Bess Wohl’s “Camp Siegfried” at the Old Vic: Powerfully Chilling and Resonant
Are we too obsessed with Nazism? Apart from countless television programs which revisit that grim...
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Divas Are Forever: Marina Abramović’s “7 Deaths of Maria Callas”
Does a diva ever really die? It’s a fitting question from the reigning queen of endurance art,...
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Playing with “White is Purity” in Pirandello’s “Comme tu me veux”
In 2017, the cosmetics company Nivea released an advert that was promptly pulled: a white woman’s...
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Rockets and Blue Lights, National Theatre
For more than three decades, playwright Winsome Pinnock has been at the forefront of new writing,...
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The Barber of Seville
Indeed in the Baroque period, before the invention of the conductors, harpsichordists (who were usually also the composer) would lead the orchestra, establishing the harmonic structure and ensuring the rhythmic steadiness by nodding their heads. As music became more harmonically complex, and harpsichordists had to focus exclusively on their playing, the conducting duties fell to the first violinist. This style of orchestral leading, split between the harpsichordists and the violinist, was soon abandoned due to an inherent clash in leadership.
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Subira, A New Musical: Under-promised, Over-delivered!
‘Time waits for no military man!’. Thus, on a punctual note, Subira, A New Musical opened on...
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“RashDash: Look at Me, Don’t Look at Me,” Paines Plough Roundabout
Imagine you suffered terrible injustices that in your day and age were just the norm, that your...
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“An Odyssey” at Quantum Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA
Imagine, if you will, one of those old-fashioned TV game shows with two doors. Behind Door Number...
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“(It’s Been 76 Years and We’re) Still Waiting for Lefty” – Theatre Unleashed at Hollywood Fringe Festival
Seventy-six years after Clifford Odets’ Waiting for Lefty premiered in New York, Theatre Unleashed...
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“Every dollar is a soldier/With money you’re a dragon”: A Virtual Promenade between Two Migrant Fates
Running Aug 24-29 at the 2021 Edinburgh Fringe, Every dollar is a soldier/With money you’re a...
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“Youth Everlasting and Life Without Death”: Performing Folk-tale and “Centriphery”
A Theoretical and Organizational Premise “Centriphery” is an on-going large-scale...
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Andrei Kureichik’s “Insulted. Belarus”: One Year On
Alexei Nesterov, an actor in my wife Oksana Mysina’s film, Insulted. Belarus(sia), sent her a...
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“The Princesses of Askies Shem Street” – Not a Story about Dirty Laundry Only!
The Princesses of Askies Shem Street written and directed by Khutjo Green is one of four...
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“WET: A DACAmented Journey” – Powerful Virtual Theatre from The Center Theatre Group
With so many screens in our lives it continues to be a struggle to find the inner strength to...
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The Song Project, Royal Court
As its name suggests, The Song Project is more a collaborative experiment than a conventional...
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Be Gone! Or, Clear Away, Chop Chop: Dziady at 34/36 Mickiewicza Street in Warsaw
Adam Mickiewicz’s Dziady (Forefathers’ Eve), written between 1820 and 1832, is considered sacred...
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“Chalk Lines” by Chalk Repertory Theatre – An Immersive, Virtual, Audio Play Tour
Since January 2009, Chalk Repertory Theatre has been crafting site-specific theatre in Los...
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Beckett 2020
Have the worlds of Samuel Beckett’s plays become our reality? The creators of Beckett Planet seem...
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“Braids on Fire”: Anna Witt’s Video Installation and Performances in Naples
The Museum Complex of Santa Maria delle Anime del Purgatorio ad Arco, in the ancient center of...
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A Gathering of Absence: The Multimedia Performance of “Abandoned Shores / Negative Photographs”
Abandoned Shores / Negative Photographs (Turkish: Terk Edilmiş Kıyılar // Negatif Fotoğraflar) by...
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