Artist Entrance: Kelly Copper
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Blurring Borders Between Performers and Audience in Kozhikode
Imitation of Death staged in Kozhikode Imitation of Death, a play staged at Zamorin’s Higher...
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“Blood Knot,” A 60-Year-Old Message
Blood Knot, by legendary South African playwright Athol Fugard, which ran at the Market Theatre in...
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“Trouble In Mind,” National Theatre
The National Theatre has a good record in staging classic American drama by black playwrights....
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“The Red on the Rainbow,” A Brave and Important Play
In 2017, Coligny, a small dorpie in Bokone Bophirima (North West Province), was thrown into the...
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About “Fair Play”
It’s a sign of the times that one of my last trips of the year, to Ella Road’s Fair Play at the...
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Saitama Gold Theater Players Take Their Final Bow After 15 Years
After 15 years of entertaining audiences in Japan and abroad, the actors of Saitama Gold Theater...
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“Best of Enemies,” Young Vic
At the end of the 1960s, American soul poet Gil Scott-Heron said that the revolution will not be...
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Kennedy Center Dramaturgy Intensive 2021 Retrospective
In the face of many challenges in Summer 2021, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts...
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“As Soon As Impossible”: An Arab-American Comedy of Errors
Where and when: Harry J. Elam, Jr. Theater at Stanford University from November 11, 12, 13, 18,...
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Nireeksha Women’s Theatre Group Develops Short Stories by Nine Women Writers as Radio Plays
The drama series is an initiative for She Radio on Radio Malayalam Mission, Government of Kerala...
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Here’s to the Ladies who Lunch: One of Sondheim’s Greatest Achievements was Writing Complex Women
The most eclectic of music theatre composers was not only a gifted wordsmith and lyricist, but...
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What is Theatre of the Oppressed? Artiste and Activist Sanjoy Ganguly Explains
Sanjoy Ganguly, pioneer of Theatre of the Oppressed in the country, was recently in Chennai for a...
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How Enid Blyton Created the Template for Children’s Theatre in Britain
Head to London’s West End and you are likely to find all sorts of plays for families, inspired by...
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Zadie Smith: How “The Wife of Willesden” Brings to Life Chaucer’s Tale of Sex and Power
It could be easy to assume that The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories written in Middle...
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Hollywood Has Got Method Acting All Wrong, Here’s What the Process is Really About
So-called method acting seems to be having a moment. Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten...
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Hustling at the Bottom of the Stand-Up Pyramid
All the rage in Beijing’s stand-up circuit, Pazilye Parhat says much of comedy stems from...
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Stephen Sondheim Showed Me the Beauty, Terror and Exquisite Pain of Being Alive
What did Stephen Sondheim mean to me? This is an attempt to bring order to the chaos. My first...
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Realities Blend Together in Arlekin Players’ “Witness”
A daring and nuanced documentary virtual theatre piece about Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany...
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“Dance Like a Man” Keeps Time to Inherent Family Tunes
The classic play ‘Dance Like a Man’ captures the subtle undertones found in familial...
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“Metsi”: A Tapestry of Creativity
Metsi, staged at the State Theatre is a daring and brave production in how it includes elements of...
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About “Milk and Gall”
A couple of days ago, I watched a live stream of Milk and Gall, an American-based playwright and...
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“You Will Never Walk Alone”: A Story of Resilience and Hope
Ten mentor Mothers and one Father, devised theatre, drama therapy, healing, and community...
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“Old Bridge”, Bush Theatre
Is the Bosnian conflict of 1992–95 the war that Europe forgot? Maybe, although most fans of new...
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In “Shaka Zulu: The Gaping Wound”, the Past is Present
Shaka Zulu: The Gaping Wound currently running at the South African State Theatre in Pretoria, and...
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Dante Meets Bharatanatyain This Experimental Theatre Performance at Ranga Shankara
Italian theatre director Anna Dora Dorno talks about her project, Dante Beyond Borders. Italy was...
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“Sessions”, Soho Theatre
After lockdown, the stage monologue saved British theatre. At venue after venue, cash-strapped...
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Every three years 1000 young dancers from all over the world audition for PARTS, the renowned school for contemporary dance in Brussels, directed by choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. Every three years, only 40 are chosen...
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Alaknanda Samarth Pushed the Limits of “Safe” Theatre
A few days ago, I lost one of my dearest theatre friends, my most avid and soul-searching...
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A Fight Against… (Una Lucha Contra…): Interview with Pablo Manzi and William Gregory
A Fight Against… (Una Lucha Contra…) marks Chilean playwright Pablo Manzi’s English-language...
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Artist Entrance: Florentina Holzinger
Every month, Etcetera gazes into the soul of a performing artist. We choose artistic interest over...
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“Toolbox Manoeuvre”: The Beat of Hong Kong On Stage
Louis Siu is performing the oldest known musical practice in the world, in a coffee shop in North...
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“Trouble in Mind”, National Theatre
The National Theatre has a good record in staging classic American drama by black playwrights....
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“Sparky”: Engaging Theatre for Children and Young Adults
A day at the National Children’s Theatre in the magical IMAGINATION Outdoor Theatre is a day like...
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China Asks: How Many Cultural Landmarks Is Too Many?
Chinese cities have established thousands of new museums over the past two decades, but...
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Five of Stephen Sondheim’s Best Shows
A musical theatre legend has died. Stephen Sondheim, the greatest composer-lyricist of his...
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The Music of Words: The Metropolitan Opera’s “Eurydice”
If you’ve never seen an opera before, start here. If you’ve seen a ton of opera before, re-start...
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(Not) Adapting to the French Stage: “Les Producteurs”, directed by Alexis Michalik, at the Théâtre de Paris
A week after Josephine Baker posthumously entered the French Panthéon, a musical about two...
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All You Need to Know About 28th Edition of Cairo Int’l Festival for Experimental Theatre
The 28th edition of the Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theater (CIFET) takes place...
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“Cabaret” at the Playhouse Theatre
Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome! Come on in: we need, after all, some respite from a world in...
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“Krotoa Eva Van De Kaap”: Artscape
Krotoa Eva van de Kaap is a moving music theatre production that was first performed in The...
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“Bedside Manner” Review: Milnerton Players
[responsivevoice buttontext=”Play”]Opposite to “all good things come to an end” is “so...
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Five Plays about Enslavement by Black British Women Playwrights
“There’s a sidestep that Europe does where it takes itself out of the triangle… I’m never quite...
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New Opera “Yuzuru” Cautions Against the Dangers of Capitalism
For his first foray into the realm of opera, dramatist Toshiki Okada is tackling Ikuma Dan’s...
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Hustling at the Bottom of the Stand-Up Pyramid
All the rage in Bejing’s stand-up circuit, Pazilye Parhat says much of comedy stems from genuine...
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“Sessions,” Soho Theatre
After lockdown, the stage monologue saved British theatre. At venue after venue, cash-strapped...
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“The Doctor” Diagnoses Society’s Afflictions
After its premiere at north London’s Almeida Theatre in 2019, Robert Icke’s The Doctor earned...
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Outside Theatre: Why It Mustn’t Stop After the Pandemic
Indoor theatre is back. Despite audiences being inscrutable in masks, I’ve seen two packed shows...
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“Rare Earth Mettle,” Royal Court
Why are we indifferent to anti-Semitism? In the past few weeks the Royal Court, a proud citadel of...
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Nonverbal “King Lear” Review – Conflict in Visuals, Sounds, and Imaginations
What has been left after all well-written dialogues, which were once deemed to be the spirit of...
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