Interview with James Shapiro on Adaptation of Shakespeare Plays on the Contemporary Stage
James Shapiro is a Shakespeare scholar and a professor of English and Comparative Literature at...
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Adishakti Theatre Arts’ Latest Musical Turns The Lens On Sexual Assault And Power Politics At The Workplace
Adishakti Theatre Arts’ latest musical, Bhoomi, is adapted from Sarah Joseph’s Malayalam play,...
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“Playing Beatie Bow” is Brought to Thundering Life in a Joyous Stage Production
Playing Beatie Bow is the coming-of-age story of the teenage Abigail, who, from her home in...
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Pining for St Kilda Instead of Moscow: “The Cherry Orchard” Grapples With Our Cultural Inheritance
Review: The Cherry Orchard, directed by Clare Watson. Black Swan State Theatre Company for the...
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Playing Richard
Though theatrical season 2020/2021 isn’t the most eventful, it has brought to the stage number of...
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The Story Of Shakuntala And Dushyant Set In Contemporary Times Reaches Broadway
The Mahabharata’s Shakuntala and Dushyant find themselves in a modern-day setting, addressing the...
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Digital Ghost: The Modern Vignette Between Two Worlds. Ansky’s “The Dybbuk” on Zoom
This article has been translated from it’s original Yiddish by Vassili Schedrin The year...
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“The Dybbuk” Or a Play Possessing Audiences for a Century
December 9, 2020, marked an important anniversary in Jewish theater history: a centennial of the...
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Shoebox Musicals: A Story of TikTok, The Pandemic, “Ratatouille The Musical”, And The Wizard Conquering Them All
Recently a friend sent me a message that read, “I’m not sure if you have TikTok, but...
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“The Prom”: The Challenges of Adapting The Stage to The Screen
There is growing excitement for the star-studded release of the Netflix film adaptation of the...
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Adapting Tarots in Performance: LipZinc’s “Talking Tarots”
In his very famous book The Castle of the Crossed Destinies (Il castello dei destini incrociati,...
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Adapting Gianni Rodari in Improv Theatre: an Interview with Luca Rizzuti on “Grammatica Della Fantasia”
Gianni Rodari is a cult writer and, probably, one of the most influential in the Italian...
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“Waiting for Gretchen: Faust” – Teater Republique
Faustimir and Mephistragon The misery of the aging white man, who once diligently studied...
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National School of Drama Prepares for First Production with Pandemic Protocols
With a larger than usual stage, spaced out seating for a masked audience and actors armed with...
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Will Theatre Go Back to the Open?
As Agnipankh is televised, Mita Vashisht reflects on the shifts in theatre due to the pandemic....
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Plots Behind the Closed Curtains: Naguib Mahfouz’s “Wedding Song” on Cairo Stage
Basing his work on Naguib Mahfouz’s 1981 polyphonic novel Afrah Al-Qobba’s Wedding...
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“Call From”: A Web Series with Hilarity and Heart
Zoom plays can feel a little dry. I’m sure, after months of this quarantine, we’ve all had the...
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Chinese Director Wang Chong Publishes “Online Theatre Manifesto”
The Lunar New Year of 2020 struck Chinese people as unprecedented as Coronavirus forced Wuhan to...
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Joburg Theatre Stages Zakes Mda’s “Dead End” as First Live Audience Production
After the unforeseen Covid-19 induced a public events hiatus where all forms of public gatherings,...
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Upper Egyptian Adaptation Of Shakespeare’s Hamlet To Return At Cairo Opera
The Al-Talei’a Theatre troupe is gearing up for two performances of their play Al-Seirah...
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