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An Evening with Fats Waller: “Ain’t Misbehavin'” at TUTS
Before there was After Midnight, before there was Smokey Joe’s Cafe, and before there was Black...
VR and Theater Finally Make a Climate Baby: “From Sea To Rising Sea” Interview with Creator-Director-Choreographer Mary John Frank
Technology and the theater are closer together than ever, and our hope for the planet may depend...
Emerging Playwright Embarks on Gershwin Era Musical
American playwright and concert pianist, William Robert Martin, is an emerging artist whose star...
“(It’s Been 76 Years and We’re) Still Waiting for Lefty” – Theatre Unleashed at Hollywood Fringe Festival
Seventy-six years after Clifford Odets’ Waiting for Lefty premiered in New York, Theatre Unleashed...
Radical Representation: “Hi, Are You Single” Engages and Triumphs
Hypnotically charming, exquisitely flamboyant and the very embodiment of wit, Ryan J. Haddad wrote...
The Awe-Inspiring and Vibrant World of Cirque du Soleil’s “CRYSTAL”: Circus On and Above Ice
An incredible spectacle, Cirque du Soleil’s CRYSTAL is an artistic feat, blending circus arts with...
Perceptions of Each Other’s Cultures: Open Letter to an American Theater Critic
Most theater productions will never become available again, no matter how great the quality,...
Kennedy Center Dramaturgy Intensive 2021 Retrospective
In the face of many challenges in Summer 2021, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts...
Once Upon A Time In BIM: A Theatre Resuscitation In The Time Of COVID-19
Independence in Barbados is not without its many activities in celebration. We are accustomed to...
Performative States In Cuba: Coco Fusco In Conversation With Stephanie Bailey
In this conversation, Cuban-American interdisciplinary artist and writer Coco Fusco talks about...
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An Evening with Fats Waller: “Ain’t Misbehavin'” at TUTS
Before there was After Midnight, before there was Smokey Joe’s Cafe, and before there was Black...
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VR and Theater Finally Make a Climate Baby: “From Sea To Rising Sea” Interview with Creator-Director-Choreographer Mary John Frank
Technology and the theater are closer together than ever, and our hope for the planet may depend...
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Dangerous Desires in “Marie It’s Time”
Why is this boy-kills-girl play different from all other boy-kills-girl plays? For starters, it...
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Imagine/: Artificial Intelligence Comes to Theatrical Design
Lately, I have been seeing examples of Jason Jamerson’s theatrical design work on Instagram...
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Russian Theater Beyond Time and Place. On the 25th Anniversary of the STEPS Theatre
“Time means nothing. That is, it does, but not in the way we think,” says Joseph, the protagonist...
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When Playwrights Complicate Dramatic Form: Recent Developments in African American Plays of the 2010s
African American drama, theater and performance has a rich and complex history. Only recently,...
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More Morisseau: “Skeleton Crew” by Dominique Morisseau
Skeleton Crew is Dominique Morisseau’s best play so far. It’s the most streamlined work in her...
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The Return of Gringoire: An Exclusive Interview with Bruno Pelletier
Interview of the “original” Gringoire from Notre Dame de Paris the musical – Bruno...
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“The Drawer Boy” and Another Way of Telling History
The opening play of the Blyth Theatre Season, Michael Healey’s Canadian classic, The Drawer Boy,...
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Haunted History in Cottage Country: “Cottagers and Indians”
Cottagers and Indians by Drew Hayden Taylor A lazy afternoon on a cedar deck that could be...
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Learning From Scratch: Istanbul Theatre Through a Canadian-Armenian Lens. Interview with Art Babayants.
Dr. Art Babayants is a multilingual artist-scholar who lives and works in what is now called...
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“Kurios: A Cabinet of Curiosities” Helping You Dream with Your Eyes Wide Open!
I can prescribe the remedy if you need medicine to blow up your imagination! Get a ticket to...
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Mental Illness, Misogyny, and the Myth of the Male Genius in “The Butcher Boy”
This review contains spoilers. TW: suicide, homicide, mental illness The Butcher Boy, which opened...
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In Conversation with Regan Hicks: Part Two
This is part 2 of the bipartite interview. To read part 1, click here. Welcome back to the second...
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In Conversation with Regan Hicks: Part One
Regan Hicks is one of my dearest friends and closest collaborators. We’ve worked on a number of...
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Emerging Playwright Embarks on Gershwin Era Musical
American playwright and concert pianist, William Robert Martin, is an emerging artist whose star...
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“Don’t You Hate It When Assholes Are Talented?”: “macbitches” at Chain Theatre
I went to theatre school. Know this before reading on. I went to theatre school, trained as an...
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Honey, I’m Home! — Robert Icke’s “Oresteia”
If nothing else, you have to admire the chutzpah of Robert Icke’s Oresteia, which tries to...
