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Githa Sowerby’s “Rutherford And Son” at The National Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 14th Jun 2019 | Directing, London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom

Githa Sowerby is the go-to playwright if you want a feminist slant on patriarchy in the industrial...

“As You Like It”at The Oregon Shakespeare Festival

Posted by Taylor L. Ciambra | 11th Jun 2019 | Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America

To take the title of dramaturg Amrita Ramanan’s program note, As You Like It is “a comedy that...

Criticizing Patriarchy and the Status Quo in Iraq: A One-Woman Show

Posted by Amir Al-Azraki | 9th Jun 2019 | Iraq, Review, Theatre and Gender

On May 2nd, 2019, at The Institute of Fine Arts in Basra, Banin Abbas, an Iraqi actor, and...

In Suzie Miller’s “Prima Facie,” Theatre Finds a Voice of Reckoning on Sexual Assault and The Law

Posted by Bryoni Trezise | 8th Jun 2019 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Gender

Suzie Miller’s one-woman play Prima Facie is an unsparing study of the Australian legal system’s...

salt. at The Royal Court

Posted by Duška Radosavljević | 1st Jun 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom

A hit of the Edinburgh Fringe 2017, Selina Thompson’s one-woman show salt is on at the Royal Court...

Retro Productions’ “Mary, Mary”

Posted by Abigail Weil | 16th May 2019 | New York, Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America

The makeover story arc is a time-honored Hollywood tradition. Audrey Hepburn made several (Funny...

Hidden Women Of History: Eliza Winstanley, Colonial Stage Star And Our First Female Richard III

Posted by Jane Woollard | 14th May 2019 | Australia, Essay, Theatre and Gender

In this series, we look at under-acknowledged women through the ages. In December 1882, Eliza...

“There Is More Future Than Past” And “A Room of One’s Own”: Documentary Play About Latin American Women Artists

Posted by Clarisse Zarvos | 12th May 2019 | Brazil, Documentary Theatre, Portugal, Review, Theatre and Decolonization, Theatre and Gender

In the early twentieth century, Virginia Woolf published the essay Room of One’s Own, based...

“Top Girls” at The National Theatre

Posted by Duška Radosavljević | 10th May 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom

Written only as recently as 1981, Caryl Churchill’s modern classic Top Girls has already been on...

“The Half God Of Rainfall” at The Kiln Theatre: A Galaxy-Hopping Mythological Mash-up

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 8th May 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom

If British theatre often seems to lack ambition, the same cannot be said of The Half God Of...

Zoe Cooper’s “Out Of Water” At The Orange Tree Theatre: Feelgood Gender Issues

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 7th May 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom

Most new writing for the British stage is timid in subject matter, predictable in plotting and...

New Play Examines Shakespeare’s Gender Politics: Sarah Delahunty’s “This Long Winter”

Posted by David O'Donnell | 29th Apr 2019 | New Zealand, Review, Theatre and Gender

Despite being dead for 400 years and having lived and worked on the far side of Planet Earth,...

Veteran Kenyan Actress Returns to Stage With Feminist Show

Posted by Alexander Nderitu | 28th Apr 2019 | Kenya, News, Theatre and Gender

Veteran Kenyan thespian Mŭmbi Kaigwa returns to the stage on 25th April 2019 for a single showing...

“Top Girls” at The National Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 23rd Apr 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom

Caryl Churchill is a phenomenal artist. Not only has she written a huge body of work, but each...

Working Off-Script: Transgender Awareness in Iranian Black Box Theatres: An Interview with Sāmān Arasṭoo

Posted by Farinaz Kavianifar | 14th Apr 2019 | Interview, Iran, LGBTQ+ Theatre, Theatre and Gender

February 15, 2019, Café Markov, Tehran, Iran Sāmān Arasṭoo is an Iranian actor and theatre...

Misogyny On Trial: Miguel del Arco’s Verbatim Production Offers A New Trial For “La Manada”

Posted by Maria Delgado | 7th Apr 2019 | Review, Spain, Theatre and Gender

At El Pavón Teatro Kamikaze, Jordi Casanovas has crafted a double bill of verbatim plays dealing...

Block Party and “Rotterdam” at the Kirk Douglas

Posted by Christine Deitner | 5th Apr 2019 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, Los Angeles, Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America

The Center Theatre Group’s second Block Party show at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Century City is...

A Street Play That Conveyed Hard-Hitting Messages On Body Shaming

Posted by Nivedita Ganguly | 4th Apr 2019 | Devised Theatre, Festivals, India, News, Theatre and Gender

The 20-minute street play was presented by Faces, the theatre group of GITAM University. In a...

Necessary Questions: On Representation And Role Of Women In Egypt’s Theatre

Posted by Nora Amin | 4th Apr 2019 | Egypt, News, Theatre and Gender

As March brings along Women’s Day and Mother’s Day, the Egyptian stage should do its part. But how...

Sasha Velour’s “Smoke & Mirrors”: Long Live The Queen

Posted by Abigail Weil | 29th Mar 2019 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, New York, Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America

Is Sasha Velour a drag queen? It’s debatable. She’s certainly a drag royalty, having won the ninth...

Theatre and Gender

Githa Sowerby’s “Rutherford And Son” at The National Theatre

“As You Like It”at The Oregon Shakespeare Festival

Criticizing Patriarchy and the Status Quo in Iraq: A One-Woman Show

In Suzie Miller’s “Prima Facie,” Theatre Finds a Voice of Reckoning on Sexual Assault and The Law

salt. at The Royal Court

Retro Productions’ “Mary, Mary”

Hidden Women Of History: Eliza Winstanley, Colonial Stage Star And Our First Female Richard III

“There Is More Future Than Past” And “A Room of One’s Own”: Documentary Play About Latin American Women Artists

“Top Girls” at The National Theatre

“The Half God Of Rainfall” at The Kiln Theatre: A Galaxy-Hopping Mythological Mash-up

Zoe Cooper’s “Out Of Water” At The Orange Tree Theatre: Feelgood Gender Issues

New Play Examines Shakespeare’s Gender Politics: Sarah Delahunty’s “This Long Winter”

Veteran Kenyan Actress Returns to Stage With Feminist Show

Working Off-Script: Transgender Awareness in Iranian Black Box Theatres: An Interview with Sāmān Arasṭoo

Misogyny On Trial: Miguel del Arco’s Verbatim Production Offers A New Trial For “La Manada”

Block Party and “Rotterdam” at the Kirk Douglas

A Street Play That Conveyed Hard-Hitting Messages On Body Shaming

Necessary Questions: On Representation And Role Of Women In Egypt’s Theatre

Sasha Velour’s “Smoke & Mirrors”: Long Live The Queen

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