Uncle Actor
…actorly vanity and insecurity up against the quirky vanities and insecurities of Chekhov’s characters and holds the result up to us as a fabulously silly mirror that’s also profoundly illuminating….
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 12th Apr 2025 | Adaptation, New York, Review
…actorly vanity and insecurity up against the quirky vanities and insecurities of Chekhov’s characters and holds the result up to us as a fabulously silly mirror that’s also profoundly illuminating….
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 29th Apr 2024 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
…is aghast. Both these actors are worth seeing whatever the ambivalences in Morgan’s script. Uncle Vanya, Lila Neugebauer, Vivan Beaumont Theater, USA, 2024, photo credits: Marc J. Franklin. Uncle Vanya,…
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 26th Dec 2025 | Review, Spain
…plays in the larger Montjuïc Sala Fabià Puigserver. Francisco Casavella’s cult 900-page novel, published in three volumes between 2002 and 2003, has been adapted by Iván Morales into a three-part…
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 14th Apr 2026 | Denmark, Review
…made her Danish debut at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen with a production of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanja. This is the first production of Uncla Vanja at the Royal Theatre since…
Read MorePosted by Lisa Monde | 22nd Jul 2025 | Interview, Musical Theatre, United States of America
Dedicated to the 145th anniversary of Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera “The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty.” The creative duo of librettist William S. Gilbert and composer…
Read MorePosted by Jessica Rizzo | 29th Jun 2023 | TF54, Theatre Forum
…little in a boiling cauldron until it vanished completely (Bolaño 887). Bolaño never announces what is of paramount importance. Rather, he requires of his reader something like the “evenly hovering…
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 5th Aug 2025 | Festivals, Review, Spain
…role. He hovers at the margins of the room in Act 1, as if hesitating to get too close physically. He isn’t however afraid to raise his to voice to…
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 19th Jan 2024 | Chile, Review, Santiago a Mil 2024
…Acuña — founder-director with the late Luis Biasotto of the innovative dance-theatre company, Grupo Krapp — , hovers close by. A camera is set up and a camera operator, the…
Read MorePosted by Verity Healey | 14th Jun 2023 | London, Review, United Kingdom
…violence hovering just under the surface as her voice-over describes a stain that has appeared on one of the walls and tells of the protagonist’s various attempts to get it…
Read MorePosted by S.E. Gontarski | 4th Dec 2025 | Directing, Essay, Transmedia
…actors and directors, among others, made discoveries and grew – to further understand themselves through texts by others, often out of time. Their Vanya, became, after four years’ work, Vanya…
Read MorePosted by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar | 23rd May 2026 | Interview, Macedonia, Theatre and Art
An Interview with Žaneta Vangeli, visual artist, professor, and set designer for the theatre performances of the late theatre director Oliver Micevski (Lolita, Hands Around, Norway.today, The Glass Menagerie, Vernissage,…
Read MorePosted by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar | 6th Sep 2023 | Interview, Italy, Management
…shows from our repertoire. I started reading the works of your writers and fell in love with your literature (Ivo Andric and Danilo Kis above all). Among my long-term projects,…
Read MorePosted by Andrej Čanji and Borisav Matić | 6th Sep 2023 | Festivals, Review, Serbia
…productions based on classics were conventional and outdated. Take, for example, the play Gospodjica (Miss), a dramatized version of the novel of the Nobel Prize winner Ivo Andrić. The story…
Read MorePosted by Lisa Monde | 22nd Feb 2024 | Interview, Musical Theatre, New York, United States of America
…to it: Tom Jones, Sinead O’Connor, Julie Covington, Il Divo, and others. But the passionate version by Madonna is truly special. In Andrew Lloyd Webber’s music score, many different music…
Read MorePosted by Alexander Nderitu | 9th Jan 2020 | Africa, Musical Theatre, News
…Côte d’Ivoire- Notre-Dame de Paris, Jesus Christ Superstar, Les Misérables Democratic Republic of Congo – – – Djibouti – Rock of Ages, Stomp, We Will Rock You: The Musical Egypt…
Read MorePosted by The Theatre Times | 15th Apr 1999
…UC. Directed by Álvaro Pizarro, featuring Devenir Colectivo. AntigoneNOW (2021), U.S.A. Antigones form a powerful chorus against a plague’s restrictions and impossibilities. UC Davis Department of Theater and Dance. Directed…
Read MorePosted by Mara Valderrama | 5th May 2014 | Interview, Playwriting, Spain
…llevando a cabo políticas que parecen buscar su destrucción. Si la dramaturgia siempre ha sido un oficio de resistencia, de persistencia, ahora lo es más. El dramaturgo (vivo) ha sido…
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 6th Feb 2026 | Directing, Italy, Review
…Lello Giulivo, Giuseppe Affinito and Vincenzo Pasquariello, Ivano Battiston, Lello Pirone, Eleonora Limongi voices and bodies of the city: Nikita Abagnale, Mariarosaria Bozzon, Francesca Cercola, Gabriella Cerino, Nicola Conforto, Mattia…
Read MorePosted by Molly Grogan Zolima CityMag | 17th Jul 2024 | Hong Kong, Review, Theatre and Politics
…glances during a photo shoot outside Hysan Place. But while she describes herself as an ordinary Hong Kong overachiever, her drive has admitted her to the most exclusive ivory towers…
Read MorePosted by Kirk Dodd | 5th Nov 2023 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Gender
…“Fondling,” she saith, “since I have hemmed thee here Within the circuit of this ivory pale, I’ll be a park, and thou shalt be my deer; Feed where thou wilt,…
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