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“Laughs In Spanish” Review

Posted by Amelia Parenteau | 25th Jun 2024 | Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America

Laughs in Spanish by Miami native Alexis Scheer is a love letter to her city, specifically the...

“The Harmony Test,” Hampstead Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 27th May 2024 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender

“Welcome to motherhood, bitch!” By the time a character delivers this reality check, there have...

“Gunter,” Royal Court

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 4th May 2024 | Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom

Readers who don’t think much of football won’t be surprised to hear that this tale of murder and...

New Play “The Exact Dimensions of Hell” Explores The Chaos And Contradiction Of Teenage Girlhood – And Witchcraft

Posted by Sarah Austin | 27th Apr 2024 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Gender

The relationship between witchcraft and teenage girls has been the subject of many books, films...

‘Strong Theatre With Unwavering Precision’: Into The Shimmering World Asks Us What Does It Mean To Be Good?

Posted by Ian Maxwell | 16th Apr 2024 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Gender

Angus Cerini’s Into the Shimmering World is an unforgiving and, frankly, bleak meditation on what...

The Silent Service of Women: Cayenne Douglass’s “Maiden Voyage” at The Flea

Posted by Rhiannon Ling | 2nd Apr 2024 | New York, Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America

“What kind of service do submarines provide?” asks the machine’s captain, Ricky Martin. “Silent...

“Teeth” Bites Back Against Purity Culture: On Michael R. Jackson and Anna K. Jacob’s Musical

Posted by Morgan Skolnik | 31st Mar 2024 | New York, Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America

Last year I went to the dentist for a toothache and was told that somehow, to my extreme...

“I Killed My Mother/It Wasn’t My Fault.” Which Way Does One Get to Come-of-Age?

Posted by Teodora Medeleanu | 25th Mar 2024 | India, Review, Theatre and Gender

The question of universality faces entire series of utterly new answers, but not all of them find...

What Can I Say?

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 12th Feb 2024 | Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America

Rachel Bonds’s Jonah—directed by Danya Taymor at the Roundabout’s Laura Pels Theatre— is one of...

Jez Butterworth’s “The Hills of California” at the Harold Pinter Theatre: Warm Evocation of 1950s Pop Culture Is Fun, But Lacks Dramatic Resolution

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 11th Feb 2024 | London, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom

In West End theatre, the cliché that nothing succeeds like success keeps the wheels of commerce...

On the “POTUS” Trail with Bekah Walsh

Posted by Trevor Boffone | 10th Feb 2024 | Theatre and Gender, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

Every day is a cunty day for Bekah Walsh. The Baltimore-based theatre nerd turned prolific...

Interview with Brilliant Les Dramaturx (Germany): Playfully, In the Sense of Autonomous Art, or Politically, In the Sense of Artivism.

Posted by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar | 26th Jan 2024 | Germany, Interview, Theatre and Art, Theatre and Gender

Christian Tschirner aka Soeren Voima (he/him – author, theater maker, Schauspielhaus...

Shifting the Spotlight: Exploring the Scarcity of Female Voices in Iraqi Theatre

Posted by Amir Al-Azraki | 7th Jan 2024 | Essay, Iraq, Playwriting, Theatre and Gender

Upon the release of Contemporary Plays from Iraq in 2017, my focus shifted to translating works...

“The Maids” by Genet: The Logic of the Paradox

Posted by Lisa Monde | 2nd Jan 2024 | France, Interview, Theatre and Gender, United States of America

Dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the first publication and production of Jean Genet’s unique...

“Faded:” Beyond the Dance

Posted by Kaggwa Andrew Mayiga | 28th Dec 2023 | Review, Theatre and Gender, Uganda

Nabaggala Lillian Maximilian has outdone herself by covering a lot of ground recently. A few months ago, she premiered a dance theatre production, Nambi, and exhibited a short film, Faded in Berlin. And barely a month after the...

“Vudú (3318) Blixen” or a Complex Naïve Way to Exorcise Pain

Posted by Antonio Hernández Nieto | 20th Dec 2023 | Review, Spain, Theatre and Gender

There is nothing like going to a world premiere. Being one of the first to see something brand...

Timelier Every Day: Kazimierska’s “Katie’s Tales”

Posted by Rhiannon Ling | 12th Dec 2023 | New York, Review, Theatre and Gender, Theatre and Politics, United States of America, Worldwide

“I do not know how to write,” Agnieszka Kazimierska’s Katie tells her audience. At this...

Venus and Adonis: this “play within a plague” about Shakespeare is wildly romantic, erotic and colorful

Posted by Kirk Dodd | 5th Nov 2023 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Gender

Shakespeare wrote his famous narrative poem Venus and Adonis in a lockdown era when, in 1593, the...

SheNYC Takes the Stage: “Fort Huachuca” and “Bloodshot” at A.R.T./NY

Posted by Rhiannon Ling | 1st Nov 2023 | New York, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America

To begin as we proceed, with full transparency, I have to admit how big a fan I am of SheNYC Arts...

James Fritz’s The Flea at the Yard Theatre: History Play Gives a Queer Reading of the Cleveland Street Scandal of 1889

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 24th Oct 2023 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom

Famous sex scandals don’t always make good plays. Although the tabloid nature of such events...

Theatre and Gender

“Laughs In Spanish” Review

“The Harmony Test,” Hampstead Theatre

“Gunter,” Royal Court

New Play “The Exact Dimensions of Hell” Explores The Chaos And Contradiction Of Teenage Girlhood – And Witchcraft

‘Strong Theatre With Unwavering Precision’: Into The Shimmering World Asks Us What Does It Mean To Be Good?

The Silent Service of Women: Cayenne Douglass’s “Maiden Voyage” at The Flea

“Teeth” Bites Back Against Purity Culture: On Michael R. Jackson and Anna K. Jacob’s Musical

“I Killed My Mother/It Wasn’t My Fault.” Which Way Does One Get to Come-of-Age?

What Can I Say?

Jez Butterworth’s “The Hills of California” at the Harold Pinter Theatre: Warm Evocation of 1950s Pop Culture Is Fun, But Lacks Dramatic Resolution

On the “POTUS” Trail with Bekah Walsh

Interview with Brilliant Les Dramaturx (Germany): Playfully, In the Sense of Autonomous Art, or Politically, In the Sense of Artivism.

Shifting the Spotlight: Exploring the Scarcity of Female Voices in Iraqi Theatre

“The Maids” by Genet: The Logic of the Paradox

“Faded:” Beyond the Dance

“Vudú (3318) Blixen” or a Complex Naïve Way to Exorcise Pain

Timelier Every Day: Kazimierska’s “Katie’s Tales”

Venus and Adonis: this “play within a plague” about Shakespeare is wildly romantic, erotic and colorful

SheNYC Takes the Stage: “Fort Huachuca” and “Bloodshot” at A.R.T./NY

James Fritz’s The Flea at the Yard Theatre: History Play Gives a Queer Reading of the Cleveland Street Scandal of 1889

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