“Shards of Chaotic Memory in Multicoloured Ink”
At Milan’s Franco Parenti theatre, Shards of Chaotic Memory in Multicoloured Ink (Schegge di...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 16th Apr 2025 | Italy, Review, Theatre and Disability
At Milan’s Franco Parenti theatre, Shards of Chaotic Memory in Multicoloured Ink (Schegge di...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 15th Apr 2025 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, Review, United Kingdom
Coming of age stories are more or less all the same. But what distinguishes Julia Grogan’s...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 11th Apr 2025 | Documentary Theatre, Dramaturgy, Review, United Kingdom
Are we really in “a new era of male anger, societal discontent and rage”? This is what Royal Court...
Read MorePosted by Cristina Modreanu | 7th Apr 2025 | Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America
Did you knit your scarf? A woman asked me while we were waiting in the line for the restroom. No!...
Read MorePosted by Morgan Skolnik | 2nd Apr 2025 | New York, Review, Theatre and Religion
The room is thick with steam (ok, it’s smoke machine smoke), an accordion and clarinet cycle...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 28th Mar 2025 | Acting, London, Review, United Kingdom
Anxiety. Apprehension. Angst even. Yes, that’s the feeling that rises in me as I come into the...
Read MorePosted by Morgan Skolnik | 27th Mar 2025 | New York, Review, Theatre and Gender
Much like the women it centers on, Roundabout Theatre Company’s Liberation is rebellious and not...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 21st Mar 2025 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
One of the joys of contemporary playwriting is its openness to flexible casting. In Ruby Thomas’s...
Read MorePosted by Emilija Kvočka | 18th Mar 2025 | Directing, Review, Serbia
The theatrical kamikaze that destroys all the mechanisms of the world and itself—that is, theatre...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 10th Mar 2025 | Directing, Italy, Review
In February I caught Antonio Syxty’s staging of Romeo e Giulietta (Romeo and Juliet) at Milan’s...
Read MorePosted by Emily Cordes | 8th Mar 2025 | Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America
But a woman is a changeling, always shifting shape Just when you think you have it figured out...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 5th Mar 2025 | Acting, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
How long would you wait for your soulmate? In “The Demon Lover”, a short story by Elizabeth Bowen,...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 5th Mar 2025 | Italy, Review, Theatre and Science
Rarely have I spent such an intense ninety minutes watching a show, as I did the other evening at...
Read MorePosted by Geraldine Brodie | 3rd Mar 2025 | Germany, Review, Theatre and Gender
Interpretations in cultures and languages external to Spain have been integral to the survival of...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 2nd Mar 2025 | Italy, Review, Theatre and Politics
In his short story, A Report to an Academy, written and published in 1917, Franz Kafka imagines...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 26th Feb 2025 | London, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Decolonization, United Kingdom
Diaries are dynamite — they hold secrets, and secrets can tear families apart. In Coral Wylie’s...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 21st Feb 2025 | Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
British people are socially awkward: this explains why we talk about the weather, queue...
Read MorePosted by Morgan Skolnik | 13th Feb 2025 | Musical Theatre, New York, Review
“The singing is nice, but the staging is atrocious.” So remarked the couple sitting behind me at...
Read MorePosted by Morgan Skolnik | 13th Feb 2025 | New York, Review, Theatre and Politics
Any frequent theater-goer is likely familiar with the “two block rule”, a piece of etiquette that...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 13th Feb 2025 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
With the United States now governed by swaggering, ignorant bigots spewing xenophobic venom,...
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