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Russian Theatre Productions To Watch In U.S. And U.K. Cinemas

Posted by Alexandra Guzeva - Russia Beyond the Headlines | 8th Aug 2017 | News, Russia

Stage Russia HD continues its enlightening mission to bring more performances of leading Russian...

Poetry And Power: “Pipeline” At Lincoln Center

Posted by Jack Wernick | 7th Aug 2017 | New York, Review, United States of America

Acclaimed playwright Dominique Morisseau makes an auspicious Lincoln Center debut with her new...

“The Land Has a Hold on Us” A Look at Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru’s New Production “Hollti”

Posted by Christopher Harris | 7th Aug 2017 | Playwriting, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom

The New Wylfa construction remains a controversial subject and one that sparks intense debate. In Hollti, audiences are offered a sensual journey through a land torn over the prospect of an exciting, if not frightening change.

The Whispers Which Turned to Screams

Posted by Baharak Sahami | 6th Aug 2017 | Iran, Theatre and Politics

The Whispers Behind the Battle Line, a tragicomedy by Ali Reza Naderi and directed by Mohammad...

Economy/Institution/Democracy

Posted by Marta Keil | 6th Aug 2017 | News, Poland, Theatre and Politics

Let us consider that the evolution of institutional criticism has been conducted in relation to...

New Play on Lu Xun, China’s Most Celebrated Modern Writer, Attracts Praise, Controversy

Posted by Wu Haiyun | 5th Aug 2017 | China, Review, Theatre and Politics

A giant statue overlooks the stage, faceless yet easily recognizable as the Great Helmsman, Mao...

Experimental Arrangement In The “In Between”

Posted by Anke Meyer | 5th Aug 2017 | Germany, Puppetry

Every two years, four cities in Franconia host an international puppet theater festival. A look at...

Three Ways of Appreciating Traditional Chinese Theatre

Posted by Dongshin Chang | 4th Aug 2017 | China, Essay

In August 2015, I attended the program Classical Beauties presented by Queens Library at Flushing,...

The Work of a Poet: The Marull Sisters’ New Play “Hidalgo”

Posted by Veronica Stewart | 4th Aug 2017 | Argentina

The Marull sisters do it again with their new play Hidalgo. From the minute Susana walks into the...

Don’t You Have Other Problems to Worry About? Theatre and Politics in Poland

Posted by Marta Keil | 3rd Aug 2017 | News, Poland, Theatre and Politics

“Auto-theatre” that I have described recently and that remains at the core of new political...

Doing Time, Passing Time, Wasting Time: an Interview with Taiwanese-American Artist Tehching Hsieh

Posted by KaiChieh Tu | 3rd Aug 2017 | Interview, Taiwan, Theatre and Art, United States of America

“Downtown Manhattan, 30th September 1978. Tehching Hsieh, a young Taiwanese artist, begins to make...

“In Sundry Languages” Is A Feast for the Ears

Posted by Heather Fitzimmons-Frey | 2nd Aug 2017 | Canada, Transcultural Collaborations

Toronto Laboratory Theatre declares that its show, In Sundry Languages, “looks and feels like...

Messiah on Stage

Posted by Olena Mygashko | 2nd Aug 2017 | Adaptation, Ukraine

On the stage covered with flour appears officer Bonet (Dmytro Surzhykov). Heavy and uneven white...

Collective Playwriting: A European Experience

Posted by Paul Castagno | 1st Aug 2017 | Finland, Norway, Playwriting, Transcultural Collaborations

The EU Collective Plays project is arguably the most ambitious new play project in the history of...

Mei-Lin Te Puea Hansen’s “The Mooncake and the Kumara” Explores the Māori-Chinese Cultural Experience

Posted by John Smythe | 1st Aug 2017 | New Zealand

It captures a time when Māori were increasingly dispossessed of their lands and Chinese immigrants were subjected to appalling discrimination – not least (and I didn’t know this before) by the government.