Fake News and Propaganda Machines: New Theatre Production Pulls “Animal Farm” into the Now
In 1937, George Orwell witnessed a boy whipping a horse. This was a catalyst for his novel Animal...
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Heaven Isn’t Too Far away; It’s in Downtown Houston at TUTS’ “Rock of Ages”
I have to confess something. I haven’t really missed theatre since the Covid-19 pandemic forced...
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A Lady with a Machine Gun
Belarusian theatre hibernated since the notorious events of 2020. The artistic quality of most of...
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Met Opera Returns with History-making Debut by Terence Blanchard
The Metropolitan Opera, which was closed after the coronavirus broke out in New York in March...
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“These Are Not My Shoes” is Powerful Social Commentary
These Are Not My Shoes is a story about absent fathers and what happens to young men when they...
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Hilary Mantel and Ben Miles’s The Mirror and the Light at the Gielgud Theatre: Engaging, but Rather Low Key
This is a labor of love. Hilary Mantel has adapted The Mirror and the Light, the third novel of...
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Tang Kwong-San’s Quest to Understand Hong Kong
When Tang Kwong-san and fellow Hong Kong artist Yuen Nga-chi first visited Tung Ping Chau a few...
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A Memory Palace on Tauris: Reprise of Gluck’s Iphégenie en Tauride at the Paris Opera
Gluck’s Iphégenie en Tauride doesn’t waste any time ushering the viewer into its mystical score....
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“The Last Trial” Musical: There Once Was a Wizard, a Servant of Night
The poets say that Love will be the world’s great redeemer, But love is rarely quite as pure as...
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“Text Me When You Arrive” is Witty, Punchy, and Hard-Hitting!
In a normal country, plays like Text Me When You Arrive, which has just ended a short run at the...
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Review: “UnTuned” (Golvareh)
It’s hard to prepare for life’s high and lows when you think too highly of yourself to expect...
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“The Time of Our Singing” Opera Tackles Racial Segregation
Based on an American novel detailing the country’s troubled 20th century, the new Belgian...
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Bess Wohl’s “Camp Siegfried” at the Old Vic: Powerfully Chilling and Resonant
Are we too obsessed with Nazism? Apart from countless television programs which revisit that grim...
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Divas Are Forever: Marina Abramović’s “7 Deaths of Maria Callas”
Does a diva ever really die? It’s a fitting question from the reigning queen of endurance art,...
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Playing with “White is Purity” in Pirandello’s “Comme tu me veux”
In 2017, the cosmetics company Nivea released an advert that was promptly pulled: a white woman’s...
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Rockets and Blue Lights, National Theatre
For more than three decades, playwright Winsome Pinnock has been at the forefront of new writing,...
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The Barber of Seville
The production of The Barber of Seville by Teatro Nuovo overcame the restrictions of the covid-era...
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Subira, A New Musical: Under-promised, Over-delivered!
‘Time waits for no military man!’. Thus, on a punctual note, Subira, A New Musical opened on...
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“RashDash: Look at Me, Don’t Look at Me,” Paines Plough Roundabout
Imagine you suffered terrible injustices that in your day and age were just the norm, that your...
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“An Odyssey” at Quantum Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA
Imagine, if you will, one of those old-fashioned TV game shows with two doors. Behind Door Number...
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