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There Is No Friendship In Politics: “Limehouse” Appeals To The Politically Prone

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 27th Mar 2017 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom

Politics is a serious business, but it’s also a fun spectator sport. Think of the duels in Prime...

Understated Risk-Taking in Beckettian “Wakey, Wakey”

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 26th Mar 2017 | New York, Review, Theatre and Disability, United States of America

Audacious risk-taking in the theater comes in many colors, most of them loud. You can defy a...

Kama Ginkas’ “The Black Monk”

Posted by Sarah Clovis Bishop | 22nd Mar 2017 | Kama Ginkas Black Monk, Review, Russia

While at his family estate in Melikhovo in the early 1890s, Anton Chekhov dreamt of a monk...

Theatre Review: “The Little Prince” An Inventive Russian Take On Saint-Exupéry’s Modern Classic

Posted by Andreea Scridon | 22nd Mar 2017 | Adaptation, Review, Russia, Russian Theatre Abroad

The Little Prince–the classic novella by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry–is about a pilot stranded in the...

Review: “In the Steps of the Ballets Russes: Russian Ballet Icons”

Posted 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...

“The Pitchfork Disney” at Shoreditch Town Hall

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 19th Mar 2017 | London, Review, United Kingdom

Playwright Philip Ridley has one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary theatre. His...

Love Revolution: The Assembly’s “Home/Sick”

Posted 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...

Masami Teraoka + Pussy Riot Choreographer Viktoria Naraxsa in Hawaii

Posted 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...

“My Country; A Work in Progress” – The First Brexit Play at the National Theatre

Posted 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...

“Come From Away” – New Canadian Musical on Broadway

Posted 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...

“Speed Show: Drifting Internet Café”: Diary of a Cyborg Theatre Production in Beijing

Posted 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...

“Wither on the Vine” Showcases an Environmental Immersive Theatre

Posted 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...

Review: “Sex With Strangers” at Hampsted Theatre

Posted 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...

“Escaped Alone”: Catastrophe and Fear Meet Surrealism

Posted 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...

Review: “Low Level Panic” at Orange Tree Theatre

Posted 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...

Review: Wallance Shawn’s “Evening at the Talk House”

Posted 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...

“Red”: Using the Body to Touch The Contemporaneity of the Past

Posted 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...

Women on the Verge: Caryl Churchill’s “Escaped Alone”

Posted 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...

“Killer” – An Experiential Thriller

Posted 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...

“Us/Them” Explores Exclusion And How Children Cope

Posted 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...

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Review

Understated Risk-Taking in Beckettian “Wakey, Wakey”

Kama Ginkas’ “The Black Monk”

Theatre Review: “The Little Prince” An Inventive Russian Take On Saint-Exupéry’s Modern Classic

Review: “In the Steps of the Ballets Russes: Russian Ballet Icons”

“The Pitchfork Disney” at Shoreditch Town Hall

Love Revolution: The Assembly’s “Home/Sick”

Masami Teraoka + Pussy Riot Choreographer Viktoria Naraxsa in Hawaii

“My Country; A Work in Progress” – The First Brexit Play at the National Theatre

“Come From Away” – New Canadian Musical on Broadway

“Speed Show: Drifting Internet Café”: Diary of a Cyborg Theatre Production in Beijing

“Wither on the Vine” Showcases an Environmental Immersive Theatre

Review: “Sex With Strangers” at Hampsted Theatre

“Escaped Alone”: Catastrophe and Fear Meet Surrealism

Review: “Low Level Panic” at Orange Tree Theatre

Review: Wallance Shawn’s “Evening at the Talk House”

“Red”: Using the Body to Touch The Contemporaneity of the Past

Women on the Verge: Caryl Churchill’s “Escaped Alone”

“Killer” – An Experiential Thriller

“Us/Them” Explores Exclusion And How Children Cope

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