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Wajdi Mouawad’s “Littoral”: Searching for Peace Through the Devastation of War
Sejong Center for the Performing Arts (artistic director, Sun-Woong Koh) staged the play Littoral...
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Back to the Updated Future: Rock Opera “Starmania” – 45th Anniversary
In 1979 the very first French iconic rock opera – Starmania, created by Michel Berger...
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Bell Shakespeare’s New “King Lear” Understands The Joy Of A Good Tragedy
It is a common reflex to reach for Aristotle’s Poetics to determine what a good tragedy should be....
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“Dorian the Musical:” This Rock Adaptation Of Oscar Wilde’s Classic Missteps At Every Turn
In the preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), Oscar Wilde wrote: “There is no such thing as...
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52nd Venice Theatre Biennale (15-30 June). Tim Crouch’s “Truth’s A Dog Must To Kennel”
After Brexit, UK productions very rarely play in Italy, but Biennale theatre directors Gianni...
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Miss Julie: Amy Ng Brings A “Problem Play” To Hong Kong
Amy Ng has a problem. The Hong Kong-raised, London-based playwright is holed up in a Causeway Bay...
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At This Year’s Rising Festival, I Was Most Excited By The New And Unexpected Audiences
Rising situates itself as a festival of new art, performance and music that takes place in the...
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Sydney Theatre Company’s “Dracula”: A Virtuosic Performance, Sexy Staging, And A Queer Rewriting
The figure of Dracula has always lived somewhere between the written word, screen projections and...
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“Cats”: The Jellicle Ball is near Purrfect
Alright, I’ll level with you. Maligned as it is (and oh is it ever) Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1982...
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Adelaide Cabaret Festival Understands How Its Audiences Long For Connection and Community
Now in its 24th year, the Adelaide Cabaret Festival’s annual celebration of all things cabaret...
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Medea as a Border-Body [Part I]
Perhaps the 2024 production of La MaMa’s Medea, under Zishan Ugurlu’s direction and reimagining,...
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To read PART I of this essay, go to this link. The snake that Medea uses to make her...
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“Invisible Lands,” Bodies, Gods, and… People
Invisible Lands, a two-performer act, initially presents itself as a nonverbal production with...
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The Bounds, Royal Court
Every day this week I’m watching a football match, and now — after April’s production of Lydia...
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Water for Elephants: a Musical or a Circus Drama?
Everyone knows that musical is a synthetic genre in which a story is being told by means of...
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New Play “American Signs” Looks At The Nefarious World Of Consultancies – But Leaves Australia Off The Hook
Anchuli Felicia King’s new one-performer piece, American Signs, written for the talented Catherine...
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“Pericles” – An Odyssey from Timișoara
Depicting an odyssey on stage is rather a challenge, especially when the main means of transport...
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“Youth Without God;” Unkind, Realistic Reminder
TESZT 2024 brings, from Zagreb Youth Theatre, Borut Šeparović’s production Youth Without God, on a...
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