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“The Cherry Orchard,” Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble
What might Anton Chekov, that Russian master of the nineteenth century, have to say about the...
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Leveling Effects: Matthew Spangler’s Adaptation of “The Kite Runner”
Khaled Hosseini’s 2003 novel The Kite Runner is a vividly descriptive and often gripping tale of...
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Sacrament of the Sea: Houseworld’s “Bottom of the Ocean”
Whispering the word BOTO into the speakeasy-style window of a door, I felt a sense of trepidation,...
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”Seven Women in Search of Mia” or ”Breast Cancer Trilogy” (A Postproduction Reflection)
In 2011, I published my first medical humanities book, Transacting Sites of the Liminal Bodily...
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The Musical “Notre Dame de Paris” Returns to the United States
At the turn of the century, in 1998, Luc Plamondon created one of the greatest musicals Notre Dame...
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“The Aliens Make Thanksgiving Dinner:” An Interview With Co-Creators James Clements, Derya Celikkol, and Maamoun Tebbo
“The Aliens Make Thanksgiving Dinner” is a new devised play, co-written, co-directed...
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“Heartlines”: An Engaging New Drama That Opens the World for Women Artists in Europe
Heartlines closes the spring season of 2022 in the Great Canadian Theatre Company in Ottawa. It is...
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Post-Factual Theater: “MJ” on Broadway
On the way to a play one day in early 2019, I climbed out of the subway at 8th Avenue and 44th St....
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Unmanly Griefs: Robert Icke’s “Hamlet”
The first ten minutes of Robert Icke’s 3 ¾-hour Hamlet had me worried. Icke is a British directing...
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“Penelope”: A Fresh Take on Homer’s Classic Epic Poem
The new musical Penelope by the York Theatre Company was a fresh and hilarious comedic take on...
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Comfort in the Unknown: SOCIETY’s “The Strangers Came Today”
How is theater like a support group? This question struck me upon entering The Strangers Came...
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The Awe-Inspiring and Vibrant World of Cirque du Soleil’s “CRYSTAL”: Circus On and Above Ice
An incredible spectacle, Cirque du Soleil’s CRYSTAL is an artistic feat, blending circus arts with...
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metaLAB’s futureSTAGE: Sentient AI and the Arts
Embodying a portfolio of projects, metaLAB (at) Harvard is a think tank spotlighting the networked...
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“Bronx Gothic” by Okwui Okpokwasili
On May 8, 2022, Nigerian-American artist Okwui Okpokwasili’s Bronx Gothic (2014) at...
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Pandemonium Magic: “The Hang” at HERE
Taylor Mac is one of those magi of pandemonium who knows how to breach the defenses of people like...
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Cut From Different Cloth: “Intimate Apparel” at Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater
I went to the new opera Intimate Apparel because the 2003 play it was made from is one of my...
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A New Translation of Molière’s “Dom Juan” for the 21st Century
A Preview of a new translation of Molière’s Dom Juan for the 21st century by Gideon Lester and...
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LMDA Launches New Access Initiatives
I began my tenure as Chair of the LMDA Conference during the early days of COVID. This was back...
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The Meaning of Theater: Slava Stepnov’s “Flawed Choir” at the Steps Theatre
“All the world’s a stage,” says a character in William Shakespeare’s “As You Like It.” “Life...
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Black Second-Act Problems: “Black No More” by The New Group
In my time as a critic I’ve noticed on numerous occasions that musicals rooted in political...
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Director Maria Mileaf and Actor Aline Salloum on Oren Safdie’s High School Crush Gone Sideways, “Gratitude”
Gratitude, by Oren Safdie, directed by Maria Mileaf, and starring Jalen Ford, Jake Bryan Guthrie,...
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The Beast is Back: Radiotheatre’s Live Audio Play “King Kong”
Since its original 1933 film debut, the story of King Kong has become a mainstay of America’s, and...
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Frenemies and Freedom: “Confederates,” Signature Theatre
Dominique Morisseau is aware that most of her fans see her as a predominantly naturalistic...
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Gilbert Gottfried and the Mechanics of Crafting One of the Most Memorable Voices of All Time
Though Gilbert Gottfried’s voice has alternatively been described as “shrill,” “annoying” and...
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Fresh “Ham” at the Public
Fat Ham arrives at the Public Theater for its first live production following the Zoom staging by...
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From the Moscow Stage to Monroe and De Niro: How the Method Defined 20th-Century Acting
When an actor is criticized for peculiarly excessive preparation for a role, or an inability to...
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“Sky of Darkness” Comes to NYC: A Chinese Reimagination of “Heart of Darkness” in Our Neocolonial World
Sky of Darkness is enjoying its US premiere June 2-12 at Theaterlab in Midtown Manhattan. The...