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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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Brecht and Weill’s Threepenny Opera is much more of a musical than an opera. But it decidedly...
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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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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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American playwright, translator, and journalist Amelia Parenteau is currently in residence in...
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Ridley Scott’s Casting Of White Actors Is Symptomatic Of Larger Problems
Director Ridley Scott recently set off a firestorm when he dismissed those who criticized him for...
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Staging Power: David Williamson’s Portrait Of Citizen Murdoch
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“Venus in Furs” at The Budapest English Theatre
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Strange Fates of Shakespeare’s First Folio
The Shakespeare First Folio (1623), the first collected edition of his plays and the sole source...
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