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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Groundbreaking Autistic-Led Production of “A Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” at A Common Thread Theatre Company in Framingham, MA
When Christopher Boone from A Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was first introduced...
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“The Overcoat:” A Balaganza of Absurdity and Travesty.
The 10th MITEM Theatre Festival continues to showcase the theatre achievements of Hungarian...
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The Ephemera of the Cherry Orchard: Agnieszka Kazimierska’s “Katie’s Tales”
Agnieszka Kazimierska has always been an artist. From the age of six, she told as much to her...
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Tanika Gupta’s “The Empress” at the Lyric Hammersmith: Epic RSC History Play Tackles Race and Empire
Anniversaries are great moments for reassessment. Ten years ago, the Royal Shakespeare Company...
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“Leaning Church”: The Voices of a Vanished City
This is the story of the Big Bang. Not the explosion that gave birth to the universe. But an...
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“Cake: The Marie Antoinette Playlist” Review: An Absolute Treat
Cake: The Marie Antoinette Playlist may be presented as a concert, but Drew McOnie’s...
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“Kinder” Review: Tackling Big Issues One Little Footstep At A Time
In a short hour, Smoking Apple’s touring production, Kinder, transports us across...
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The Tony Blair Rock Opera Features Bagpipes, Lady Macbeth and a Wrestling Match With Gordon Brown
If you’re looking for subtlety and sophistication, Harry Hill and Steve Brown’s Tony! The Tony...
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“Fear Eats The Soul”: Love In The Grip of Hate
These two people are separated by history, geography, language, maths, and other school subjects...
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Little Thumb on the Prairie
The headline for Swing State, a new play by Rebecca Gilman, is its pitch-perfect production...
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James Reaney’s “The Donnelly Trilogy” and the Making of the Canadian Nation
When you head out of London on Highway 4 North, it is almost a straight line through to Lucan,...
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She Arts Festival Launches In Cairo
The third edition of She Arts, a festival dedicated to showcasing women’s creativity,...
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“Gulliver’s Travels”: a Lesson in Satire for Children.
“The life of man to represent, And turn it all to ridicule, Wit did a puppet-show...
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Keeping Alive the U.N.’s Dialogue Among Civilizations – as Theatre
This is the third of a series of articles to discuss the Dialogue of Civilizations theater...
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A Journey of Discovery and Identity Formation: “The Dictionary of Lost Words” Makes Its Wonderful Stage Debut
The Dictionary of Lost Words follows Esme as she navigates the patriarchal world of Victorian...
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On Stage And In A Wheelchair
Zhao Hongcheng has made hundreds of videos about the challenges of life as a disabled person. Now...
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“That Face” at Orange Tree Theatre
Playwright Polly Stenham had a meteoric rise with this play, her award-winning 2007 debut which...
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