“Champion” – Scenes From a Boxer’s Life, A New Opera
In an inviting, Frank Lloyd Wright-designed venue, New Yorkers finally got a sampling of Champion,...
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...
Read MorePosted by Rachel E. Diken | 28th Jan 2017 | New York, Review, United States of America
A brief—dashed, if you will—argument for the relevance, humanness, and endearment of themes in...
Read MorePosted by Ramona Taranu | 28th Jan 2017 | Japan, Review
Current Location (Genzaichi in Japanese), written and directed by Okada Toshiki, founder of the...
Read MorePosted by Mara Valderrama | 28th Jan 2017 | Review, Spain, Theatre and Gender
TNT El Vacie is one of the most unique theatre companies in Spain. This group of Gypsy illiterate...
Read MorePosted by Maria Pia Pagani | 27th Jan 2017 | Review, Russia
Born in Kharkov on 12 November 1937, Mikhail Berman-Tsikinovsky is a Russian-speaking émigré who...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 27th Jan 2017 | Adaptation, Review, United Kingdom
Theatre conventions are a funny thing. Nowadays, it’s actually quite difficult to see a modern...
Read MorePosted by Kristof Van Baarle | 22nd Jan 2017 | Belgium, Immersive Theatre, Review, Transmedia
In this time of superdiversity, with different cultures and strata of the population living...
Read MorePosted by Andrea Pelegri Kristić | 20th Jan 2017 | Chile, Festivals, Germany, Review, Transcultural Collaborations, Translation
On July 4th, 1999, almost 1700 low-income families in Peñalolén, Santiago de Chile illegally...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 19th Jan 2017 | Review, Theatre and Disability, United Kingdom
You could call it the Corbynisation of new writing. In the past couple of years, a series of plays...
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