Àlex Rigola’s Lean, Mean Riff on “Hedda Gabler”
…but where the boundaries between the two are blurred, as in his reworking of Uncle Vanya entitled Vania (escenas de la vida) (2017). The wooden box has been his preferred…
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Cruelty, Guilt, And Redemption Intertwine In “The Mutt” At IATI Theater
…skipped like a child’s jump rope. But Zhuchka lives. Moldovan-born performer Alina Mihailevschi embodies her both as a pet and as an elemental force — a shadow given voice, weaving…
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Barcelona’s 2025 Grec Festival: “The Performing Arts as a Critical and Poetic Tool”
…Grec. After five days in Avignon where highlights included Israel Galván and Mohamed El Khatib’s Israel & Mohamed, Milo Rau’s La lettre, Tiago Rodrigues’ La distance, and Dida Nibagwire and…
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“Athens Of The North” at the Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh Festival Fringe
…a conversation between Alan Merton, a forty-four-year-old van driver from Gilmerton, a suburb in the south-east of Edinburgh, his colleague Davie and Brian, the foreman at the mattress warehouse where…
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“The Devil Wears Prada” and Other Musicals by Sir Elton John.
…a shame the show closed quickly, and potential viewers, believing the negative reviews, never actually saw it. The Devil Wears Prada Musical, West End, 2025/ (C) – Vanessa Williams as…
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Lucy Kirkwood’s “The Human Body” at the Donmar Warehouse: Twin Tales of Illicit Love and the Founding of the National Health Service
…Price documents the life of Nye Bevan, health minister in the socialist Labour government of 1945. At the former venue, The Human Body gets a fast-moving production by Michael Longhurst,…
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Sydney Theatre Company’s “Dracula”: A Virtuosic Performance, Sexy Staging, And A Queer Rewriting
…Theatre Company But, with the vampire’s refusal to die, old ideas reassert themselves: superstitions and old moralities cannot be left behind quite so easily. As Van Helsing says: It is…
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Mozart! The Gem of European Musical Theatre
…Kuipers as W.A.Mozart and the Ensemble/ Photo Credit by Deen Van Meer Michael Kunze’s poetics organically corresponds with the music by Sylvester Levay, who has also used the original compositions…
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Europe As a Beautiful Mess: An Interview with Heidi Wiley, Executive Director of ETC
…cases of political pressure are the recent events in Sofia, Bulgaria, when the audience members were physically prevented from entering the building of Ivan Vazov National Theatre by nationalistic groups,…
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SheNYC Takes the Stage: “Fort Huachuca” and “Bloodshot” at A.R.T./NY
…Fort Huachuca and Elinor T. Vanderburg’s Bloodshot mark the beginning of a new era of production for SheNYC, one I cannot wait to see grow. Both Sousa and Vanderburg’s scripts…
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The Kosovo Albania Theatre Showcase 2024 – A Review of “The Internationals”
…used to be known as Carla del Ponte trinkt in Pristina einen Vanilla Chai Latte* and is a series of vignettes. And Carla del Ponte, the former war crimes prosecutor,…
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“Penthesilea” After Von Kleist. Let’s Rock
…director Eline Arbo, together with composer Thijs Van Vuure, prove that this ancient story is indeed the stuff of drama. In Arbo’s radical reimagining, Penthesilea and Achilles become contemporary rockstars,…
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German Summer Festival Theatre (2): Domfestspiele Verden, “Die Zündholzfrau”
…intricacies of high society gossip and slander, with perfect manners and born to wear evening outfits and move about elegantly at large social events, in particular as their host. Vania…
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Beauty and Wisdom for Who: Disability in Simon McBurney’s “Die Zauberflöte”
…Gareth Fry includes about 100 speakers scattered throughout the house. This creates a playground for live Foley artist Ruth Sullivan who immerses the audience in the sounds of birds, brooks,…
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II 4.4 Short Performances Festival: When Muses are Not Silent
…development in their country). The festival also included a touring component: a performance of Kote Marjanishvili State Drama Theatre by Levan Tsuladze, who presented his master class for theatre professionals….
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A Theatre of Elsewhere
…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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“The Cherry Orchard” By Benedict Andrews: A Stark Mirror For A Collapsing Present
…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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Theatres In Tehran Rise From The Ruins Of The Iran-Israel War
…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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Shakespeare In The Park At The New Delacorte Theater: Love Is Gender Fluid
…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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