Pulitzer-Prize Winning Play “The Gin Game” Returns To Hong Kong
Why We Recommend it This widely-acclaimed play explores themes of loneliness, loss, helplessness,...
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Toto Too’s “Cloudburst” Is Rich In Truth And Humanity
Cloudburst, Toto Too Theatre’s latest offering is a funny, profane, warm-hearted play about the...
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“Allelujah!” at The Bridge Theatre
The NHS is us. For decades our national identity has been bandaged together with the idea, and...
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“Still Life With Chickens:” New Samoan Play Confronts Loneliness Through Comedy
Samoan playwright David Fa’auliuli Mamea’s Still Life With Chickens won the 2017 Adam Award for...
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“Five Easy Pieces”: Milo Rau’s Extraordinary Work About Child Murderer
It’s not often that a children’s theatre features a piece about a pedophile and child murderer...
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Foster On Aging: Amusing But Often Tasteless
Jones And Barry In The Home by Norm Foster; a 3P Productions, Directed by Derek Ritschel As we...
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Edward Albee’s “Three Tall Women”: A Dissent
My reaction to Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women when it first arrived in New York in 1994 was...
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Mind The Gap: Theatre Group For The Over 60s Helps Salisbury Playhouse Cater For All
One of the things Salisbury Playhouse tries to do is provide opportunities for everyone in the...
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The Art Of Ageing Theatre Project
A first glance at the website for “The Art of Ageing” theatre project may lead you to...
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Monster Mashup: Mabou Mines Takes On Tennessee Williams
The ghost of Mary Shelley keeps rudely interrupting Mabou Mines’s Glass Guignol: The Brother And...
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Come On A My House: “Fireflies” at The Long Wharf Theatre
The kitchen of an aging spinster in a small town in Texas may be an unlikely place to find...
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Spanning Centuries: PTP’s “Arcadia”
The Potomac Theatre Project (PTP) has descended on Atlantic Stage 2’s subterranean bunker of a...
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“Autumn on Pluto” Project Provides Aid to Geriatric Patients
Two years before creating Autumn on Pluto, Sashko Brama visited a geriatric home while helping his...
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“Escaped Alone”: Catastrophe and Fear Meet Surrealism
Like Beckett and Pinter, Caryl Churchill is writing fugues in old age (she’s 77). Far Away, A...
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Women on the Verge: Caryl Churchill’s “Escaped Alone”
In an 1896 essay on “The Tragic in Daily Life,” the Symbolist playwright Maurice Maeterlinck...
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Last Spring, Dementia Made It to Broadway! Part 2
Last spring, dementia made it to Broadway! Let me be clear: I am an Avant-garde type and I am wary...
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Dementia: The Theater Season’s “In” Disease Part 1
Not so long ago characters didn’t lose their memories onstage, even if on rare occasion actors...
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A Golden Age of Theater for Japan’s Seniors
At the age of 91, Saitama resident Izumi Noguchi is speaking at his first press conference — at...
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National Theatre Asks Actors Over-80 to Improvise Play Without Script
A new play staged by the National Theatre will thrust actors in their 70s and 80s onto the stage...
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“Seventeen” at Belvoir – A Brilliant Theatrical Event
Our experience of plays is always profoundly affected by how they end: comedy or tragedy, death or...
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