“Die Reuk Van Appels” (“The Smell Of Apples”) at the Fugard Theatre in Cape Town
We are surrounded by violence and our country is beset by an ongoing cycle with little ebb and...
Read MorePosted by Tracey Saunders | 29th Oct 2017 | Adaptation, Review, South Africa, Theatre and Politics
We are surrounded by violence and our country is beset by an ongoing cycle with little ebb and...
Read MorePosted by Donald Brown | 28th Oct 2017 | New York, Review, Theatre and Gender, Translation, United States of America
Elfriede Jelinek’s Shadow. Eurydice Says is not much of a drama, if by that is meant a...
Read MorePosted by Christine Deitner | 28th Oct 2017 | Los Angeles, Musical Theatre, Review, United States of America
With the opening of Bright Star at The Ahmanson Theatre at The Music Center in Downtown Los...
Read MorePosted by Donald Brown | 27th Oct 2017 | Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America
The great strength of The Wolves, the debut play by Sarah DeLappe now playing in an extended run...
Read MorePosted by James Montaño | 26th Oct 2017 | Boston, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
When the dying King Berenger the First petulantly exclaims “Let everything die, if my death won’t...
Read MorePosted by Christine Deitner | 26th Oct 2017 | Adaptation, Los Angeles, Review, United States of America
Trapped in an atmosphere rife with the air of past punishment and with no concrete tasks to take up their time, Alice [Lizzy Kimball] and The Captain [Darrell Larson] play cards, say they will allow themselves one drink then pour three or more over the course of an evening, and argue with an off-stage cook about a dinner that never arrives. They wonder whether they should take on another lover and recall how the last threesome went. If this doesn’t sound like Strindberg to you, you’ve been missing out for not only is the play as sexually explicit as one could get in its time, it is also brutally funny and Ms. Kimball and Mr. Larson know exactly how to use both elements to their most effective ends as they engage in a slowly building battle for supremacy over the other.
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 25th Oct 2017 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
Over the last ten years, a new form has evolved on the British stage, rather simply referred to as...
Read MorePosted by Trevor Boffone | 25th Oct 2017 | Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America
The Astrodome has always stirred up a sense of nostalgia in me. Growing up in New Orleans, we...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 25th Oct 2017 | London, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
What does it mean to feel contemporary? Feel. Contemporary. Really feel. According to...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 24th Oct 2017 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom
How do you bring a 10th-century Old English epic closer to a 21st-century audience? And, more...
Read MorePosted by Len Collin | 24th Oct 2017 | Musical Theatre, Review, United Kingdom
Katie Hopkins, the controversial British media commentator, has become the subject of a new stage...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 24th Oct 2017 | Directing, Japan, Review
The route that has brought Richard Twyman to Tokyo to direct an all-Japanese cast in a play based...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 24th Oct 2017 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
Playwright Simon Stephens and director Marianne Elliott are hyped as a winning partnership. Their...
Read MorePosted by Sarah Balkin | 23rd Oct 2017 | Australia, Musical Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America
Taylor Mac described The Inauguration, which helped launch the 2017 Melbourne Festival, as “a...
Read MorePosted by Sandra D'urso | 23rd Oct 2017 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Gender
Despite its forays into dark subject matter, Caravan, staged as part of the Melbourne Festival, is...
Read MorePosted by Farhang Farbod | 22nd Oct 2017 | Festivals, Iran, Review
The 18th Traditional and Ritual Theatre Festival was held September 1–6 in Tehran. The festival...
Read MorePosted by Heather Waters | 21st Oct 2017 | New York, Puppetry, Review, Theatre and Art, United States of America
Ping Chong + Company’s show ALAXSXA | ALASKA subverts an overused Western storyline of people as...
Read MorePosted by Cheng-Han Wu | 21st Oct 2017 | Belgium, China, Festivals, Review, Theatre and Opera, Transcultural Collaborations
Belgium’s new opera company Muziektheater Transparant is invited by the 2017 Beijing Music...
Read MorePosted by Katrina Holden-Buckley | 20th Oct 2017 | Boston, Review, Theatre and Opera, United States of America
Riding the line between political thriller and melodrama, Joseph Kerman described Puccini’s Tosca...
Read MorePosted by Donald Brown | 20th Oct 2017 | Review, Translation, United States of America
Thanks to Trump’s designation of the press as “the enemy of the people,” the question of what...
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