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Disability, Kink, and Joy as Resistance in The Dan Daw Show

Posted by Morgan Skolnik | 22nd Jan 2025 | New York, Review, Theatre and Disability

The Dan Daw Show’s long list of potentially triggering content includes depictions of kink...

Disability Representation and the Rise and Fall of How to Dance in Ohio

Posted by Morgan Skolnik | 3rd Feb 2024 | New York, Review, Theatre and Disability, United States of America

On Monday How to Dance in Ohio, one of the most hyped shows of the 2023 Broadway fall season,...

On Stage And In A Wheelchair

Posted by Liu Qing | 5th Oct 2023 | China, Review, Theatre and Disability

Zhao Hongcheng has made hundreds of videos about the challenges of life as a disabled person. Now...

Beauty and Wisdom for Who: Disability in Simon McBurney’s “Die Zauberflöte”

Posted by Morgan Skolnik | 10th Jun 2023 | New York, Review, Theatre and Disability, Theatre and Opera, United States of America

The first notes of Simon McBurney’s production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) which...

“Najdziwniejszy Androgyn” (The Strangest Androgyne): Autism in Performance

Posted by Katarzyna Ojrzyńska | 11th Jun 2021 | Between.Pomiędzy 2021, Festivals, Poland, Review, Theatre and Disability

A short documentary opening the series entitled Spradyczni artyści (Sporadic Artists, dir....

Ten Ableist Tropes to Jettison in 2021

Posted by Melissa Hillman | 28th Jan 2021 | Essay, Theatre and Disability, United States of America

Disabled people need people who live in privileged bodies to do better. People with disabilities...

On Changing The Disability Inclusion Narrative: An Interview With Theater Breaking Through Barriers’ Nick Viselli

Posted by Madison Parrotta | 26th Jan 2021 | Interview, New York, Theatre and Disability, United States of America

Inclusion has quickly become the commanding narrative in the theater world, but when it comes to...

On Screen And On Stage, Disability Continues To Be Depicted In Outdated, Cliched Ways

Posted by Magda Romanska | 15th Nov 2020 | Essay, Los Angeles, Theatre and Disability, United States of America

The #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements have forced Hollywood and other artists and filmmakers...

Embodying Inclusion Through Vulnerability Of Dance And Multimedia Performance: Heidi Latsky Dance Company

Posted by Irina Yakubovskaya | 1st Sep 2020 | Interview, Theatre and Dance, Theatre and Disability, Transmedia

Heidi Latsky is a dancer and a choreographer who puts her vision of an inclusive integrated world...

Theatreperson Phillip Zarrilli on Adopting and Adapting Intercultural Techniques in his Teachings and Works

Posted by Renu Ramanath | 17th Feb 2020 | India, Interview, Transcultural Collaborations, United States of America

The actor-director was at the 12th International Theatre Festival of Kerala (ITFoK) in Thrissur...

“Midnight Movie” at The Royal Court

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 22nd Dec 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom

Eve Leigh is an experimental playwright who has tackled difficult issues for more than a decade....

“A Day in the Death of Joe Egg” at Trafalgar Studios

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 18th Oct 2019 | Review, Theatre and Disability, United Kingdom

Playwright Peter Nichols died aged 92 last month, just before the opening of this starry West End...

“Crippled,” The USCIS, And The Importance Of Disability As Culture

Posted by Cortland Nesley | 16th Apr 2019 | Canada, Review, Theatre and Disability

It seems simple enough. One is invited to perform somewhere, fills out the necessary paperwork,...

At the Barrow Group, “Perp” Is An Intimate, Challenging Look at Disability That Must Be Seen

Posted by Michael Appler | 29th Mar 2019 | New York, Review, Theatre and Disability, United States of America

We tend to think of disability as unlike other monuments of cultural identity, like race or...

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).