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Guilty Pleasures, Escapism, And The Greatest Hits Of ABBA Abound In TUTS’s “Mamma Mia!”

Posted by Trevor Boffone | 26th Feb 2019 | Musical Theatre, Review, United States of America

Confession. I love ABBA. For years I kept my Abba-session private. No one needed to know nor did I...

Story Of Kader Can; A Rapper Boy’s Journey From Poor Outskirts Of Istanbul To Military Barracks!

Posted by Handan Salta | 25th Feb 2019 | Review, Turkey

In this review, I tried to interview an imaginary well-read friend of mine who is fond of going to...

Gripping, Contemporary Take On Brecht: “The Good Person Of Szechwan” (Dir. Yury Butusov), At The Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre At The Barbican, London

Posted by Katalin Trencsényi | 25th Feb 2019 | Directing, Review, Russia, Russian Theatre Abroad, Transcultural Collaborations

It was long overdue for a British audience to be given the opportunity to see another work by the...

Meshuggah, Nein? “Fiddler” In Yiddish

Posted by Abigail Weil | 24th Feb 2019 | Musical Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America

In 2004, Gwen Stefani, lately of the band No Doubt, released a song called Rich Girl which sampled...

“New Piece I: Since She”: Tanztheater Wuppertal and The Legacy of Pina Bausch

Posted by Duška Radosavljević | 24th Feb 2019 | Germany, Review, Theatre and Dance

In the last ten years since the death of Pina Bausch, Tanztheater Wuppertal, the company she...

Subtle and Striking, Irondale’s Timely “The Life of Galileo” is Epic Theater

Posted by Michael Appler | 22nd Feb 2019 | New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, Theatre and Science, United States of America

Irondale’s innovative and triumphant “Galileo” is Bertolt Brecht at his most excellent, cradled by an ensemble of dynamic and invested performers and pitched inevitably toward its audience with a playful, conscious eye toward its own didactic mission.

David Ireland’s “Cyprus Avenue” At The Royal Court

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 22nd Feb 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom

With Brexit and Northern Ireland constantly in the news, the timeliness of this play is not in...

“All About Eve” at Noel Coward Theatre

Posted by Duška Radosavljević | 21st Feb 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom

Some seventy-odd years ago, New Yorker Mary Orr wrote a short story for the Cosmopolitan magazine...

“My Dad’s Gap Year” at The Park Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 20th Feb 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom

Gender fluidity should be fun—after all, it’s all about love. And love can take any shape it...

Review: Who Needs To Be Reminded “We Are Not Alone”?

Posted by Christine H. Tran | 20th Feb 2019 | Canada, Review, Theatre and Politics

“I want to believe,” declared Agent Fox Mulder in the 1998 television pilot for The X-Files. Two...

The Beauty In Differences In The “Scarlet Ibis,” A New Opera

Posted by Megan McCormick | 20th Feb 2019 | Boston, Review, Theatre and Opera, United States of America

Beautiful and heart-wrenching and incredibly real, The Scarlet Ibis is a masterpiece of modern...

“The End Of TV”: Manual Cinema Presents Another Unusual And Stunning Work

Posted by Jane Baldwin | 18th Feb 2019 | Boston, Review, Theatre and Film, United States of America

Manual Cinema has returned to Boston’s ArtsEmerson with their latest work The End Of TV just a...

“City Of No Illusions” Takes Refugees To The Border Of Life And Death

Posted by Michael Appler | 16th Feb 2019 | New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

“City of No Illusions,” a political comedy that stages the modern refugee crisis inside a funeral home.

Arthur Miller’s “The Price” At The Wyndham’s Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 15th Feb 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom

All hail Arthur Miller, chief of London’s modern revivals this year. Which is odd, given that 2019...

“Medea” By Simon Stone, The New Stage Sensation

Posted by Antonio Hernández | 14th Feb 2019 | Adaptation, Review, Spain

Simon Stone is a stage director who began working in Australia and is currently working in Europe. His successful production of Yerma, by Federico García Lorca, was selected by The New York Times theatre critics as one of the best plays in New York in 2018. Medea, a Simon Stone collaboration with the prestigious Ivo Van […]