Review: “In the Steps of the Ballets Russes: Russian Ballet Icons”
A Spectacular Celebration Of The Russian Tradition The memories of the magical evening with Moscow...
Read MorePosted by Russian Art + Culture | 19th Mar 2017 | Review, Russia, Theatre and Dance
A Spectacular Celebration Of The Russian Tradition The memories of the magical evening with Moscow...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 19th Mar 2017 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Playwright Philip Ridley has one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary theatre. His...
Read MorePosted by Jessica Rizzo | 17th Mar 2017 | New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Commitment is hard. Even within the well-defined parameters of traditional monogamy, balancing the...
Read MorePosted by Lauren Deutsch | 16th Mar 2017 | Hawaii, Participatory Theatre, Review, Russia, Theatre and Art, Transcultural Collaborations, United States of America
Internationally acclaimed Japanese-American visual artist Masami Teraoka invited Pussy Riot...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 14th Mar 2017 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Oh dear. The first play explicitly about Brexit is being staged by the National Theatre in a...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 14th Mar 2017 | Canada, Musical Theatre, Review
Come From Away, a relentlessly peppy new musical by the Canadian husband-wife team David Hein and...
Read MorePosted by Sun Xiaoxing | 12th Mar 2017 | China, Review, Transmedia
In Shuzo Oshimi’s comic series, Drifting Net Café, the protagonist runs into his first love from...
Read MorePosted by Clement Lee | 8th Mar 2017 | China, Hong Kong, Immersive Theatre, Review
Something absolutely terrific happened at Tai Lam Interchange Tunnel Farm in Hong Kong last...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 8th Mar 2017 | London, Review, United Kingdom
The current crisis in British new writing for the theatre is exemplified by the reliance of so...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 8th Mar 2017 | Review, Theatre and Age, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Like Beckett and Pinter, Caryl Churchill is writing fugues in old age (she’s 77). Far Away, A...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 6th Mar 2017 | Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
The 1980s were a great decade for British women playwrights. During those Thatcher-dominated...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 6th Mar 2017 | New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Is it a good or bad thing for a dyed-in-the-wool dystopian like Wallace Shawn when real life...
Read MorePosted by Zhuang Jiayun | 6th Mar 2017 | China, Review, Theatre and Dance
Red, a documentary play created by Wen Hui’s Living Dance Studio, is based on Red Detachment of...
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...
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