The 2026 International Ibsen Award: A Reflection On The Winner By The Committee
A week ago today, the winner of the 2026 Ibsen International Award was announced by the Norwegian...
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Who’s Afraid of the Public? Reports from the Daehangno X Forum on the Shut-Down of TheatreIn
“Can we just disband the Seoul Foundation for the Arts and Culture entirely and start over?” A...
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Five Young Performance Artists Unravel the Meaning of Tradition: A Review of “Practicing Freedom”
In the intimate setting of a small black box theatre, audience members find themselves not in the...
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Wajdi Mouawad’s “Littoral”: Searching for Peace Through the Devastation of War
Sejong Center for the Performing Arts (artistic director, Sun-Woong Koh) staged the play Littoral...
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Find Your Voice, Loud and Clear: Musical “Il Tenore” Review
It is 1930s Kyeongseong (what Seoul was called during the Japanese occupation), and the colonial...
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Sensing Others through Dancing Bodies as Data: Review of Sense Datum by UBIN DANCE
In this day and age, the word data evokes preconceived images of algorithms, artificial...
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“Writing Using:” Framing the Body’s Process of Liberation Through Contemporary Dance
Writing Using is the most recent work by Ahn Aesoon, one of the most renowned contemporary dancers...
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Edinburgh International Festival 2023: “Trojan Women” By The National Theatre Of Korea
There are multiple ways to admire this production of a Greek classic, directed by Singaporean Ong...
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“KPOP” On Broadway: A Multisensory Feast of HEUNG
KPOP is a new musical, with a book by Jason Kim and music by Helen Park and Max Vernon. It...
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“Once Upon A (Korean) Time:” Review
The simplicity of the set was enriched with exquisite lighting design, by Oliver Wason, depicting the starry heavens above, exploding bombs, flocks of butterflies, even projections of characters.
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Daily Life under State Violence: Interview with South Korean Playwright Yun Mi Hyun, Part 2
To read Part 1 of this interview, click here. Nahm: Let’s talk now about Texas Aunt. I said...
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Daily Life under State Violence: Interview with South Korean Playwright Yun Mi Hyun, Part 1
Yun Mi Hyun is a playwright based in South Korea. After writing fiction and poetry in her early...
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“Legend of The Waitress & The Robber” – A Korean American Cross Cultural Collaboration Makes it to New York City
The Legend of The Waitress & The Robber, a new musical theater piece by Renee Philippi, a...
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“The Legend of the Waitress & the Robber”: World Premiere of NYC-Seoul Collaboration Inspired by Schiller and Hong Gildong
The Legend of The Waitress & The Robber is a collaboration between the Korean theatre...
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The Need to Recycle Forms the Core of this Korean Non-Verbal Play
Junk Clown, a Korean play for children, brings the concept of recycling to the table through mime....
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Asian Adaptations of Shakespeare Today
During the AAPI (Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders) heritage month, let us explore the...
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A Woman and an Immigrant, but Most of All, a Scientist: Musical “Marie Curie” Review
Marie Curie, whose image as an unsmiling scientist wearing a high-necked, black dress has been...
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Searching for the Origin of the Korean Wave: The Nanhee’s MIMAJI!
The Korean theatre company The Nanhee premiered its new production Mimaji!, written and directed...
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Battle Of The Sexes In The Midst Of A Refugee Crisis In Korea: “Big Love” By Ets (Eye To Soul)
The Korean theatre company ETS, which is an acronym for Eye To Soul, staged Charles Mee’s Big Love...
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Love, Labor, Loop: (Object’s) Life according to Geumhyung Jeong
The history of puppetry is full of supernatural bodies on stage that dramatically or subtextually...
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