British New Writing In An Age Of Austerity
Friday, May 7, 2010; Brixton, south London; darkest night. Early dawn touches a Victorian terraced...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 12th Dec 2017 | Essay, London, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Friday, May 7, 2010; Brixton, south London; darkest night. Early dawn touches a Victorian terraced...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 12th Dec 2017 | Immersive Theatre, India, Review
Earlier this year, as a whimsical Valentine’s Week Special targeted the blissfully single rather...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 11th Dec 2017 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
The political story of our time is the upsurge in support for Jeremy Corbyn, leftwing leader of...
Read MorePosted by Jessica Rizzo | 10th Dec 2017 | France, Review
If theater could save the world, it would no doubt do so under the exacting direction of Arianne...
Read MorePosted by Um Hyun-hee | 9th Dec 2017 | Documentary Theatre, LGBTQ Theatre, Review, South Korea, Theatre and Gender
Namsan Arts Center’s 2017 season opened with Censoring the Minority 2017 (written and directed by...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 8th Dec 2017 | Belgium, New York, Review, United States of America
Toward the end of the fourth and final hour of Ivo van Hove’s interminable adaptation of Ayn...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 8th Dec 2017 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Who will watch the watchers? As Sir Francis Walsingham, Queen Elizabeth I’s spymaster, says, in...
Read MorePosted by David O'Donnell | 7th Dec 2017 | New Zealand, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
For the past two years, Samoan playwright Victor Rodger has been tireless in bringing plays by...
Read MorePosted by Alvina Ruprecht | 6th Dec 2017 | Canada, Israel, Review, Theatre and Dance
This latest work by the Israeli dance company LEV Dance, created by Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar is a...
Read MorePosted by Vivienne Glance | 4th Dec 2017 | Adaptation, Australia, Review
The popularity of vampires has endured since Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Bride of Corinth (1797)...
Read MorePosted by Julia Secklehner | 3rd Dec 2017 | Adaptation, Belarus, Review
Svetlana Alexievich’s Voices From Chernobyl collected the testimonies of survivors from the...
Read MorePosted by Shelley Liebembuk | 3rd Dec 2017 | Canada, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Gender
In his debut as playwright, Jeff Ho presents a solo piece that explores his family history through...
Read MorePosted by Dena Al-Adeeb | 3rd Dec 2017 | Iraq, Review, Theatre and Film
The Taste of Displacement (2014) is a video project and an experimental performance piece that...
Read MorePosted by Baharak Sahami | 2nd Dec 2017 | Directing, Iran, Review
Mrs. Pistols is an outstanding example of an Iranian play that meets the intellectual and...
Read MorePosted by Davide Cioffrese | 1st Dec 2017 | Italy, Review, Theatre and Politics
Sam Mendes–Oscar-winning Sam Mendes (American Beauty [1999])–has confirmed it: in 2018, he will be...
Read MorePosted by Leigh Boucher | 30th Nov 2017 | Australia, Musical Theatre, Review
Muriel Heslop occupies a precious position in Australian cultural life. She is, perhaps, our...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 29th Nov 2017 | Acting, Directing, Japan, Review
As the saying goes, “You can’t judge a book by its cover.” In the same way, if you thought the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 29th Nov 2017 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, Ukraine, United Kingdom
War is morally acidic: it dissolves social rules, loosens inhibitions and gives permission to men...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 28th Nov 2017 | New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Julia Cho’s Office Hour began life as a reaction to the 2007 mass-shooting at Virginia Tech. It...
Read MorePosted by Zolima Citymag | 28th Nov 2017 | China, Hong Kong, Review, Theatre and Art, Theatre and Film
Among Hong Kong’s artists, designers, playwrights and stage directors are polymaths who somehow...
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