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“Imperium” at The Gielgud Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 13th Jul 2018 | Adaptation, London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom

History repeats itself. This much we know. In the 1980s, under a Tory government obsessed with...

Brecht Comes Home To Santa Monica With City Garage’s “Arturo Ui”

Posted by Christine Deitner | 12th Jul 2018 | Los Angeles, Review, Translation, United States of America

There are plays that feel timeless because they strike familiar chords and speak to something at...

“Genesis Inc” at The Hampstead Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 12th Jul 2018 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom

We are now pretty familiar with the idea that human reproduction (making babies) has been turned...

Acting Legend Martha Henry Triumphs As Prospero At Stratford

Posted by Jamie Portman | 11th Jul 2018 | Canada, Festivals, Review

STRATFORD—We find ourselves immediately plunged into the opening shipwreck scene: sails flapping...

Robert Lepage Finally Makes It To Stratford With An Astonishing “Coriolanus”

Posted by Jamie Portman | 10th Jul 2018 | Canada, Directing, Review

We’re not in a movie house. We’re in Robert Lepage country, so it’s inevitable that the famed...

Confronting The Past: Anjon Bose’s “Garbh” Focuses on Rural Distress and Disintegration

Posted by Diwan Singh Bajeli | 10th Jul 2018 | India, Review, Translation

Incorporating elements of post-modernism, surrealism and realism, Anjon Bose’s Garbh focuses on...

“Winter Solstice” At Cannes

Posted by Katerina Sinadinovska | 9th Jul 2018 | France, Germany, Review, Theatre and Politics, Translation

The thesis that fascism is encountered at all extremes of the political spectrum is a key to the...

Silence And Violence In “4’33” In Baghdad” (Montreal Fringe)

Posted by Willow White | 8th Jul 2018 | Canada, Festivals, Review

Montreal, Québec Willow White reviews Thought Experiment Productions’ 4’33” In Baghdad in the...

The Shaw Festival Misfires With “The Baroness And The Pig”

Posted by Jamie Portman | 8th Jul 2018 | Canada, Festivals, Review

The scene does offer some amusement. A benevolent Baroness has embarked on a key initiative in her...

The Playful Vitality Of Matter: “The Goldfish And The Inner Tube” Of Ruth Childs And Stéphane Vecchione

Posted by Marilena Borriello | 7th Jul 2018 | Review, Switzerland

In the center of the stage, thirty-six deflated inner tubes are organized in six rows and six...

Martin McDonagh’s “The Lieutenant Of Inishmore” At The Noël Coward Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 7th Jul 2018 | London, Northern Ireland, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom

Actor Aidan Turner, who plays the Cornish land-owner Poldark in the hit BBC series of that name,...

“Carmen Jones”: A Classic Reborn

Posted by The Theatre Times | 6th Jul 2018 | Musical Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America

It is then, a refreshing surprise – as New York theatre recovers from the inundation of Broadway super-musicals that were too big to succeed – that Carmen Jones has returned in a razor-sharp 95-minute John Doyle production at the Classic Stage Company.