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“The Mecca Tales” in New York

Posted by Jack Wernick | 4th Nov 2017 | New York, Review, Transcultural Collaborations, United States of America

The Mecca Tales is an essential new work of theatre by emerging Chicago-based playwright Rohina...

Dana Michel’s “Mercurial George” – Illegibility, Identity, Blackness

Posted by Anh Vo | 3rd Nov 2017 | Canada, Festivals, Review, Theatre and Dance

Illegibility, Identity, Blackness The lack of black choreographers/ black voices in Contemporary...

Politics, Human Rights And Social Activism: “Pista Rizalina” At The Cultural Center Of The Philippines

Posted by Sir Anril Pineda Tiatco | 3rd Nov 2017 | Festivals, Philippines, Review, Theatre and Politics

On September 21, 1972, then President Ferdinand Marcos declared Martial Law via Presidential...

David Greenspan Dazzles In One-Man “Strange Interlude”

Posted by Jessica Rizzo | 2nd Nov 2017 | Adaptation, New York, Review, United States of America

After his one visit to the country in 1909, Sigmund Freud reportedly remarked to a friend that...

Family, Latinidad, and Queerness Coalesce In Marga Gomez’s “Latin Standards”

Posted by Trevor Boffone | 2nd Nov 2017 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, Playwriting, Review, United States of America

Marga Gomez began her career in San Francisco’s gay comedy clubs in the mid-1980s, including the...

TotoToo’s production of “Bent” – On Being Gay in Nazi Germany

Posted by Jamie Portman | 1st Nov 2017 | Canada, LGBTQ+ Theatre, Review, Theatre and Politics

There are moments in TotoToo’s production of Bent that are as good as anything that this...

Big Bang: “Germinal” Creates a Universe Out of Nothing On Stage

Posted by Jana Perkovic | 1st Nov 2017 | Australia, Festivals, Melbourne, Playwriting, Review

In theatre-making, we often talk about world creation. “What is the world of the play?” teachers...

“Saint George and the Dragon” at The National Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 1st Nov 2017 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom

In Bertolt Brecht’s Life of Galileo (1943), there’s a typically didactic exchange: Andrea, the...

A New Adaptation of Kalidasa’s “Shakuntala” – A Soul Stirring Experience

Posted by Diwan Singh Bajeli | 31st Oct 2017 | Adaptation, India, Review

Chandradasan’s adaptation of Shakuntalam, staged at the National School of Drama, had a...

Mike Bartlett’s “Albion” at Almeida Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 31st Oct 2017 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom

Prolific writer Mike Bartlett is the most impressive penman to have emerged in British theatre in...

David Greenspan’s One-Man, 6-Hour Performance of Eugene O’Neill’s “Strange Interlude”

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 30th Oct 2017 | Acting, Review, United States of America

The most interesting question about David Greenspan’s one-man, 6-hour performance of Eugene...

Life In The West End’s Second Best Historical Musical “The End of History”

Posted by Iain Hollingshead | 30th Oct 2017 | London, Musical Theatre, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom

Last month, 1,601 people were left disappointed by the news that Hamilton, the American musical...

Adaptation of Patrice Lumumba’s Life Plays on Indian Stage

Posted by S. Ravi | 30th Oct 2017 | Adaptation, India, Review, Theatre and Politics

Based on a short story of Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, Lokesh Jain’s Kala Sooraj Safed Sayee brings the...

Come On A My House: “Fireflies” at The Long Wharf Theatre

Posted by Donald Brown | 29th Oct 2017 | Adaptation, Review, Theatre and Age, United States of America

The kitchen of an aging spinster in a small town in Texas may be an unlikely place to find...

“Of Kith And Kin” at The Bush Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 29th Oct 2017 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, London, Review, United Kingdom

A new baby is like an alien invasion: it blows your mind and it colonizes your world. For any...

Ensconced In A Time Warp: The Plays Within The Film

Posted by Vikram Phukan | 29th Oct 2017 | India, Review, Theatre and Film

CRD, the recently released film directed by Kranti Kanadé, starts right off the bat with auditions...

In Beirut, Play About Syrian War Gets As Close To Home As It Can

Posted by Daily Sabah | 29th Oct 2017 | Lebanon, Review, Syria, Theatre and Politics

A play about Syria’s war, told through one family’s tragedy, made its Lebanon debut on...

“Die Reuk Van Appels” (“The Smell Of Apples”) at the Fugard Theatre in Cape Town

Posted 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...

Eurydice Among the Shades – Elfriede Jelinek’s “Shadow. Eurydice Says” in NYC

Posted 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...

“Bright Star” Shines It’s Light on The Ahmanson, Los Angeles

Posted 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...

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Review

“The Mecca Tales” in New York

Dana Michel’s “Mercurial George” – Illegibility, Identity, Blackness

David Greenspan Dazzles In One-Man “Strange Interlude”

Family, Latinidad, and Queerness Coalesce In Marga Gomez’s “Latin Standards”

TotoToo’s production of “Bent” – On Being Gay in Nazi Germany

Big Bang: “Germinal” Creates a Universe Out of Nothing On Stage

“Saint George and the Dragon” at The National Theatre

A New Adaptation of Kalidasa’s “Shakuntala” – A Soul Stirring Experience

Mike Bartlett’s “Albion” at Almeida Theatre

David Greenspan’s One-Man, 6-Hour Performance of Eugene O’Neill’s “Strange Interlude”

Life In The West End’s Second Best Historical Musical “The End of History”

Adaptation of Patrice Lumumba’s Life Plays on Indian Stage

Come On A My House: “Fireflies” at The Long Wharf Theatre

“Of Kith And Kin” at The Bush Theatre

Ensconced In A Time Warp: The Plays Within The Film

In Beirut, Play About Syrian War Gets As Close To Home As It Can

“Die Reuk Van Appels” (“The Smell Of Apples”) at the Fugard Theatre in Cape Town

Eurydice Among the Shades – Elfriede Jelinek’s “Shadow. Eurydice Says” in NYC

“Bright Star” Shines It’s Light on The Ahmanson, Los Angeles

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