“School Girls; or, The African Mean Girls Play” at the Pittsburgh Public Theater, Pittsburgh PA, USA
The title of Jocelyn Bioh’s School Girls; or, The African Mean Girls Play tells you a certain...
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“Dance Nation” at Barebones Productions, Pittsburgh PA, USA
Allow me to introduce you to the fierce yet fragile preteens who populate Clare Barron’s savagely...
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“One Night in Miami…” at City Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
After he won the World Heavyweight Championship by roundly defeating Sonny Liston on February...
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“Midnight Movie” at The Royal Court
Eve Leigh is an experimental playwright who has tackled difficult issues for more than a decade....
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“Judgement Day”: Illusions of Grandeur
Two years ago, the British director Richard Jones brought a stunning production of Eugene...
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Dressing Room with a Bathrobe and a Gas Mask. “Trump and the Field of Maize” at the Polski Theatre, Bydgoszcz
Like two other plays that premiered this year, Agata Siniarska’s You Are Safe, and The Last One...
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Lucy McCormick: Post-Popular at Soho Theatre
Lucy McCormick specializes in historical re-enactments, she tells us, and she is here to play all...
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“There Will Be No Intermission”: Amanda Palmer Speaks Truth in Major Keys
Amanda Palmer has not come to entertain. Instead, she has written and designed what feels like an...
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Shelagh Delaney’s “A Taste of Honey” at the Trafalgar Studios
It is hard to believe that Shelagh Delaney wrote A Taste of Honey when she was only nineteen. This...
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“Inchoate Buzz:” A Testing Ground for Interaction and Interdisciplinarity
How far can bodily interaction amongst the audience members, with performance objects, and with...
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Who? Whoo! “Other Than We:”Karen Malpede’s Latest Eco-Feminist Play at La MaMa
Karen Malpede’s plays scream “Pay Attention.” Thus I titled my 2001 New York Times article on I...
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Review: The play “My Father – His Exalted Highness”
The play My Father – His Exalted Highness was a nuanced depiction of the concerns of a ruler...
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“Trace”: The Impact of Identity and Family Through Time.
“We are women who do what must be done” so says the cigarette-puffing, mahjong-addicted...
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“Almighty Voice and His Wife:” Love, Settler Colonialism, and Looking Back at the Audience
Almighty Voice and his Wife, a play written by Daniel David Moses in 1991, was recently staged in...
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Dance on Screen. Three Moments from the 58th International Art Exhibition-La Biennale di Venezia
Artists from three different and fairly distant parts of the world — Australia, Brazil and...
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Midnight Radio: “Yinzer Scrooged: A Pittsburgh Christmas Carol” at Bricolage Production Company, Pittsburgh PA, USA
Reader, if – like me – you’re a relatively recent transplant to Pittsburgh, the presence of the...
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Diamonds In the Rough
An emerging sidelight at the annual Prithvi Theatre Festival is its selection of fringe offerings...
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Cosmos, Without Us
I’m a thirty-four-year-old straight woman who grew up in the suburbs with an older brother. That...
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John Webster’s “The Duchess of Malfi” at the Almeida Theatre
This Duchess of Malfi is a cool one. It is so cool that it has lost its gripping temper and, with...
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Isabelita Perón in the Spotlight: “Happyland” at Buenos Aires’ Teatro San Martin
Alfredo Arias has been based in France for many decades now, but he is an increasingly frequent...
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