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It’s Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” But Not As You Know It

Posted by Nobuko Tanaka | 16th May 2019 | Adaptation, Japan, News, Transcultural Collaborations

With praise for his Hamlet with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2016 still ringing in his ears —...

Stories From The Soul: “Topi Ki Dastaan”, A Play Based On The Popular Hindi nNovel Topi Shukla

Posted by Prabalika M. Borah | 13th May 2019 | Adaptation, Directing, India, News

Director Tarique Hameed on why Dastaan Narration Form is the best way to narrate the story of Topi...

“Jude” at The Hampstead Theatre: Adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s 1895 Tragic Novel, “Jude The Obscure”

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 13th May 2019 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom

Edward Hall bids farewell to this venue, where he has been artistic director since 2010, with this...

Susan Stein’s “Etty”

Posted by Abigail Weil | 4th May 2019 | Adaptation, New York, Review, United States of America

In 1942, responding to the announcement that people of Japanese ancestry on the American west...

Absurdist Comedy “Every Good Boy Deserves Favour” Gets Its Japan Debut

Posted by Nobuko Tanaka | 4th May 2019 | Adaptation, Japan, News, Transcultural Collaborations

Tom Stoppard is one of the most influential figures in theater today and one of the most...

Demystifying The Religious Fountainhead

Posted by Vikram Phukan | 3rd May 2019 | Adaptation, India, Review

Marathi play, Avyahat has a cinematic sweep and a multi-layered narrative. The third generation of...

David Herskovits’ “Marjana And The Forty Thieves”

Posted by Abigail Weil | 31st Mar 2019 | Adaptation, New York, Review, United States of America

You know The Thousand And One Nights both better and worse than you realize. You may know it by a...

“El Coronel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba” At Harlem Stage

Posted by Abigail Weil | 30th Mar 2019 | Adaptation, New York, Review, United States of America

Creating riveting theater out of the problem of a bureaucratic oversight is no easy feat. Luckily...

East Meets West In An English Retelling Of “The Legend Of The White Snake”

Posted by Zolima Citymag | 27th Mar 2019 | Adaptation, Hong Kong, News, Theatre and Opera

Why We Recommend it The opera Madame White Snake tells the story of a demon’s incessant pursuit of...

Tears of a Clown: “American Juggalo”

Posted by Abigail Weil | 1st Mar 2019 | Adaptation, Documentary Theatre, New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

What is a juggalo? Let me think for a second…Oh! He gets butt-naked and then he walks through the...

Brecht In Exile: “Galileo” In Brooklyn

Posted by Jack Wernick | 1st Mar 2019 | Adaptation, Germany, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

New York’s Irondale Project presents a scrupulously faithful production of Brecht’s The Life Of...

“Kinkakuji:” Staging A Japanese Classic With A German Twist

Posted by Nobuko Tanaka | 24th Feb 2019 | Adaptation, Japan, News, Theatre and Opera, Transcultural Collaborations

A new opera based on the quintessentially Japanese novel Kinkakuji is set to open in Tokyo...

“Medea” By Simon Stone, The New Stage Sensation

Posted by Antonio Hernández | 14th Feb 2019 | Adaptation, Review, Spain

Simon Stone is a stage director who began working in Australia and is currently working in Europe. His successful production of Yerma, by Federico García Lorca, was selected by The New York Times theatre critics as one of the best plays in New York in 2018. Medea, a Simon Stone collaboration with the prestigious Ivo Van […]