The Revolution of Tragedies: An Interview with Romanian Director Andrei Majeri
During the very agonic and snail-slow, first foggy year under COVID of 2020, I met theater...
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Ambiguity and Amorality: Is Douglas Stewart’s “Ned Kelly” One of Australia’s Great Forgotten Plays?
In 1943, Dolia Ribush, a Russian-speaking Latvian theatre director of medium height and...
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Bell Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” Highlights the “Claustrophobic Personal Dynamics” of Shakespeare’s Play
In a speech to the United Kingdom’s House of Commons on March 9, Ukrainian President Volodymyr...
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“The Human Voice” at Harold Pinter Theatre
Is there really such a thing as an unmissable show? Depends on your taste of course, but for sheer...
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“Red Pitch”, Bush Theatre
Football stories are never just about a game — they are also about life and how to live it. In...
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“The Forest,” Hampstead Theatre
Let’s start with stereotypes: British theater is naturalistic, down-to-earth and explains...
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Dmitry Krymov Plumbs the Depths of Memory (part 2)
This is part 2 of a piece on Dmitry Krymov’s Everyone Is Here. For part 1, click here. Along...
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Dmitry Krymov Plumbs the Depths of Memory (part 1)
There is one wonderful detail in the Russian language. The letter E (“ye”) can be absolutely...
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Exit interview: Dubravka Vrgoč
Dubravka Vrgoč, General and Artistic Director of the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, is set...
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“Peggy For You,” Hampstead Theatre
Peggy Ramsay is a theater legend. Around the time of her death in 1991, the Australian-born agent...
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Sensation and Documentation: Jody Christopherson’s “Tussaud/Antoinette”
The name “Tussaud” has always been linked to sensationalism and popular culture: now synonymous...
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A Conversation with Director Ashley Tata
Ashley Tata is a Brooklyn-based director and maker of multimedia works. I had the pleasure of...
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Sound and Emotion: Anson Mak’s New Documentary
It’s hard to categorize Anson Mak Hoi-shan. In a video call in early March, the only time the...
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Artists’ Entry: Tiago Rodrigues
Since he started out as an actor, 20 years ago, Tiago Rodrigues has always looked at theater as a...
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Repertoire Readings: Connecting the Past to the Present: Farinaz Kavianifar Interview with Ruhollah Jafari
Giti Theatre Group broke records raising funds for flood victims in Lorestan, Iran with a...
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Interview with Ossama Halal on Experimenting with Physical Theatre and Beyond
Ossama Halal is a Syrian theater director, choreographer, and actor. He started his artistic...
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Who Let the “Lady of Pestilence” In?
The Jerzy Szaniawski Dramatic Theater in Wałbrzych opens the season with a play built on one of...
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Choosing the Stories You Tell: An Interview with Kelley Girod
We live in a world that is demanding change, moving at a rapid pace while simultaneously crawling...
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A Son, His Father, and Steampunk: Reliving Days of Future Past
Filmmaker Sun Yang discusses his recent documentary about visual artist Ma Liang, also known as...
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“Comfort and Joy” Just When We Need it the Most: A Conversation with Director Aoife Spillane-Hinks
Director Aoife Spillane-Hinks has quite the origin story for her entry into theatre. As the story...
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