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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....

“My Sister Jill:” Patricia Cornelius’ New Play is a Blistering Post-War Social and Cultural Commentary

Posted by Sarah Austin | 25th Oct 2023 | Adaptation, Australia, Review

Emerging from one of Australia’s most enduring and significant theatrical partnerships between...

Lolita Chakrabarti’s Hamnet at the Garrick Theatre: Pedestrian Adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s Bestseller About Shakespeare’s Wife and Son

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 23rd Oct 2023 | Adaptation, Books, London, Review, United Kingdom

Why are stage adaptations of bestselling novels so disappointing? Okay, I appreciate the...

The Life of Three “Best Friends:” Anat Gov’s Feminism at the 14th Street Y

Posted by Rhiannon Ling | 22nd Oct 2023 | Adaptation, New York, Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America, Worldwide

Anat Gov’s Best Friends lives in a world of dichotomy. The title is both entirely true and...

“Fear Eats The Soul”: Love In The Grip of Hate

Posted by Emiliia Dementsova | 11th Oct 2023 | Adaptation, Festivals, Germany, Review, Theatre and Film, Theatre Olympics 2023

These two people are separated by history, geography, language, maths, and other school subjects...

A Journey of Discovery and Identity Formation: “The Dictionary of Lost Words” Makes Its Wonderful Stage Debut

Posted by Russell Fewster | 5th Oct 2023 | Adaptation, Australia, Review

The Dictionary of Lost Words follows Esme as she navigates the patriarchal world of Victorian...

“That Face” at Orange Tree Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 3rd Oct 2023 | Adaptation, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom

Playwright Polly Stenham had a meteoric rise with this play, her award-winning 2007 debut which...

Sydney Theatre Company’s “The Importance of Being Earnest”: Fresh, Funny and Completely Joyous

Posted by Huw Griffiths | 28th Sep 2023 | Acting, Adaptation, Australia, Review, Sydney, Theatre and Politics

It is easy to forget that when Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest was first written and...

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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”

“My Sister Jill:” Patricia Cornelius’ New Play is a Blistering Post-War Social and Cultural Commentary

Lolita Chakrabarti’s Hamnet at the Garrick Theatre: Pedestrian Adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s Bestseller About Shakespeare’s Wife and Son

The Life of Three “Best Friends:” Anat Gov’s Feminism at the 14th Street Y

“Fear Eats The Soul”: Love In The Grip of Hate

A Journey of Discovery and Identity Formation: “The Dictionary of Lost Words” Makes Its Wonderful Stage Debut

“That Face” at Orange Tree Theatre

Sydney Theatre Company’s “The Importance of Being Earnest”: Fresh, Funny and Completely Joyous

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