Chekhov’s “Three Sisters” at the Almeida Theatre
“I’m bored, bored, bored.” The refrain, occasionally spoken but frequently felt, is at the heart...
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It’s Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” But Not As You Know It
With praise for his Hamlet with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2016 still ringing in his ears —...
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Stories From The Soul: “Topi Ki Dastaan”, A Play Based On The Popular Hindi nNovel Topi Shukla
Director Tarique Hameed on why Dastaan Narration Form is the best way to narrate the story of Topi...
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“Jude” at The Hampstead Theatre: Adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s 1895 Tragic Novel, “Jude The Obscure”
Edward Hall bids farewell to this venue, where he has been artistic director since 2010, with this...
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Susan Stein’s “Etty”
In 1942, responding to the announcement that people of Japanese ancestry on the American west...
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Absurdist Comedy “Every Good Boy Deserves Favour” Gets Its Japan Debut
Tom Stoppard is one of the most influential figures in theater today and one of the most...
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David Herskovits’ “Marjana And The Forty Thieves”
You know The Thousand And One Nights both better and worse than you realize. You may know it by a...
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“El Coronel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba” At Harlem Stage
Creating riveting theater out of the problem of a bureaucratic oversight is no easy feat. Luckily...
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East Meets West In An English Retelling Of “The Legend Of The White Snake”
Why We Recommend it The opera Madame White Snake tells the story of a demon’s incessant pursuit of...
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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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