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PQ 2019: A Dove is a Pigeon
One of my guiding principles in life is that the list of things I find beautiful should always be...
A Review of “Notes From Exile” from the 2018 Boska Komedia Festival: Reverberations of Antisemitism
Zapiski Z Wygnania [Notes from Exile] directed by Magda Umer. Presented at Narodowy Stary...
ALL LATEST FESTIVAL REPORTS
PQ 2019: A Dove is a Pigeon
One of my guiding principles in life is that the list of things I find beautiful should always be...
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Hollywood Fringe Festival – “The Death of Sam Mobean”
It’s been a challenge to know exactly where to begin with any kind of description of...
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PQ 2019: The Golden Triga
“Comrades,” said the woman in a loose zebra print dress and bright red lipstick, “this is not a...
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Hollywood Fringe Festival – “Twirly’s Traveling Tricks”
Though everywhere you look in Hollywood, CA these days it seems more old school bungalows and...
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PQ 2019: The Nation Unto Itself
When a work of art has the word “nation” in its title, it invites you to look for the “essential”...
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Zilele Teatrului Matei Vişniec/Festival of the Matéi Visniec Theatre in Suceava (Romania), Or Breaking Into the Festival Circuit
Arguably, it is not common practice to name a theatre after a living playwright, and neither is to...
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PQ 2019: A Taboo Collection From Budapest
This week, the New York Times posted an ad for a new fashion correspondent. The job ad reads, in...
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PQ 2019: Chaos and Kindness
The headquarters of the PQ is the Exhibition Grounds, but that’s not its boundaries. Between the...
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Hollywood Fringe Festival – “The Same Room”
On its 10th Anniversary, the Hollywood Fringe Festival and its almost 400 shows, events and...
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PQ 2019: A New Reality
The fourteenth installment of the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space (PQ) kicked...
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The Hollywood Fringe Festival – “The Bully Problem”
It’s Hollywood Fringe Festival time here in Los Angeles, and for those of you who are not...
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Participation in European Theatre: An Account of the European Theatre Conference, Dresden 2019
For the most part, theatre can be recognized as the art of the collective. The ETC (European Theatre Convention) is all about sustaining this collective, and at their annual conference between the 23rd-26th May in Dresden, Germany, they are proving that the collective is not only an integral part to theatre, but that participation can also be a key component.
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“Our Stage: European Bürgerbühne Festival”: Day Five, Wednesday
Pending Vote is a fully-interactive performance from Catalan director Roger Bernat, with a text by...
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“Our Stage: European Bürgerbühne Festival”: Day Four, Tuesday
Hungarian company ‘Lifeboat Unit – STEREO AKT’ bring their enticing and interactive performative...
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“Our Stage: European Bürgerbühne Festival”: Day Three, Monday
Heavy rain has restricted the opportunity to take a city walk around Dresden with festival...
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“Our Stage: European Bürgerbühne Festival”: Day Two, Sunday
The second day of the festival brings radiant, early-morning sunshine onto the Kleines Haus. Many...
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“Our Stage: European Bürgerbühne Festival”: Day One, Saturday
Here, at the annual ‘Our Stage Festival’ in Dresden, the average citizen is the center of the...
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“The Last Day of the Sun” at In Scena
The In Scena Festival is an ambitious undertaking. Presenting work each year by Italian artists,...
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Staging The Present Moment: International Festival of Iberian Expression Theatre
FITEI – International Festival of Iberian Expression Theater, taking place in Porto, Portugal,...
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Tam Kung: Hong Kong’s Seafaring Child God
Tam Kung is an enigmatic figure with little really known about his origins. The sea deity is...
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Prague Quadrennial 2019: Imagination, Transformation, Memory
This summer, a wonderful artistic tradition will return to the city of Prague, as the Czech...
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Performing Arts Festivals In France – Summer 2019
Summer returns with its numerous performing art festivals in France. From long-running and...
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First Egyptian Integrated Dance Show Spotlights Dancing With Disability
When you have any sort of injury, you are forced to listen to your body, which is reflected in...
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Performatik 2019 – Towards Indisciplinarity
The politics of (dis)association The sixth edition of Performatik, the Brussels Biennale for “live...
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“It Is All Very Satisfying”: Director Of India By The Nile, Ila Gupta On Her 25 Years In The Arts Field
Ila Gupta, the director, and producer of the annual festival dedicated to Indian arts is among the...
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Cultural Snacks In A Chinese Karaoke Bar: “Lucky Ping-Pong Dragon Karaoke”
Turbo bubble-tea brewing, participative economic discussions, and live, squirting orgasms were...
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The Third Edition Of Loja’s International Festival Of Living Arts, Ecuador (FIAVL 2018)
The third edition of the Festival of the Living Arts of Loja (FIAVL), the southernmost Ecuadorian...
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Why I Got Up On Stage At The Edinburgh Fringe To Explain My Research In Cabaret
Never had I felt such a terror. Not on the day of my wedding, nor the day of my most important job...
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“Dust” At D-CAF: An Operatic Dystopia With An Environmental Message
From Denmark to Cairo’s D-Caf Festival, Dust by Sew Flunk Fury Wit presents a blend of opera...
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The Aphra Behn Emerging Artists’ Festival
Curated by Rachel Tibbetts and Ellie Schwetye, produced by Slightly Askew Theatre Ensemble (SATE)....
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