“Woyczek” at the National Theater of Hungary
Buchner’s “historically difficult explains modernity” in the performance of...
Read MorePosted by Emilija Kvočka | 3rd Nov 2022 | Adaptation, Dramaturgy, Hungary, Review
Buchner’s “historically difficult explains modernity” in the performance of...
Read MorePosted by Matthew McMahan | 31st Oct 2022 | Adaptation, Boston, Directing, Ireland, Review, United States of America
Bill Irwin greets the audience by conveying that the performance will be around 90 minutes (by way...
Read MorePosted by The Hindu | 16th Oct 2022 | Adaptation, India, Interview, Theatre and Gender
The play seeks to draw parallels between Desdemona from Othello and select women from Indian epics...
Read MorePosted by Rhiannon Ling | 10th Oct 2022 | Adaptation, New York, Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America
“Patriarchy is a judge that judges us for being born” proclaims the banner wrapped above our...
Read MorePosted by Maria Pia Pagani | 3rd Oct 2022 | Adaptation, Directing, Italy, Review
The Trianon Viviani Theatre had offered a new chapter of the special project “Viviani on the Road”...
Read MorePosted by Emiliia Dementsova | 2nd Oct 2022 | Adaptation, Review, Russia, Theatre and Politics
Musical drama of unlearned lessons is perhaps the most appropriate definition for Evgeny...
Read MorePosted by Rossella Ferrari | 1st Oct 2022 | Adaptation, China, Directing, Festivals, Hong Kong, Poland, Review
Tang Xianzu’s sixteenth-century classic, Peony Pavilion (1598), is a play about boundaries and...
Read MorePosted by Morgan Skolnik | 21st Sep 2022 | Adaptation, New York, Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America
Why is this boy-kills-girl play different from all other boy-kills-girl plays? For starters, it...
Read MorePosted by Michelle Arrow | 19th Sep 2022 | Adaptation, Australia, Review, Theatre and Disability
Review: Tell Me I’m Here, directed by Leticia Cáceres, Belvoir. Released in 1991, the memoir Tell...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 16th Sep 2022 | Adaptation, Design, London, Netherlands, Review, United Kingdom
‘If this were a text for the theatre, here is how it would begin’ – these are the opening words of...
Read MorePosted by Huw Griffiths | 13th Sep 2022 | Acting, Adaptation, Australia, Review
Review: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, directed by Kip Williams for Sydney Theatre Company...
Read MorePosted by Morgan Skolnik | 26th Aug 2022 | Adaptation, New York, Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America
This review contains spoilers. TW: suicide, homicide, mental illness The Butcher Boy, which opened...
Read MorePosted by Rhiannon Ling | 22nd Aug 2022 | Adaptation, New York, Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America
I went to theatre school. Know this before reading on. I went to theatre school, trained as an...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 13th Aug 2022 | Adaptation, Directing, New York, Review, United States of America
If nothing else, you have to admire the chutzpah of Robert Icke’s Oresteia, which tries to...
Read MorePosted by Justine Nakase | 12th Aug 2022 | Adaptation, Design, Review, Russian Theatre Abroad, United States of America
What might Anton Chekov, that Russian master of the nineteenth century, have to say about the...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 10th Aug 2022 | Adaptation, Afghanistan, Directing, Review, United States of America
Khaled Hosseini’s 2003 novel The Kite Runner is a vividly descriptive and often gripping tale of...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 8th Aug 2022 | Adaptation, Austria, Dramaturgy, Festivals, Review
Just over a hundred years since its founding (by impresario and theatre director Max Reinhardt),...
Read MorePosted by Vanessa Smith | 29th Jul 2022 | Adaptation, Australia, Review, Theatre and Gender
Review: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, directed by Jessica Arthur for the Sydney Theatre Company...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 19th Jul 2022 | Adaptation, New York, Playwriting, Review, United States of America
The first ten minutes of Robert Icke’s 3 ¾-hour Hamlet had me worried. Icke is a British directing...
Read MorePosted by Sergey Elkin | 3rd Jul 2022 | Adaptation, Directing, Interview, Russia
Dmitry Krymov: artist, director, stage designer, teacher. The son of two of the great theatrical...
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