Follies and Murder Ballads and Extinction, Oh My!: New York City Fringe 2024
2024’s New York City Fringe has come to an end, eighteen nights of shows enjoyable, waspish,...
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New Play “The Exact Dimensions of Hell” Explores The Chaos And Contradiction Of Teenage Girlhood – And Witchcraft
The relationship between witchcraft and teenage girls has been the subject of many books, films...
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“Without a State:” a Collision Between Migration and the Perpetual Pursuit of Identity and Belonging
Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) is still in the hands of Britain, the colonial power, and several...
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“London Tide,” National Theatre
“He do the police in different voices.” If ever one phrase summed up a work of fiction, and the...
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“That Perfect Dark”: Samuel Beckett’s “Company” in Dunedin
The southern city of Ōtepoti/Dunedin has played an important role in the history of Samuel Beckett...
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The Comeuppance, Almeida Theatre
I’ve never been one for school reunions, but even if I had kept in touch with former classmates I...
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‘Strong Theatre With Unwavering Precision’: Into The Shimmering World Asks Us What Does It Mean To Be Good?
Angus Cerini’s Into the Shimmering World is an unforgiving and, frankly, bleak meditation on what...
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Anything Can Be Bought If The Price Is Right: Juan Mayorga’s “La Colección” (The Collection)
Juan Mayorga might have been a crime writer in another life, he loves to set up complex, menacing...
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Who’s Afraid of Thomas Stockmann?
The last time Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People (1882) made a big splash in New York was in 2013,...
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Staging Justice: Miguel del Arco revisits Jordi Casanovas’ “Jauría” and the case of “la manada” (the wolfpack)
Seeing a play you much admired five years ago for a third time isn’t always sensible. Will it be...
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The Silent Service of Women: Cayenne Douglass’s “Maiden Voyage” at The Flea
“What kind of service do submarines provide?” asks the machine’s captain, Ricky Martin. “Silent...
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“Teeth” Bites Back Against Purity Culture: On Michael R. Jackson and Anna K. Jacob’s Musical
Last year I went to the dentist for a toothache and was told that somehow, to my extreme...
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“Brother-Brother” by Cheta Igbokwe: A Quest for Long Lives Leads to Quick Deaths
Nigerian playwright, Cheta Igbokwe, is a prolific young writer. This I find amazing, especially...
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Love, Loss And Tears – But Also Laughter: Belvoir’s Compelling And Skilful Staging Of “Holding The Man”
Walking through Chippendale on my way to Sydney’s Belvoir Street Theatre, where this production of...
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The Ally at the Public Theater in New York: Back to the Agora
Can one truly be sympathetic until the ultimate consequences to the problems of someone who is not...
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Doubtless Doubt
Whatever your opinion of the profundity of John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer- and Tony-winning 2005...
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“I Killed My Mother/It Wasn’t My Fault.” Which Way Does One Get to Come-of-Age?
The question of universality faces entire series of utterly new answers, but not all of them find...
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A Triple Bill on Desire and its Discontents: “La Voix Humaine”, “Erwartung” and Something in Between at Madrid’s Teatro Real
There are a number of firsts in the new Teatro Real production triple bill that brings together...
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Alfredo Sanzol Stages Lorca’s “The House of Bernarda Alba”: Simmering Passions, Solitude and Surveillance
The 2023/2024 season has proved the year of Bernarda Albas. Lorca’s 1936 drama was completed only...
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Respect And Disrespect Clash Throughout 37 – A Brilliant New Play Exploring Australian Rules Football
Guernsey number 37 belonged to Aboriginal star football player Adam Goodes when he played for...
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