Four Times Shakespeare Has Inspired Stories About Robots and AI
Science fiction is a genre very much associated with technological marvels, innovations, and...
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“Cinderella” At the Masque: Review
CINDERELLA. A two-act musical. Written and directed by Faeron Wheeler. Musical Director: Tersia...
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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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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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Little Things We Do Together—Marianne Elliott’s “Company”
As most people reading this will already know, Company was first reworked for a female Bobbie...
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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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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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Rena Matsui Tackles Shakespeare in an All-Female “Julius Caesar”
Rena Matsui always knew she wanted to enter the acting world, and launching her career by...
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“Cruel Games”—A Soviet Play in Post-Soviet Realities
Cruel Games at the Mossovet Theater is not just the name of a forgotten play by Alexei Arbuzov,...
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“Balkan Bordello” at Teatri Oda
Balkan Bordello: An Orgiastic Musical in the Aftermath of War Imagine yourself at a hedonistic...
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Re-Imagined Play Stirs Memories of “White Mischief” in Colonial Africa
Miss Julie’s Happy Valley is the most recent work by playwright Michael Omoke. The new play...
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“A Raisin in the Sun”: A Timeless Classic
Directed by South African theatre and film industry stalwart Dr. Jerry Mofokeng wa Makhetha, A...
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COVID—Brevis, Ars—Longa
It’s trite to write about how hard it is to live from lockdown to lockdown; from one mask...
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The Tragedy of Macbeth, Almeida Theatre
Remembering the months of lockdown, I can’t be the only person to thrill to this play’s opening...
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“Viviani on the Road”: a Special Project of the Trianon Viviani Theatre in Naples.
The special project “Viviani on the Road” at the Trianon Viviani Theatre offers an historical travel into the main streets of Naples.
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“The Tragedy of Macbeth” at the Almeida Theatre
What does it take to stretch Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy to a runtime of over three hours? Not,...
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Fake News and Propaganda Machines: New Theatre Production Pulls “Animal Farm” into the Now
In 1937, George Orwell witnessed a boy whipping a horse. This was a catalyst for his novel Animal...
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From Pygmies to Puppets: What to Do with Roald Dahl’s Enslaved Oompa-Loompas in Modern Adaptations?
The stage adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has opened in Brisbane. Charlie, like...
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A Play Inspired by Bharati’s Verses
How S.V. Sahasranamam’s stage adaptation of the poet’s Panchali Sabadham became a huge success...
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Hilary Mantel and Ben Miles’s The Mirror and the Light at the Gielgud Theatre: Engaging, but Rather Low Key
This is a labor of love. Hilary Mantel has adapted The Mirror and the Light, the third novel of...
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