Comfort in the Unknown: SOCIETY’s “The Strangers Came Today”
How is theater like a support group? This question struck me upon entering The Strangers Came...
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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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Director Maria Mileaf and Actor Aline Salloum on Oren Safdie’s High School Crush Gone Sideways, “Gratitude”
Gratitude, by Oren Safdie, directed by Maria Mileaf, and starring Jalen Ford, Jake Bryan Guthrie,...
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Mohamed Sobhy’s “Nogoum El-Dohr” Continues Successful Run
Egyptian actor and director Mohamed Sobhy is celebrating the success of his latest theatrical play...
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Mikhoels by Freud: “The Singing Windmills” by Roman Freud and the PM Theater Company
Why do we still remember theater that became history many decades ago? How do we remember plays...
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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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Ambiguity and Amorality: Is Douglas Stewart’s “Ned Kelly” One of Australia’s Great Forgotten Plays?
In 1943, Dolia Ribush, a Russian-speaking Latvian theatre director of medium height and...
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Bell Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” Highlights the “Claustrophobic Personal Dynamics” of Shakespeare’s Play
In a speech to the United Kingdom’s House of Commons on March 9, Ukrainian President Volodymyr...
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“The Human Voice” at Harold Pinter Theatre
Is there really such a thing as an unmissable show? Depends on your taste of course, but for sheer...
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“Red Pitch”, Bush Theatre
Football stories are never just about a game — they are also about life and how to live it. In...
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“The Forest,” Hampstead Theatre
Let’s start with stereotypes: British theater is naturalistic, down-to-earth and explains...
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Dmitry Krymov Plumbs the Depths of Memory (part 2)
This is part 2 of a piece on Dmitry Krymov’s Everyone Is Here. For part 1, click here. Along...
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Dmitry Krymov Plumbs the Depths of Memory (part 1)
There is one wonderful detail in the Russian language. The letter E (“ye”) can be absolutely...
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Exit interview: Dubravka Vrgoč
Dubravka Vrgoč, General and Artistic Director of the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, is set...
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“Peggy For You,” Hampstead Theatre
Peggy Ramsay is a theater legend. Around the time of her death in 1991, the Australian-born agent...
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Sensation and Documentation: Jody Christopherson’s “Tussaud/Antoinette”
The name “Tussaud” has always been linked to sensationalism and popular culture: now synonymous...
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A Conversation with Director Ashley Tata
Ashley Tata is a Brooklyn-based director and maker of multimedia works. I had the pleasure of...
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Sound and Emotion: Anson Mak’s New Documentary
It’s hard to categorize Anson Mak Hoi-shan. In a video call in early March, the only time the...
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Artists’ Entry: Tiago Rodrigues
Since he started out as an actor, 20 years ago, Tiago Rodrigues has always looked at theater as a...
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Repertoire Readings: Connecting the Past to the Present: Farinaz Kavianifar Interview with Ruhollah Jafari
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