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3sisters at the Novi Sad Theatre

Posted by Emilija Kvočka | 7th Nov 2025 | Adaptation, Review, Serbia

Before the audience of the play 3sisters, with their eyes wide open, a music box, the girls on...

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

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 30th Oct 2025 | Adaptation, London, Review, Theatre and Decolonization, United Kingdom

In 2023, Malaysian actor Michelle Yeoh won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance in...

Taking A Hit

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 14th Oct 2025 | Adaptation, Review, United States of America

James Graham’s play Punch tells the true story of a shiftless, belligerent rowdy who heedlessly...

Cruelty, Guilt, And Redemption Intertwine In “The Mutt” At IATI Theater

Posted by Victoria Zavyalova | 19th Sep 2025 | Adaptation, New York, Review, United States of America

With minimal décor and symbolism in every gesture, The Mutt — an adaptation of Dostoevsky’s The...

“Swan Song”: Between Prophecy and Epitaph

Posted by Emiliia Dementsova | 5th Aug 2025 | Adaptation, Azerbaijan, Review, Theatre and Politics

A provincial theatre celebrates an anniversary. In the dressing room — two men: a comic and a...

Fix+Foxy’s “A Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen: A Playful Study in Radical Intimacy

Posted by Duška Radosavljević | 2nd Jul 2025 | Adaptation, Denmark, Review

Imagine Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, staged as a sort of salon game, in a real couple’s home serving as...

Uncle Actor

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 12th Apr 2025 | Adaptation, New York, Review

Andrew Scott’s Vanya—a solo show in which he plays all the roles in Anton Chekhov’s classic...

Eline Arbo’s The Years At The Harold Pinter Theatre: Nobel Prize Winner Annie Ernaux’s Book Gets A Problematic West-End Staging

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 10th Feb 2025 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom

Marketing is the new real. For many years, in theatre as elsewhere in society, the most important...

Roy Williams’s The Lonely Londoners at the Kiln Theatre: Superb Stage Adaptation Of The Classic Sam Selvon Windrush Novel

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 20th Jan 2025 | Adaptation, London, Review, Theatre and Decolonization, United Kingdom

Is resilience the most powerful character trait? When you think about the suffering of the...

Robert Icke’s Oedipus at Wyndham’s Theatre: Lots Of Stunning Acting Compensates For Some Questionable Writing

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 20th Oct 2024 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom

The myth of Oedipus is so central to our psychic world that I was really surprised how many people...

Meet ONG Keng Sen, the Artistic Director of Singapore’s T:>Works and Keynote Speaker at the 2024 Singapore Literature Festival in NYC

Posted by Walter Byongsok Chon | 9th Oct 2024 | Adaptation, Festivals, Interview, Singapore

The 6th biennial Singapore Literature Festival is held in New York City on October 19 and 20,...

“Malvolio’s Fantasy.” A Glitzy Retelling Of Twelfth Night

Posted by Margaret Rose | 31st Aug 2024 | Adaptation, Edinburgh 2024, Review, Scotland

A cast of young actors from diverse parts of the globe brought Malvolio’s Fantasy to the Space...

Oscar Barney Finn and Paulo Brunetti Interview

Posted by Jack Wernick | 20th Aug 2024 | Adaptation, Argentina, Interview

I had the opportunity to interview frequent collaborators, writer-director Oscar Barney Finn and...

“Macbeth (An Undoing)”: A New Take That Aims To Reimagine Lady Macbeth’s Path – But Ultimately Leaves You Guessing

Posted by Kate Hunter | 24th Jul 2024 | Adaptation, Australia, Review

What if significant portions of William Shakespeare’s text for Macbeth had been lost, leading to a...

Sydney Theatre Company’s “Dracula”: A Virtuosic Performance, Sexy Staging, And A Queer Rewriting

Posted by Huw Griffiths | 16th Jul 2024 | Adaptation, Australia, Review

The figure of Dracula has always lived somewhere between the written word, screen projections and...

“That Perfect Dark”: Samuel Beckett’s “Company” in Dunedin

Posted by David O'Donnell | 19th Apr 2024 | Adaptation, New Zealand, Review, Worldwide

The southern city of Ōtepoti/Dunedin has played an important role in the history of Samuel Beckett...

Sergio Blanco’s “When You Pass Over My Tomb” at the Arcola Theatre: Exquisite Meta-Theatrical Exploration Of Death and Necrophilia

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 14th Feb 2024 | Adaptation, London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom, Uruguay

Nowadays it seems that it’s the fringe and Off-West End venues that are keeping the spirit of...

Belvoir’s “The Master and Margarita:” Astonishingly Ambitious, Physically Demanding, and a Resounding Success

Posted by Alexander Howard | 1st Dec 2023 | Adaptation, Australia, Review

Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov’s cult novel The Master and Margarita has inspired many artists....

Hyderabad This Weekend: Three plays with Different Storylines to Think and Entertain

Posted by Neeraja Murthy | 21st Nov 2023 | Adaptation, Devised Theatre, India

An ensemble of around 18 actors takes the stage this weekend in Hyderabad to present three plays...

In Conversation with Sartre and Plato: Locus29’s “Hell Dialogues”

Posted by Rhiannon Ling | 14th Nov 2023 | Adaptation, New York, Review, United States of America, Worldwide

The Sheen Center is, I find myself thinking, the perfect place to host Locus29’s Hell Dialogues....

Adaptation

3sisters at the Novi Sad Theatre

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

Taking A Hit

Cruelty, Guilt, And Redemption Intertwine In “The Mutt” At IATI Theater

“Swan Song”: Between Prophecy and Epitaph

Fix+Foxy’s “A Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen: A Playful Study in Radical Intimacy

Uncle Actor

Eline Arbo’s The Years At The Harold Pinter Theatre: Nobel Prize Winner Annie Ernaux’s Book Gets A Problematic West-End Staging

Roy Williams’s The Lonely Londoners at the Kiln Theatre: Superb Stage Adaptation Of The Classic Sam Selvon Windrush Novel

Robert Icke’s Oedipus at Wyndham’s Theatre: Lots Of Stunning Acting Compensates For Some Questionable Writing

Meet ONG Keng Sen, the Artistic Director of Singapore’s T:>Works and Keynote Speaker at the 2024 Singapore Literature Festival in NYC

“Malvolio’s Fantasy.” A Glitzy Retelling Of Twelfth Night

Oscar Barney Finn and Paulo Brunetti Interview

“Macbeth (An Undoing)”: A New Take That Aims To Reimagine Lady Macbeth’s Path – But Ultimately Leaves You Guessing

Sydney Theatre Company’s “Dracula”: A Virtuosic Performance, Sexy Staging, And A Queer Rewriting

“That Perfect Dark”: Samuel Beckett’s “Company” in Dunedin

Sergio Blanco’s “When You Pass Over My Tomb” at the Arcola Theatre: Exquisite Meta-Theatrical Exploration Of Death and Necrophilia

Belvoir’s “The Master and Margarita:” Astonishingly Ambitious, Physically Demanding, and a Resounding Success

Hyderabad This Weekend: Three plays with Different Storylines to Think and Entertain

In Conversation with Sartre and Plato: Locus29’s “Hell Dialogues”

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