“Rock Follies” Review: Powerful New Musical Brings 1970s Feminist TV Sensation to the Stage
Rock Follies was a groundbreaking television series about an all-female rock band that originally...
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“A Place Of Comfort In The Square:” Once Upon A Time In Baku Or Memory Of The Heart
The smooth curves of the fancy building, with no sharp angles, were embraced by the spicy Baku...
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A Hindu Epic Takes the Stage in Hong Kong
If Hong Kong was the setting for a hero’s journey — the storytelling arc of trials and temptations...
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“Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead” at the Barbican Theatre
Imagine yourself in a remote place: it could be a mountaintop, or a lost village, or the Amazon....
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“Report to an Academy”: To Be or Not to Be Human?
No matter how trends, themes, agendas and moods of society change, the focus of the study of art...
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“Nora”: Present Continuous Hell
Get inside a woman’s head and, by understanding her, unravel the mystery of how the world...
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Easy Reading (or not): Cristina Morales’s “Lectura fácil” on the Stage
There is nothing easy about Alberto San Juan’s Lectura fácil. His adaptation of Cristina Morales’...
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The Brilliance of Nuria Espert: Secrets, Lies and “La Isla Del Aire”
Alejandro Palomas has transformed his acclaimed 2005 novel La isla del aire (The Island of Air)...
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“The Iliad” at Betty Nansen Theatre, Copenhagen
It’s about two years since I moved to the Oresund region, the liminal place between southern...
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The Envy of Baz Luhrmann: A Parkside “Romeo + Juliet” to Remember
It can be difficult to gain contemporary audience for Shakespearean performance. Though the Bard’s...
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“Much Ado About Nothing:” National Youth Theatre Gives Shakespeare the Love Island Treatment
“What’s your type on paper?” is frequently asked by contestants on the popular reality dating...
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“Phaedra” at The National Theatre
How can old texts speak to us now? The point is not just to adapt classics, but to reimagine them...
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Àlex Rigola’s Lean, Mean Riff on “Hedda Gabler”
Catalan director Àlex Rigola, the former artistic director of the Venice Biennale’s theatre...
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The Geography of Theatre Imagination: A New “Endgame” at a New Irish Theatre Festival
Much of my approach to theatre, to performance, especially, consists in locating and assessing a...
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“Three Sisters,” National Theatre
Earlier in the week, I enjoyed a rainy afternoon at home by watching Inua Ellis’s 2019 adaptation...
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“Sonne, los jetzt!”: Elfriede Jelinek’s Reversed Heliotropism for the End Times
Sonne, los jetzt!, Elfriede Jelinek’s new theater piece, is imperative with an unknown addressee....
Read More“The Fall” at Soho Playhouse
On a cold November, New York Friday night, when temperatures approached freezing, the shivering audience waiting to experience Albert Camus’ The Fall at the Soho Playhouse checked in at the box office on the upper floor, then...
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“The Bloody Poet: A Novel about Nero” at DESIRÉ Central Station
At this “Desiré” festival in Subotica, on the stage of the Dezső Kosztolányi Theatre,...
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“&Juliet”: What if?—A Review.
The previews of &Juliet the musical, began October 28th 2022 at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre...
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“A Drop of Midnight”
There is a palpable sense of world-class musicianship as the ensemble of six instrumentalists and...
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