Understated Risk-Taking in Beckettian “Wakey, Wakey”
Audacious risk-taking in the theater comes in many colors, most of them loud. You can defy a...
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Kama Ginkas’ “The Black Monk”
While at his family estate in Melikhovo in the early 1890s, Anton Chekhov dreamt of a monk...
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Theatre Review: “The Little Prince” An Inventive Russian Take On Saint-Exupéry’s Modern Classic
The Little Prince–the classic novella by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry–is about a pilot stranded in the...
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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...
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“The Pitchfork Disney” at Shoreditch Town Hall
Playwright Philip Ridley has one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary theatre. His...
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Love Revolution: The Assembly’s “Home/Sick”
Commitment is hard. Even within the well-defined parameters of traditional monogamy, balancing the...
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Masami Teraoka + Pussy Riot Choreographer Viktoria Naraxsa in Hawaii
Internationally acclaimed Japanese-American visual artist Masami Teraoka invited Pussy Riot...
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“My Country; A Work in Progress” – The First Brexit Play at the National Theatre
Oh dear. The first play explicitly about Brexit is being staged by the National Theatre in a...
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“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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