Dostoevsky on Stage. “The Mutt” by Anoushka Nesterova and Elena Che at the IATI Theater, New York
Dostoevsky is hard to read, harder to translate, and even harder to adapt for stage. The Mutt by...
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Biography And Politics: “Der Zauberer Von Öz – Eine Fußballtragödie“ In Bremen
Theater Bremen is currently showing the world premiere production of Der Zauberer von Öz – Eine...
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“A Working Class Hero” – Identity And Class at Voila! Theatre Festival
Representation in the performing arts in the UK is in crisis. For years, voices have been warning...
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Adaptations On The German Stage (2): “Der Schimmelreiter” In Oldenburg
Der Schimmelreiter (The Rider on the White Horse) is a novella by German writer Theodor Storm...
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“Aşınma” (“Corrosion”): A Solo Masterpiece About The Contemporary Human
In October 2025, Battersea Arts Centre hosted Aşınma (Corrosion) – a multi-award-winning theatre...
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Evil Can Appear Beautiful
Two major productions of Richard III are touring Italy in the present season, a sign perhaps that...
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#Me Too Oedipus
The British directing star Robert Icke specializes in contemporary adaptations of classics. He...
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Dimension Zero: All Judy, No Punch
Dimension Zero, the new sci-fi puppet musical from the Boxcutter Collective, arrives at HERE arts...
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Dupes of Hazard
The farcical premise of Rajiv Joseph’s play Archduke—just opened at the Roundabout’s Laura Pels...
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Nearly Finished
With a depressingly vacuous, celebrity-circus Waiting for Godot sucking up so much oxygen on...
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3sisters at the Novi Sad Theatre
Before the audience of the play 3sisters, with their eyes wide open, a music box, the girls on...
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Jack Holden’s The Line of Beauty at the Almeida Theatre: A Subtle And Appealing Adaptation Of A Modern Classic 1980s Story
Thatcher, and the image of Thatcher’s Britain, continues to cast a long shadow over contemporary...
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Checking The Boxes
I went to Caroline Guiela Nguyen’s Lacrima at BAM with great eagerness and curiosity. This was a...
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FITPTI – International Festival For Young Audiences 2025 – A Northeastern Romanian Story
In Romanian culture, a vital coming-of-age moment for every teenager is their eighteenth birthday,...
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Tanika Gupta’s “Hedda” at the Orange Tree Theatre: A Fresh And Fascinating Reinterpretation Of A Classic Which Foregrounds The Issues Of Race And Empire
In 2023, Malaysian actor Michelle Yeoh won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance in...
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The Queen of Versailles Musical or the Funeral of the “American dream.”
The Queen of Versailles. A New Musical will officially open on Broadway, at the St. James Theatre...
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Adaptations On The German Stage (1): “Sein Oder Nicht Sein” In Bremerhaven
Sein oder nicht sein is a play by Nick Whitby (b.1963), premiered on Broadway in 2008, and first...
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Meghan Tyler’s “Crocodile Fever” at the Arcola Theatre: Northern Ireland Sisters In A Darkly Funny Anti-Patriarchal Feast Of Symbols
Weird scenes inside the farmhouse; weird scenes in Northern Ireland; weird scenes of the 1980s....
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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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