Posted by Magda Romanska | 4th Mar 2015 | Essay, Poland, Polish Theatre Abroad, Theatre and Opera

Polish classical musicians and opera singers have always enjoyed global renown, with singers such...

Theatre Reviewing Is A Responsible Job–And It Requires Care

Posted by Julian Meyrick | 25th Feb 2015 | Australia, Essay, Management

Is there any job other than theatre critic where so little knowledge can carry so much weight? If...

Western Sydney Meets The City In Nakkiah Lui’s “Kill The Messenger”

Posted by Victoria Grieves | 23rd Feb 2015 | Australia, Playwriting, Review

Last week I went to the theatre. Unusual? No. But I say this because this event was real theatre...

A National Theatre Of Australia Is Needed, And It’s Time

Posted by Julian Meyrick | 17th Feb 2015 | Australia, Essay, Management

Sociologist Max Weber once called politics “the slow boring of hard boards”. If he had been in the...

Sebastian Kreyer’s Staging of “Ghosts”

Posted by Ilana Walder-Biesanz | 13th Feb 2015 | Germany, Review

I’ve complained a lot in previous reviews about directors staging tragedies as comedies. But...

#Wikiturgy Edit-A-Thon

Posted by Amelia Parenteau | 12th Feb 2015 | Dramaturgy, News, United States of America

Last year, on February 17, the online theater world exploded following candid remarks regarding...

Florin Piersic Jr’s “Freak Show” Reviewed By Camelia Ciobanu

Posted by Camelia Ciobanu | 2nd Feb 2015 | Review, Romania

Humanity is by no means short of afflictions and artists never tire of exposing them. One of these...

Is It A “Birdman”? Is It A Play? It’s Super Meta-Textuality!

Posted by Colin Yeo | 28th Jan 2015 | Essay, North America, Theatre and Film

What do Shakespeare’s Hamlet, The Simpsons, and Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s film Birdman have in...

A Better-Than-Traditional Woyzeck

Posted by Ilana Walder-Biesanz | 26th Jan 2015 | Germany, Review, Theatre and Gender

I don’t actually like Woyzeck very much, so I am not sure why I bought tickets to two different...

The Threepenny Non-Opera

Posted by Ilana Walder-Biesanz | 25th Jan 2015 | Germany, Musical Theatre, Review, Theatre and Opera

Brecht and Weill’s Threepenny Opera is much more of a musical than an opera. But it decidedly...

Q And A With Author Of “The Tribe”: Michael Mohammed Ahmad

Posted by Alix Bromley | 21st Jan 2015 | Adaptation, Australia, Interview

This week, as part of Sydney Festival’s Bankstown: Live program, Michael Mohammed Ahmad will...

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Jimmy Savile Play May Revolt Some, But It’s A Necessary Part Of Confronting The Horror

Need A Stage Coach? Why Some Plays Work, And Others Don’t

A Pig’s Head at the Moscow Art Theater

Novosibirsk Theater Director Fired Over Tannhäuser Opera Scandal

3 Russian Contributions To Theater That Changed The World

Experts Fear “Tannhäuser” Case A Warning, Despite Dismissal

“Beauty And The Beast” Promises And Fails At The Adelaide Festival

The “Dancer’s Body” Is Fat: Force Majeure’s “Nothing To Lose”

The Amateur’s Age Of Unriddling: “Finnegans Wake” On Stage

Mieczysław Weinberg’s Opera “The Passenger”: On Memory and Forgetting

Theatre Reviewing Is A Responsible Job–And It Requires Care

Western Sydney Meets The City In Nakkiah Lui’s “Kill The Messenger”

A National Theatre Of Australia Is Needed, And It’s Time

Sebastian Kreyer’s Staging of “Ghosts”

#Wikiturgy Edit-A-Thon

Florin Piersic Jr’s “Freak Show” Reviewed By Camelia Ciobanu

Is It A “Birdman”? Is It A Play? It’s Super Meta-Textuality!

A Better-Than-Traditional Woyzeck

The Threepenny Non-Opera

Q And A With Author Of “The Tribe”: Michael Mohammed Ahmad

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