“Come From Away” – New Canadian Musical on Broadway
Come From Away, a relentlessly peppy new musical by the Canadian husband-wife team David Hein and...
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“Speed Show: Drifting Internet Café”: Diary of a Cyborg Theatre Production in Beijing
In Shuzo Oshimi’s comic series, Drifting Net Café, the protagonist runs into his first love from...
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“Wither on the Vine” Showcases an Environmental Immersive Theatre
Something absolutely terrific happened at Tai Lam Interchange Tunnel Farm in Hong Kong last...
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Review: “Sex With Strangers” at Hampsted Theatre
The current crisis in British new writing for the theatre is exemplified by the reliance of so...
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“Escaped Alone”: Catastrophe and Fear Meet Surrealism
Like Beckett and Pinter, Caryl Churchill is writing fugues in old age (she’s 77). Far Away, A...
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Review: “Low Level Panic” at Orange Tree Theatre
The 1980s were a great decade for British women playwrights. During those Thatcher-dominated...
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Review: Wallance Shawn’s “Evening at the Talk House”
Is it a good or bad thing for a dyed-in-the-wool dystopian like Wallace Shawn when real life...
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“Red”: Using the Body to Touch The Contemporaneity of the Past
Red, a documentary play created by Wen Hui’s Living Dance Studio, is based on Red Detachment of...
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Women on the Verge: Caryl Churchill’s “Escaped Alone”
In an 1896 essay on “The Tragic in Daily Life,” the Symbolist playwright Maurice Maeterlinck...
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“Killer” – An Experiential Thriller
One of the reasons that Philip Ridley is the crown prince of imaginative playwriting is that he...
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“Us/Them” Explores Exclusion And How Children Cope
How do you stage appalling real-life events? I mean, without either being too luridly voyeuristic...
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Yan Pat-to’s “A Concise History of Future” by Reframe Theatre & Felixism Creation Premiered in Hong Kong
A Concise History of Future, Yan Pat-to’s new Berlin Theatertreffen Stückemarkt award-winning...
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Anthony Burgess’ “A Clockwork Orange” at Park Theatre
There are few modern literary fables that really resonate in the wider culture. And most that do...
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“Years of Sunlight” at Theatre 503
The new writing year has started slowly. Apart from a couple of obscure fringe shows, there have...
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“Little Emperors” Brings China’s One-Child Policy to the Stage
China’s one-child policy officially ended in 2016. Little Emperors, currently showing at...
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“Dubailand” – A Story About Globalization and Social Justice
Young British writers are often surprisingly unadventurous when it comes to locating their plays...
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“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,...
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Death on the Rialto: Wallace Shawn’s “Evening at the Talk House”
As goes the theater, so goes civilization. In Wallace Shawn’s Evening at the Talk House the demise...
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Roland Schimmelpfennig’s “Winter Solstice” Probes the Lure of Fascism
A day or so after Theresa May’s keynote speech about Brexit the words Europe and European carry an...
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Theatre Review: Matei Visniec’s “What Shall We Do With The Cello?”–The Self-Versus-Everyone Of The Communist Era
In a way, communism has always been playing on the masses. There are endless things hidden within...
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