Tears of a Clown: “American Juggalo”
What is a juggalo? Let me think for a second…Oh! He gets butt-naked and then he walks through the...
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Brecht In Exile: “Galileo” In Brooklyn
New York’s Irondale Project presents a scrupulously faithful production of Brecht’s The Life Of...
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“Kinkakuji:” Staging A Japanese Classic With A German Twist
A new opera based on the quintessentially Japanese novel Kinkakuji is set to open in Tokyo...
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“The Tempest” At The Pittsburgh Public Theater In Pittsburgh, PA, USA
A couple of decades ago my then-colleague Jan Hagens introduced me to a genre categorization that...
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Sleuthing With Slingsby
Erich Kästner’s 90-year-old German novella Emil Und Die Detektive (Emil And The Detectives), a...
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“Crime And Punishment”: The Crime You’ll Be Glad You Were A Witness To
In a scoop for Tokyo, Theatre Cocoon in Shibuya Ward is set to mark the new year with the world...
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“Minding Frankie”: A Canadian Premiere Of An Irish Adaptation Goes Straight To The Heart!
The narrative voices of Irish novelist and playwright Maeve Binchy that emerge in Minding Frankie...
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The Play That Never Sleeps: “Macbeth” In China
As we neared the elevator doors, a woman dressed in a beautiful 1930s-era gown directed us to keep...
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A Review of “Disgrace” from the 2018 Boska Komedia Festival: Fascinating but Problematic Theatre
Hańba [Disgrace] directed by Marcin Wierzchowski. Presented at Teatr Ludowy—Scena Stolarnia for...
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Theatre Review: Xameleon Theatre Presents “A Dog’s Heart”–”A Brilliantly Clever Production”
In a memorable production, Xameleon Theatre recently brought Mikhail Bulgakov’s complex novel A...
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Dystopian Fairy Tale: Faezeh Jalali Adapts Vineet Bhalla’s Award Winning Play, “A Farming Story,” For The Mumbai Stage
The prolific theatremaker Faezeh Jalali has once again emerged from a strenuous and demanding...
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Nick Stafford’s “War Horse” At The National Theatre
In the days after the widespread commemorations of the 100th anniversary of the end of the first...
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Zadie Smith’s “White Teeth” at The Kiln Theatre
You can see why artistic director Indhu Rubasingham chose to stage this version of Zadie Smith’s...
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Dead Centre’s “Chekhov’s First Play”
Also known as Platonov or the Play Without A Title, Chekhov’s first playtext, written when he was...
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Theatre Review: Xameleon Theatre’s “The Little Prince”–”A Play For Young And Old”
First published in 1943 in New York, the story of the little prince and his travels hasn’t lost...
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A New Take On “An Enemy Of The People” Fizzes With Contemporary Relevance
The fitness of Henrik Ibsen’s plays to address the political questions of our modern lives renews...
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An Adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s “Watt” Questions Being And Perception
It resembled a pot, it was almost a pot, but it was not a pot of which one could say, Pot, pot,...
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Jasmin Vardimon: Adapting “Medusa” Myth In The Liquid Modernity Age
Choreographer Jasmin Vardimon’s new show, Medusa, is a multiple and composite piece of art that is...
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Hal Coase’s “Mrs. Dalloway” At The Arcola Theatre
Since Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway was first published in 1925 its reputation as a brilliant...
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