Entering “Yellow Inn”: A Conversation Between the Playwright and Translator, Part 1
Interview and translation by Kee-Yoon Nahm with contributions from Laura Gisondi. Lee Kang-baek is...
Read MorePosted by Kee-Yoon Nahm | 15th Sep 2019 | Adaptation, Interview, Playwriting, South Korea, Theatre and Politics, Translation
Interview and translation by Kee-Yoon Nahm with contributions from Laura Gisondi. Lee Kang-baek is...
Read MorePosted by Walter Byongsok Chon | 14th Feb 2019 | Interview, Playwriting, South Korea
Hansol Jung is a playwright and director from South Korea. Her plays include Wild Goose Dreams (La...
Read MorePosted by Jasper Delbecke and Sébastien Hendrickx | 18th Jan 2019 | Essay, South Korea, Transmedia
Essayisting Figures On Stage The influence of the essay as a means of expression has long reached...
Read MorePosted by Walter Byongsok Chon | 18th Aug 2018 | Adaptation, Festivals, Interview, South Korea
Korean theatre company YVUA ARTS makes their Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut with About Lady White...
Read MorePosted by Claire Swyzen | 16th Jun 2018 | Directing, Review, South Korea, Transmedia
A shallow learning-play In Deep Present (2018) Seoul-based director Jisun Kim stages four...
Read MorePosted by Kee-Yoon Nahm | 20th May 2018 | Interview, South Korea, Theatre and Gender, Theatre and Politics
In the past few months, the Korean theatre scene has been under intense public scrutiny as...
Read MorePosted by Kee-Yoon Nahm | 11th May 2018 | Adaptation, Review, South Korea
In Han Tae-sook’s Electra (LG Arts Center, April 26–May 5, 2018), the mourning daughter doesn’t...
Read MorePosted by Kim Namseok | 21st Apr 2018 | Review, South Korea
Busan. Once a small, quiet town and the Joseon Kingdom’s first open port, it changed completely in...
Read MorePosted by Song Minsook | 7th Apr 2018 | Musical Theatre, Review, South Korea
I went to the Seoul Donhwamun Traditional Theatre in early November, the night of the first full...
Read MorePosted by Lee Chin-A | 24th Mar 2018 | Adaptation, Immersive Theatre, Review, South Korea, Theatre and Dance
Theatre adaptations of novels are on the rise this season. Of course, this is nothing new....
Read MorePosted by Elaine Chiew | 19th Feb 2018 | Review, South Korea, Theatre and Opera
Euripides’ play Trojan Women has been adapted and performed numerous times around the world, from...
Read MorePosted by Michael Schweikardt | 9th Feb 2018 | Design, Interview, Musical Theatre, South Korea
I love Titanic, the sweeping Broadway musical with a book by Peter Stone and a score by Maury...
Read MorePosted by Kee-Yoon Nahm | 26th Jan 2018 | Review, South Korea, Theatre and Politics
This is Part 2 of a two-part article. Read Part 1 here. From Caregiver to Citizen The Nurses, Who...
Read MorePosted by Kee-Yoon Nahm | 20th Jan 2018 | Review, South Korea, Theatre and Politics
The word dongpo, a term that refers affectionately to the sizable Korean immigrant community...
Read MorePosted by Kee-Yoon Nahm | 13th Jan 2018 | Review, South Korea, Theatre and Art, Transmedia
In 2007, visual artist Jewyo Rhii and curator Hyunjin Kim held an unusual exhibition titled Ten...
Read MorePosted by Walter Byongsok Chon | 2nd Jan 2018 | Interview, Musical Theatre, New York, South Korea, Transcultural Collaborations
To read Part I of the series on KPOP, click here. For the article, I spoke with Jason Kim and...
Read MorePosted by Walter Byongsok Chon | 1st Jan 2018 | Essay, Musical Theatre, New York, South Korea, Transcultural Collaborations, United States of America
In the last few months of 2017, K-pop (Korean pop) has made it into U.S. news reports in two...
Read MorePosted by Kim Hyang | 31st Dec 2017 | Adaptation, Musical Theatre, Review, South Korea, Theatre and Opera
Audiences laughed throughout Ko Sun-woong’s new work Heungbo-ssi (written and directed by Ko...
Read MorePosted by Kee-Yoon Nahm | 22nd Dec 2017 | Education, Interview, Playwriting, South Korea
Award-winning South Korean playwright and educator Ko Yeon-ok reflects about her teaching practice...
Read MorePosted by Kee-Yoon Nahm | 22nd Dec 2017 | Education, Interview, Playwriting, South Korea
Award-winning South Korean playwright and educator Ko Yeon-ok reflects about her teaching practice...
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