…accessories etc! It was like taking Van Gogh’s Sunflowers and deciding to make the petals purple! The original show of Phantom in Production and Design is an iconic piece of…
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…his latest, The Brightening Air, inspired by working on a version of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya in 2020, he has turned to WB Yeats for the title, and to Irish…
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…all of which ground-breaking in their unique ways: American Trajal Harrell offered a format of attending “work in progress”, Michel van der Aa’s work experiments with AI and opera in…
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…except for Vania Brendel replacing Rodigast as Dagmar. Böhling revived the production for the Packhaustheater with the same cast as the original 2023 production. Men and Women … Duett Surprise,…
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…on their own connections and the unspoken words that linger within them. The Earthquake (English), directed by Samragni Dasgupta, will be staged at Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore…
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…Hong Kong. And then, another one that stays with us: another brilliant student, Josiah Rodriguez, whose father was driving vans with essential supplies during the worst of the COVID pandemic,…
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…between the articulable and inarticulable explored in ghostly images, theatre’s thereness challenged. Meaning itself can be stated, performed, vanish, reappear – or not. For the past dozen or so years,…
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…off. The relationship between Dorian and Sybil Vane, the young actress he loves and brutally discards, lasts all of five minutes from her first entrance to her death. Basil Hallward…
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…set of modular pieces that rise from beneath the stage and vanish again just as swiftly. The finale — the double wedding of the twins with Olivia and Orsino —…
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…I couldn’t, because I had a film shoot. When he offered me to rehearse Astrov in his Vanya, I, unfortunately, to my shame, said that I did not feel this…
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…unpaid bills. The old world, with its rituals, comforts, and self-soothing illusions, is vanishing. Chekhov’s final play, written on the brink of the Russian Revolution, has never felt more prophetic….
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…Company’s Barbican Theatre, directed by Adrian Noble, with Alan Rickman as Höfgen. Klaus Maria Brandauer had played the role of Höfgen in the 1981 film directed by István Szabó. For…
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…Vandad Sadeghi for free from June 26 to 29. A free concert-theatre performance Restless by Sajad Afsharian and Ehsan Abdipour at the City Theatre Complex on June 28 and Rules…
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…de Soto, Josep Caballero García, and, to some extent, Michiel Vandevelde. What sets Leoni’s FLY apart, however, is the care (and financial investment) that his film on Nijinsky clearly required….
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…seem curated to allow for great vantage points from all different angles and spots. At certain points, I had such a good angle that my view felt cinematic. Being the…
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…Extended ruminations on whether it was necessary to make concessions to render art relevant for contemporary audiences (citing examples such as the decision by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam…
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…reality. Its heartbeat is the story of the uncanny friendship between Zina (Moldovan actress Alina Mihailevschi), an undocumented immigrant, and AI (Tim Craig), who appears on a large computer monitor….
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…complexity required for laughter. I do sympathize with Ryan, whom I’ve always enjoyed onstage (in Uncle Vanya, Saved, Crimes of the Heart, and many other shows). With no notice, she…
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…Hyung Seok Jeon Light design: Jennifer Tipton, Evan Anderson Additional lighting: David Sexton Costumes: Antonia Belt Assistant director and stage manager: Michaela Murphy Additional sound and video: Andrew Maillet Sound…
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…leading into the production. The work’s title, moreover, recalls Vincent van Gogh’s painting by that name, in which he portrays a family of peasants, eating a frugal meal of potatoes….
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