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Inside Chicago Court Theatre’s “Berlin”–Turning a Graphic Novel into Live Theatre: An Exclusive Interview with Playwright Mickle Maher

Posted by Susanna Sun | 24th Dec 2025 | Adaptation, Interview, United States of America

Praised by the Houston Chronicle as “one of the most original voices in American theater today,”...

Dostoevsky on Stage. “The Mutt” by Anoushka Nesterova and Elena Che at the IATI Theater, New York

Posted by Vassili Schedrin | 7th Dec 2025 | Adaptation, Review, United States of America

Dostoevsky is hard to read, harder to translate, and even harder to adapt for stage. The Mutt by...

Adaptations On The German Stage (2): “Der Schimmelreiter” In Oldenburg

Posted by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe | 28th Nov 2025 | Adaptation, Directing, Germany, Review

Der Schimmelreiter (The Rider on the White Horse) is a novella by German writer Theodor Storm...

Evil Can Appear Beautiful

Posted by Margaret Rose | 23rd Nov 2025 | Adaptation, Italy, Review

Two major productions of Richard III are touring Italy in the present season, a sign perhaps that...

#Me Too Oedipus

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 20th Nov 2025 | Adaptation, Review, United States of America

The British directing star Robert Icke specializes in contemporary adaptations of classics. He...

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...

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