Women on the Verge: Caryl Churchill’s “Escaped Alone”
In an 1896 essay on “The Tragic in Daily Life,” the Symbolist playwright Maurice Maeterlinck...
Read MorePosted by Jessica Rizzo | 2nd Mar 2017 | New York, Review, Theatre and Age, United States of America
In an 1896 essay on “The Tragic in Daily Life,” the Symbolist playwright Maurice Maeterlinck...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 1st Mar 2017 | Immersive Theatre, London, Review, United Kingdom
One of the reasons that Philip Ridley is the crown prince of imaginative playwriting is that he...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 27th Feb 2017 | Belgium, Review, Theatre for Young Audiences
How do you stage appalling real-life events? I mean, without either being too luridly voyeuristic...
Read MorePosted by Clement Lee | 22nd Feb 2017 | China, Hong Kong, Review, Theatre and Politics
A Concise History of Future, Yan Pat-to’s new Berlin Theatertreffen Stückemarkt award-winning...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 22nd Feb 2017 | Adaptation, Review, United Kingdom
There are few modern literary fables that really resonate in the wider culture. And most that do...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 21st Feb 2017 | Review, United Kingdom
The new writing year has started slowly. Apart from a couple of obscure fringe shows, there have...
Read MorePosted by Lyndall Grant | 20th Feb 2017 | Australia, China, Review, Theatre and Politics, Transcultural Collaborations
China’s one-child policy officially ended in 2016. Little Emperors, currently showing at...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 19th Feb 2017 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Young British writers are often surprisingly unadventurous when it comes to locating their plays...
Read MorePosted by Jack Wernick | 17th Feb 2017 | New York, Review, Theatre and Opera, United States of America
In an inviting, Frank Lloyd Wright-designed venue, New Yorkers finally got a sampling of Champion,...
Read MorePosted by Jessica Rizzo | 16th Feb 2017 | New York, Review, United States of America
As goes the theater, so goes civilization. In Wallace Shawn’s Evening at the Talk House the demise...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 14th Feb 2017 | Germany, Review, Theatre and Politics, Translation, United Kingdom
A day or so after Theresa May’s keynote speech about Brexit the words Europe and European carry an...
Read MorePosted by Kata Karah | 13th Feb 2017 | Review, Romania, Theatre and Politics
In a way, communism has always been playing on the masses. There are endless things hidden within...
Read MorePosted by Andreea Scridon | 12th Feb 2017 | Playwriting, Review, Russia, Russian Theatre Abroad
Ognisko Polskie, the Polish Hearth Club, is an exquisite venue: glistening chandeliers please the...
Read MorePosted by Jessica Rizzo | 10th Feb 2017 | Immersive Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America
“Do your things spark joy?” That (to some, risibly) simple question, and her runaway 2014...
Read MorePosted by Andreea Scridon | 6th Feb 2017 | London, Review, Russia, Russian Theatre Abroad, Transcultural Collaborations, Translation, United Kingdom, United States of America
Simplified Production Deserves The Benefit Of The Doubt. Tracy Letts’ adaptation of Chekhov’s 1900...
Read MorePosted by Elinor Fuchs | 4th Feb 2017 | New York, Review, Theatre and Age, United States of America
Last spring, dementia made it to Broadway! Let me be clear: I am an Avant-garde type and I am wary...
Read MorePosted by Jeff Robson | 1st Feb 2017 | Adaptation, Review, United Kingdom
The antithesis of some of the slick, accomplished television premieres of the festive season was...
Read MorePosted by Baharak Sahami | 1st Feb 2017 | Iran, Review
The Kitchen, a one-hour, forty-minute play directed by Mohammad Hassan Ma’jooni, was staged in...
Read MorePosted by Svetlana Ulanovskaya | 31st Jan 2017 | Belarus, Review, Theatre and Dance
During the last decade, two interconnected processes of legalization and professionalization have...
Read MorePosted by Alice Jones | 30th Jan 2017 | London, News, Review, United Kingdom
The Hypocrite Could this be the new One Man, Two Guvnors? Richard Bean is back, with a riotous new...
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