Brecht, Kabarett, and Pussy Riot: The Impact of AnomalousCo’s “(beyond) Doomsday Scrolling”
Entering the theatre at HERE Arts, there is already a sense of broken ground. My companion and I...
Read MorePosted by Rhiannon Ling | 22nd Feb 2023 | Devised Theatre, New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Entering the theatre at HERE Arts, there is already a sense of broken ground. My companion and I...
Read MorePosted by Lisa Monde | 17th Feb 2023 | Interview, Musical Theatre, New York, Producing, United States of America
Dedicated to the 35th anniversary of the Broadway musical “The Phantom of the Opera.” It is known...
Read MorePosted by S.E. Gontarski | 13th Feb 2023 | Adaptation, Directing, New York, Review, United States of America
Much of my approach to theatre, to performance, especially, consists in locating and assessing a...
Read MorePosted by Rhiannon Ling | 13th Feb 2023 | Devised Theatre, New York, Review, Theatre and Gender, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Only a week after the invasion of Ukraine, three creatives found themselves nestled around a...
Read MorePosted by Jingyi Zhang | 23rd Jan 2023 | Festivals, New York, Prototype 2023, Theatre and Gender, Theatre and Opera, United States of America
A double bill by Irish composer Emma O’Halloran and her uncle, librettist Mark O’Halloran,...
Read MorePosted by Jingyi Zhang | 21st Jan 2023 | Festivals, New York, Prototype 2023, Review, Theatre and Opera, Transmedia, United States of America
Undine is a three-act animated opera composed by Stefanie Janssen and Michaël Brijs. The pandemic...
Read MorePosted by Jingyi Zhang | 20th Jan 2023 | Festivals, New York, Prototype 2023, Review, Theatre and Opera, United States of America
In Our Daughter’s Eyes, composed by Pulitzer prize winning composer Du Yun and librettist Michael...
Read MorePosted by Jingyi Zhang | 17th Jan 2023 | Festivals, New York, Prototype 2023, Review, Theatre and Opera, United States of America
Gelsey Bell’s Morning//Mourning is a quirky, experimental opera that defies categorization. It is...
Read MorePosted by Clare Cioffero | 12th Jan 2023 | Adaptation, New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
On a cold November, New York Friday night, when temperatures approached freezing, the shivering audience waiting to experience Albert Camus’ The Fall at the Soho Playhouse checked in at the box office on the upper floor, then...
Read MorePosted by Clare Cioffero | 10th Jan 2023 | Design, New York, Puppetry, Review, United States of America
The show Lazarus 1972-2022 is difficult to pin down. How can what a thought looks like be...
Read MorePosted by Ademola Bello | 7th Jan 2023 | LGBTQ Theatre, New York, Review, Theatre and Decolonization, United States of America
The young playwright Jordan E. Cooper deserves kudos for writing the play Ain’t No Mo. He is...
Read MorePosted by Clare Cioffero | 3rd Jan 2023 | New York, Playwriting, Puppetry, South Korea, United States of America
The simplicity of the set was enriched with exquisite lighting design, by Oliver Wason, depicting the starry heavens above, exploding bombs, flocks of butterflies, even projections of characters.
Read MorePosted by Lisa Monde | 19th Dec 2022 | Adaptation, Musical Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America
The previews of &Juliet the musical, began October 28th 2022 at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 9th Dec 2022 | New York, Review, Theatre and Decolonization, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, as anyone reading this knows, is a cornerstone of...
Read MorePosted by Rhiannon Ling | 4th Dec 2022 | New York, News, Playwriting, Theatre and Gender, United States of America
Walking to the back of Sisters on Fulton, the excitement is palpable. A sizable group has gathered...
Read MorePosted by Morgan Skolnik | 18th Nov 2022 | Documentary Theatre, New York, Review, Theatre and Religion, United States of America
The Unbelieving is documentary theater (all the lines are taken from real interviews), but this...
Read MorePosted by Morgan Skolnik | 17th Nov 2022 | LGBTQ Theatre, Musical Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America
F*ck7thGrade is messy, it’s awkward, it’s unrelentingly earnest, and it’s utterly delightful....
Read MorePosted by Morgan Skolnik | 28th Oct 2022 | LGBTQ Theatre, Musical Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America
I was struggling to find my seat at New World Stages when two people a bit older than me wearing...
Read MorePosted by Lisa Monde | 26th Oct 2022 | Interview, Musical Theatre, New York, United States of America
This year is the 125th Anniversary of the famous gothic novel written by the Irish writer Bram...
Read MorePosted by Alexander Fatouros | 24th Oct 2022 | Musical Theatre, New York, Review, Theatre for Young Audiences, United States of America
An off-Broadway musical about the art of producing a musical and the love of show business “Sesame...
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