Barbarians in Midtown
…whose plan to marry his beloved Sarah is thwarted when a racist gang vandalizes his car, he is denied justice, and Sarah is killed trying to help. Nichelle Lewis (Sarah)…
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(LA)HORDE’s Flash Mob Revolution
…full earnestness how the show is “a hymn to liberation.” On the website of Dance Reflections, a generous funding and support program patronized by the French luxury jewelry brand Van…
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“The Iliad” at Betty Nansen Theatre, Copenhagen
…of this production is between Arbo and composer Thijs van Vuure which results in enabling the acting ensemble to also perform as singers/musicians in a seamless and fully integrated way…
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“Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists” at the Tampere Theatre Festival: Do We Defend Democracy by Breaking Its Rules?
…much as in Uncle Vanya or Michael Cimino’s 1978 film The Deer Hunter. The easy mood, however, is about to be blown apart: for the audience soon discover that this…
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“No Power for the Electric Chair ” – Crime of Theatrical Absurd
…good and evil. They are both cries and whispers. Is this divine punishment or mortal justice? No Power for the Electric Chair directed by Dejan Projkovski, foto: Ivan Kamchev …
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Dancing With Bob: Visual Arts And Dance In Dialogue With Each Other
…dancers navigate convincingly the contrasting movement qualities of Brown and Cunningham. The production is also supported by a consortium of institutions, among them Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels…
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“Leili And Majnun:” An Ancient Love Story For Modern Times
…is a truly immigrant production, one that fuses multiple cultures seamlessly”—and nowhere is this more evident than in the extraordinary music by composer Sirvan Manoobi. As he reflects in the…
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Opheliation
…with the Roshan Institute. Featuring Azadeh Ganjeh, Nassim Soleimanpour, Keyvan Sarreshteh, and moderator Marjan Moosavi, this conversation exploreS Iranian theatre artists’ ethical vision and creative practice in response to the…
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LegalAlien’s “The Flowers of Srebrenica”: Theatre as Healing
…important locations, which are staged at the same time. Designer Isabella Van Braeckel, in Cheng Keng’s dark light and Jovana Backovič’s bristling sound, envelops the whole play within the skeletal…
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“Sex Magick”: This Gender-Bending, Time-Traveling Play Invites You to Detangle Love and Sex
Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl and follows her to India. Boy has a transformative tantric sexual experience and realizes he might like boys too? Boy, girl…
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Trauma In Translation: Stratford’s Milestone Salesman In China
…China. It returns us to Miller’s revered reputation as moral Cold War hero, only to cut it off at the knees. On September 13, 2007 Vanity Fair published a remarkable…
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“The Outrun”
…she feels like ‘a vanishing lady,’ her words, Woman decides to join a therapy group, in a scene where she must finally confront her demons. In the final scenes, having…
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“Welcome to Asbestos Hall.” Review. Part I. Holland Festival 2025.
…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 novel ways and Carolina Bianchi already…
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In the City of al-Sayyab, Theatre Still Speaks
…political uncertainty, and conservative religious frameworks. Theatre has not vanished under these conditions. It has learned to speak carefully, to occupy smaller spaces, and to persist through continuity rather than…
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“Welcome to Asbestos Hall.” Review. Part II. Holland Festival 2025.
…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 novel…
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Prison Shakespeare at Milan’s Young Offenders Institute
…entire group, while others are carried out in small groups. Photo Credit: Vanessa Costa LARGE GROUP ACTIVITIES In the opening sessions, Cristina Cavecchi and I gave all attendees an introduction…
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Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 Overview
…writer-performer Barton Williams (Huynh van Cuong) and Hebridean composer Andy Yearley (Nguyen Tang). The authors here have been united by fate through their shared background as survivors of the post-Vietnam…
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Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette
In this groundbreaking take on William Shakespeare’s bittersweet tragedy, Hector Berlioz combines the playwright’s influence with all the musical drama of Ludwig van Beethoven’s symphonies….
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Sadness And Mourning Dominate Theater Bremen’s “Hamlet”
…contemporary tables. With the help of fog and very white LED lamps, lightning designer Marc van Denesse created further atmospheric variations of gloom, in addition to the (lack of) colors…
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“Strength, Don’t Let Yourself Be Anyone’s” – BITEF, Belgrade, Serbia
…of values of both and the comprehensive social bottom – which throughout the time only changes its forms. The illusions of rich and happy drawing-room homes reveal vanity and pathology….
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