“Eréndira”: Show Business As Usual
Yuri Kordonsky’s Eréndira at the German State Theatre in Timișoara is a visually gorgeous,...
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Miss Julie: Amy Ng Brings A “Problem Play” To Hong Kong
Amy Ng has a problem. The Hong Kong-raised, London-based playwright is holed up in a Causeway Bay...
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Rising Has Yet To Establish Its Voice – But This Year’s Festival Gave Us Significant And Thrilling Work By First Nations Artists
Rising has just completed its second run across Melbourne. The newest addition to the city’s...
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“Rare Earth Mettle,” Royal Court
Why are we indifferent to anti-Semitism? In the past few weeks the Royal Court, a proud citadel of...
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Re-Imagined Play Stirs Memories of “White Mischief” in Colonial Africa
Miss Julie’s Happy Valley is the most recent work by playwright Michael Omoke. The new play...
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About “The Elephant in the Room”
Online performance, streamed instead of attended, has given theatre companies an immense amount of...
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Ghana’s Politics Has Strong Ties with Performing Arts: This is How it Started
Towards the end of the Kwame Nkrumah era in 1966, a number of highlife artists wrote songs...
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Dressing Room with a Bathrobe and a Gas Mask. “Trump and the Field of Maize” at the Polski Theatre, Bydgoszcz
Like two other plays that premiered this year, Agata Siniarska’s You Are Safe, and The Last One...
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“VAST” Uses Physical Theatre to Drive Home the Point that Man Longs for Nature
A young boy from Nepal snatched away from his home in the Himalayas, now lives in a big slum in...
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“The Secret River” at The National Theatre
The revival of Sydney Theatre Company’s production of The Secret River, performed to great acclaim...
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Scenes of Returning: The First National Veterans Theatre Festival
The First National Veterans Theatre Festival, a partnership between the Feast of Crispian (FoC)...
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Dana Michel: “Cutlass Spring”
“You have to sit on the side of the stage. You’ll see that when you enter you have the option of...
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“Cosmic Latte” – Sonya Lindfors
In Cosmic Latte, Sonya Lindfors projects the audience into a Black future, while underscoring just...
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“Salt” at The Royal Court
Most of the facts about the Atlantic slave trade are well known; what is less understood is how...
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Danai Gurira’s “The Convert” at The Young Vic: Religion and Colonialism
Wow! First, the Black Panther team took cinema by storm; now, they have conquered theatre as well....
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Patricia Cornelius’ “Big Heart” Exposes Hypocrisy In Tale Of Multicultural Adoption
Playwright Patricia Cornelius is known for populating the stage with complex, working-class,...
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Can an English Artist Use Classical Nigerian Art as He Likes?
Reaction to Damien Hirst’s use/misuse of Ife art image. The insensitivity of many Westerners in...
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