World Was A Stage For Acclaimed Theater Director Yukio Ninagawa
Acclaimed stage director Yukio Ninagawa was a titan of global theater but his hand felt...
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Strindberg’s Surrealistic “Dream” Heralds A Pivotal Era For KAAT
He doesn’t officially become Kanagawa Arts Theatre’s artistic director until April 1, but Akira...
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Kama Ginkas Playing Games With Dostoevsky Again
After a 24 year hiatus, Russian director Kama Ginkas has again stepped into one of the most famous...
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Bell Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” Reviewed: The Same Great Themes In Some Strange New Haunts
Today, Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a play that haunts itself. Its saturation into cultural...
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Jules Wright, Courageous Australian Theatre Director, Died Earlier This Year–Did You Know?
Old soldiers fade away. Old theatre directors disappear more quickly. And old female directors can...
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Daring And Visually Stunning: Robert Wilson’s Take On “Pushkin”
The world premiere of a groundbreaking new production by Robert Wilson took place at Moscow’s...
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Staging Shakespeare’s Tragedies in Tehran: An Interview with Iranian Director Mohammad Aghebati
An Interview with Iranian Director Mohammad Aghebati Most young Americans would be hard-pressed to...
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Monique Stalens: A Life Steeped In Polish Theater
Today, Monique Stalens often directs her theater adaptations of Gombrowicz and Witkacy in Polish,...
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50 Years with Ariane Mnouchkine’s Théâtre du Soleil
American playwright, translator, and journalist Amelia Parenteau is currently in residence in...
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Yury Lyubimov, For whom History was a Home
The death of Yury Lyubimov in Moscow on Sunday morning, October 5, 2014, at the age of 97, puts...
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Belarus Free Theatre: An Interview With “Red Forest” Director Nicolai Khalezin
Nicolai Khalezin is the director of the Belarus Free Theatre’s newest production Red Forest. He...
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Women Directors in Poland
Although historically Polish theatre has gained worldwide renown predominantly thanks to its male...
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Review: Love And War In “All’s Well That Ends Well”
Love is a battlefield. While Pat Benatar might have made this line her own in the 1980s,...
Read More“Black Monk” Talks In Tongues
Of all the theatrical languages that coexist in Moscow, director Kama Ginkas is an intonation unto himself. You can hear it in his actors’ speech. “They often speak not as they do in life or even on stage for another...
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There is No Single Mainstream: Conversation With Wojtek Ziemilski About Devised Theatre
Talk with Wojtek Ziemilski Look around–nowadays even ads for shoes are often bolder than the...
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Baryshnikov And Krymov Collaborate For The Ages
For the first time, Mikhail Baryshnikov acts in Russian for one of Russia’s most innovative...
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Polish Movie Nite Presents Marcella Faustini: An Introduction To The Theatre Of Tadeusz Kantor
The following essay is the fifth in this six-part column for CR. Developed during Polish Movie...
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The Impossibility Of The End: Krzysztof Warlikowski’s “Apollonia”
Does the end mean a promise of fulfillment? Or is it just its illusion, a delusive prospect of...
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Preaching From The Chorus – Soundscape of Marta Górnicka’s Theatre
“I want to create a new kind of chorus theatre,” says Marta Górnicka. If Tu Mówi Chór…...
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In his latest premiere, Koprofagi, Jan Klata abandons all the strategies that secured him his...
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