China’s “Cherry Orchard”
“Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress,” said Anton Chekhov (1860-1904), “when...
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Review
Can Keene/Taylor’s New Play “Dreamers” Keep Us From Despair?
More than ten years after the last production by the Keene/Taylor Theatre Project (KTTP),...
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Unifying Shakespeare: Globe Theatre’s Russian Tour Ends On Thrilling Note
Visit closes with Moscow performances of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. London’s Globe...
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The Mariinsky Dramatizes Difference With A Wry Look At The “Two Camps”
St. Petersburg company returns to the UK with classic works contrasting Russian characters with...
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Striking, Original Theatre: Heiner Goebbels At The Melbourne Festival
When the Mountain Changed its Clothing, the Heiner Goebbels-directed show currently on at the...
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Big hART’s “Hipbone Sticking Out”: Truthful And Ambitious Theatre
Hipbone Sticking Out, the Big hART production now playing at the Melbourne Festival, begins in...
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Vladimir Sorokin Takes The Stage
The premier of Telluria caused little controversy when it opened in St. Petersburg. Maybe Russian...
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“The Complexity Of Belonging” At The Melbourne Festival–Reviewed
I’ve often lamented that choosing to study the most complex organisms on Earth was the dumbest...
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“Black Diggers”: Out Of The Trenches At The Brisbane Festival
The performance space in which Wesley Enoch‘s play Black Diggers is being performed at the...
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St. Petersburg’s Alexandrinsky Theater Opens New Stage With Production Of “Telluria”
The illustrious theater’s New Stage will present its season opener on September 26. The...
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“I Am Me” Returns to Brooklyn After Russia
Raphael Schklowsky writes about Nicole Kontolefa, an American actress trained in Russia, who is...
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“Soap”: A Sexy Night On The Tiles At The Brisbane Festival
Traditionally soap is made by rendering down lard. But in this tight show, Soap, playing at the...
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A Static “Ivanov” At Theaterfestival Basel
“Alienation” drones Ivanov’s English-learning tape in the second act of the production. The...
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Blood Orange Overplays Scottish Far Right At The Fringe
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe has, over the years, developed a reputation as a hotbed for...
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Mayakovsky At Carriageworks: A Telegram From An Alien Future
“I’m a poet. That’s what makes me interesting.” So begins the autobiography of Vladimir...
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Hugo Weaving Reveals Macbeth’s Weakness–And His Unhappiness
Sydney Theatre Company’s new production of Macbeth may draw attention for its star, Hugo Weaving,...
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Cath Day Reviews David Schneider’s “Making Stalin Laugh”: At JW3
David Schneider is probably most recognizable as BBC commissioning editor Tony Hayers in I’m Alan...
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“Henry V” Meets The London Blitz And Brings The House Down
Bell Shakespeare’s new production of William Shakespeare’s Henry V–which opened in Canberra on...
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Robin Ashenden Reviews “Bloody East Europeans” By Uilleam Blacker And Molodyi Teatr
In Warwickshire a year ago, a fish-farmer was reported in the newspapers as putting a sign up by...
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Natalya Vorozhbit Writes Verbatim “Maidan” Play
Natalya Vorozhbit is Ukraine’s leading playwright and co-author of Maidan: Voices from the...
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