The Threepenny Non-Opera
Brecht and Weill’s Threepenny Opera is much more of a musical than an opera. But it decidedly...
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Review
Every Detail Counts In “Wot? No Fish!!” At Sydney Festival
During an artist talk just an hour before performing Wot? No Fish!! on Saturday at the Sydney...
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Moscow’s Oddest Puppet Theater: Ambulances, Shakespeare Menus, And Lilikans
At the Ten’ (Shadow’) puppet theater in Moscow, audiences can watch plays in miniature or...
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Tena Štivičić’s “3 Winters” At The Royal National Theatre, Reviewed By Evgeniya Yarkova
3 Winters at the Royal National Theatre tells the 60-year story of a Croatian family living in...
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Staging Power: David Williamson’s Portrait Of Citizen Murdoch
The Melbourne Theatre Company’s (MTC) production of David Williamson’s 2013 play Rupert has...
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“Venus in Furs” at The Budapest English Theatre
Venus in Fur, the collaborative performance of the Budapest English Theatre and the Prague...
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“Dangerous Acts Starring The Unstable Elements Of Belarus”: Review By Jesse Kirkwood
“Belarus is not sexy. Sexy countries have oil, gas, diamonds, sea, mountains … Belarus has...
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Pinchgut’s “Iphigénie En Tauride”: A Work Of Pure Theatrical Magic
In any Opera History 101 course, Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787) is cited as one of the...
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China’s “Cherry Orchard”
“Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress,” said Anton Chekhov (1860-1904), “when...
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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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