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Criticizing Patriarchy and the Status Quo in Iraq: A One-Woman Show

Posted by Amir Al-Azraki | 9th Jun 2019 | Iraq, Review, Theatre and Gender

On May 2nd, 2019, at The Institute of Fine Arts in Basra, Banin Abbas, an Iraqi actor, and...

Theatre Kraken’s “Lysistrata” at the Gladstone Theatre

Posted by Alvina Ruprecht | 3rd Jun 2019 | Canada

I naively asked the production team which translation they used for the production since I assumed...

Herta Müller’s “Niederungen” and The Dramaturgy of The Body

Posted by Jozefina Komporaly | 25th May 2019 | Dramaturgy, Review, Romania

The talented Romanian director Mihaela Panainte adapts Nobel laureate Herta Müller’s visceral...

Chekhov’s “Three Sisters” at the Almeida Theatre

Posted by Mert Dilek | 24th May 2019 | Adaptation, London, Review, Russian Theatre Abroad, United Kingdom

“I’m bored, bored, bored.” The refrain, occasionally spoken but frequently felt, is at the heart...

Russia Meets Iran: J’afari, Vișniec and Meyerhold, Partners of Ideology, Traversers of History

Posted by Farinaz Kavianifar | 23rd May 2019 | Directing, Iran, Review, Theatre and Politics

Read Farinaz Kavianifar’s interview with Rūhollah J’afari. On the evening of August 3, 2018,...

“Three Sisters” at The Almeida Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 14th May 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom

About a year ago, director Rebecca Frecknall electrified this venue with an award-winning revival...

Helen Edmundson’s “Small Island” At The National Theatre: Tribute To The Windrush Generation

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 9th May 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom

Novelist Andrea Levy’s 2004 masterpiece, Small Island, is a tribute to the Windrush Generation,...

Tribute to Author Celebrates the Life of The Imagination: “I Am Not Margaret Mahy”

Posted by David O'Donnell | 30th Apr 2019 | New Zealand, Review

I am not Margaret Mahy by Jane Waddell, based on Notes of a Bag Lady by Margaret Mahy, BATS...

New Play Examines Shakespeare’s Gender Politics: Sarah Delahunty’s “This Long Winter”

Posted by David O'Donnell | 29th Apr 2019 | New Zealand, Review, Theatre and Gender

Despite being dead for 400 years and having lived and worked on the far side of Planet Earth,...

José Sacristán Brings Miguel Delibes Back To The Spanish Stage

Posted by Maria Delgado | 25th Apr 2019 | Review, Spain

Miguel Delibes wrote his novella Señora de rojo sobre fondo gris (English title Woman In Red...

“Norma Jeane Baker Of Troy” At The Shed

Posted by Abigail Weil | 12th Apr 2019 | New York, Review, United States of America

If gender, as we’re often told, is a construct, then some women are skyscrapers. These are the...

“Grief Is The Thing With Feathers” at The Barbican Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 6th Apr 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom

Wow, what a collection of talent: this show stars Peaky Blinder Cillian Murphy, and Enda Walsh’s...

“A Man of Good Hope” Is No Tale Of Triumph Over Adversity, But It Is The Story Of Many

Posted by William Peterson | 1st Apr 2019 | Festivals, Review, South Africa

In a world where so many are escaping brutality, war, persecution, and loss of land, is it...

David Herskovits’ “Marjana And The Forty Thieves”

Posted by Abigail Weil | 31st Mar 2019 | Adaptation, New York, Review, United States of America

You know The Thousand And One Nights both better and worse than you realize. You may know it by a...

“Alys, Always” at The Bridge Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 26th Mar 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom

Okay, so this is the play that will be remembered for the character names that have unusual...

Interview With Director Johanny Bert

Posted by Nicole Birmann Bloom | 20th Mar 2019 | France, Interview, Theatre for Young Audiences

Recently, in February, Johanny Bert, Director/actor/puppeteer developed the play She No Princess,...

David Henry Hwang On Theatre, Trump, And Asian-American Identity

Posted by Mevlut Katik | 15th Mar 2019 | Interview, Playwriting, United States of America

American writers don’t get much bigger than David Henry Hwang. The award-winning playwright’s...

“An Octoroon” At Kinetic Theatre Company In Pittsburgh, PA

Posted by Wendy Arons | 10th Mar 2019 | Pittsburgh, Review, The Pittsburgh Tatler, United States of America

The Octoroon is a 19th-century melodrama by Irish playwright Dion Boucicault that tells the story...

Ravi Jain’s “Prince Hamlet”: A Meta-theatrical Reversal Of Disability And Gender

Posted by Abhimanyu Acharya and Sheetala Bhat | 2nd Mar 2019 | Canada, Review, Theatre and Disability

Why Not Theatre’s Prince Hamlet, adapted and directed by Ravi Jain, is a performative exploration of the relationship between aesthetics and disability. Prince Hamlet is a gender-bent, bilingual play which uses English and American Sign Language (ASL).