Mental Illness, Misogyny, and the Myth of the Male Genius in “The Butcher Boy”
This review contains spoilers. TW: suicide, homicide, mental illness The Butcher Boy, which opened...
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“Don’t You Hate It When Assholes Are Talented?”: “macbitches” at Chain Theatre
I went to theatre school. Know this before reading on. I went to theatre school, trained as an...
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Honey, I’m Home! — Robert Icke’s “Oresteia”
If nothing else, you have to admire the chutzpah of Robert Icke’s Oresteia, which tries to...
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“The Cherry Orchard,” Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble
What might Anton Chekov, that Russian master of the nineteenth century, have to say about the...
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Leveling Effects: Matthew Spangler’s Adaptation of “The Kite Runner”
Khaled Hosseini’s 2003 novel The Kite Runner is a vividly descriptive and often gripping tale of...
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Ivo Van Hove’s Water-turgy: “Ingolstadt” at the Salzburg Festival
Just over a hundred years since its founding (by impresario and theatre director Max Reinhardt),...
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With “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall” at The Sydney Theatre Company Gives Us a Brontë Adaptation for Our Moment
Review: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, directed by Jessica Arthur for the Sydney Theatre Company...
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Unmanly Griefs: Robert Icke’s “Hamlet”
The first ten minutes of Robert Icke’s 3 ¾-hour Hamlet had me worried. Icke is a British directing...
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“On the Verge of Tragedy and Farce”: An Interview with Dmitry Krymov
Dmitry Krymov: artist, director, stage designer, teacher. The son of two of the great theatrical...
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The Beast is Back: Radiotheatre’s Live Audio Play “King Kong”
Since its original 1933 film debut, the story of King Kong has become a mainstay of America’s, and...
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Fresh “Ham” at the Public
Fat Ham arrives at the Public Theater for its first live production following the Zoom staging by...
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“Sky of Darkness” Comes to NYC: A Chinese Reimagination of “Heart of Darkness” in Our Neocolonial World
Sky of Darkness is enjoying its US premiere June 2-12 at Theaterlab in Midtown Manhattan. The...
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Belgian Premiere of “Molly Bloom” in Ghent
In 1999, Viviane De Muynck and Jan Lauwers set to work with the last chapter of James...
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“The Burnt City,” One Cartridge Place
Punchdrunk theatre, the eponymous progenitors of “immersive theatre,” have been wowing...
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Ivo van Hove’s “Age of Rage” at Barbican
Ivo van Hove’s production of Age of Rage is sourced from six plays by Euripides and one by...
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“Black Boy,” or What to Do with the White Theatre Critic
What do you do when you are blown away by a show, and yet you know that there is something...
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The Revolution of Tragedies: An Interview with Romanian Director Andrei Majeri
During the very agonic and snail-slow, first foggy year under COVID of 2020, I met theater...
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“Children of A Clockwork Orange” at the Youth Theatre, Novi Sad
Youth Theatre, Novi Sad. Premiered February 27, 2022. A few days ago, a friend who is a teacher...
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Dolce & Duce: “The Taming of the Shrew” at the Mossovet Theatre
In a country at war, theatres continue to work… “(They) are so simple to offer war...
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“The Brothers Karamazov” at The Zagreb Youth Theater
Zagreb Youth Theater (ZKM), premiered on February 26, 2022 It is almost impossible to begin a...
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