Six-Hour Tour De Force “Hamlet” In Hamburg, Directed, With Many Ironic Self-References, By Veteran Legendary Frank Castorf
This six-hour production of Hamlet took Shakespeare’s play as the starting and end point, in...
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LegalAlien’s “The Flowers of Srebrenica”: Theatre as Healing
The Flowers of Srebrenica should be impossible to stage. Irish academic Aidan Hehir’s book, a...
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Nick Payne’s “The Unbelievers” at the Royal Court Theatre: Latest Play By A Top New Writer Is Disappointingly Unfocused
The Royal Court, Britain’s premiere new writing venue, celebrates its platinum anniversary next...
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Barbarians in Midtown
The Terrence McNally/Stephen Flaherty/Lynn Ahrens musical Ragtime is not the subtlest theater...
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“All Right. Good Night.:” A Poetic Meditation on the Art of Letting Go
In All Right. Good Night., German docu-theater artist Helgard Haug turns loss into a language. The...
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Bloody Ignorant Apes
Absurd as it may seem, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, a demanding play about existential...
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Taking A Hit
James Graham’s play Punch tells the true story of a shiftless, belligerent rowdy who heedlessly...
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“Lale Lili Marleen:” The Promising Relaunch Of A Quaint Chamber Theatre In The Oldest District Of Bremen
The small district of Schnoor in the northern German city of Bremen, consisting of some 100...
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Welcome To The Machine
Among the most depressing facets of Donald Trump’s pathology is how all-consuming his hunger for...
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James Graham’s “Punch” at the Apollo Theatre: Compelling And Emotionally Intense Account Of Restorative Justice
Broken Britain has a big problem with youth. About a million of those aged 16 to 24 are NEETs (not...
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“Full Moon” by Josef Nadj at the Festival of International Alternative Theatre (FIAT) in Montenegro
“By the term theatre we do not only mean its expressive linguistic side, but also the cultural,...
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Conor McPherson’s “The Weir” at the Harold Pinter Theatre: Beautifully Acted Revival Of A 1990s New Writing Classic
Perhaps it’s an indicator of the feebleness of new writing after the pandemic that so many of the...
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Cruelty, Guilt, And Redemption Intertwine In “The Mutt” At IATI Theater
With minimal décor and symbolism in every gesture, The Mutt — an adaptation of Dostoevsky’s The...
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Violence and Therapy: 29th International Shakespeare Festival in Gdańsk, Poland, 2025
The International Shakespeare Festival in Gdańsk is not the festival of masterpieces and it never...
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Lessing’s “Emilia Galotti” As Directorial Debut In Bremen
At German theatres, some assistant directors are employed for the duration of a production, from...
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Shakespeare In The Park At The New Delacorte Theater: Love Is Gender Fluid
In a world where the rule is to make huge efforts to attain an “effortless, relaxed” look, the new...
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Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 in 22 Shows
This year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe was as sprawling and invigorating as ever, and expectedly...
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“When Billy Met Alasdair” At The Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025
Writer-actor Alan Bissett’s When Billy met Alasdair imagines what happened when Alasdair Gray...
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German Summer Festival Theatre (2): Domfestspiele Verden, “Die Zündholzfrau”
In 1997, an association was founded in the German city of Verden on the river Aller, located...
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“No Apologies” by Emma Frankland, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025
Emma Frankland’s No Apologies achieves something genuinely rare: a radical reimagining that...
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