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It’s Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” But Not As You Know It

Posted by Nobuko Tanaka | 16th May 2019 | Adaptation, Japan, News, Transcultural Collaborations

With praise for his Hamlet with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2016 still ringing in his ears —...

Passion Play: The Often Fraught History Of The Theatre And Christianity

Posted by Julian Meyrick and Elizabeth Schafer | 7th May 2019 | Essay, Theatre and Religion, United Kingdom

During Holy Week – the run-up to Easter – theatrical versions of religious narratives abound....

Absurdist Comedy “Every Good Boy Deserves Favour” Gets Its Japan Debut

Posted by Nobuko Tanaka | 4th May 2019 | Adaptation, Japan, News, Transcultural Collaborations

Tom Stoppard is one of the most influential figures in theater today and one of the most...

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,...

On Broadway, “Kiss Me, Kate” Is True To Fashion, For Better Or Worse

Posted by Michael Appler | 19th Mar 2019 | Musical Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America

Anyone who tells you that Cole Porter’s Kiss Me, Kate isn’t, or can’t be, a kick in the teeth to...

The Development Of Israeli Theater–A Brief Overview

Posted by Shimon Levy | 15th Mar 2019 | Essay, Israel

In comparison with West European theater, Hebrew theater is young: only a century separates the...

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).

The “King” Returns And Theaters Look To Russia For 2019 – Theatre in Japan

Posted by Nobuko Tanaka | 12th Feb 2019 | Japan, Musical Theatre, News, Transcultural Collaborations

Whether it’s a regular theatre that gets you going these days—or you’re skipping along more to...

“The Tempest” At The Pittsburgh Public Theater In Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Posted by Wendy Arons | 11th Feb 2019 | Adaptation, Pittsburgh, Review, The Pittsburgh Tatler, United States of America

A couple of decades ago my then-colleague Jan Hagens introduced me to a genre categorization that...

Shakespeare From Iran, And Other Radical Possibilities At The Kerala Theatre Festival

Posted by Navamy Sudhish | 31st Jan 2019 | Festivals, India, News

The festival will showcase a slice of cutting-edge contemporary theatre Water puppets celebrating...

“Crime And Punishment”: The Crime You’ll Be Glad You Were A Witness To

Posted by Nobuko Tanaka | 26th Jan 2019 | Adaptation, Japan, News

In a scoop for Tokyo, Theatre Cocoon in Shibuya Ward is set to mark the new year with the world...

The Play That Never Sleeps: “Macbeth” In China

Posted by Hannah Lund | 19th Jan 2019 | Adaptation, China, Immersive Theatre, Review

As we neared the elevator doors, a woman dressed in a beautiful 1930s-era gown directed us to keep...

The Spectator Between Productive Participation And Narcissism In Punchdrunk’s Immersive Theatre

Posted by Marilena Borriello | 17th Jan 2019 | Immersive Theatre, Interview, London, United Kingdom

We all probably agree that the theatre is by nature “immersive” and that–since the...

“My Kingdom For A…”–What?! Andrei Şerban’s “Richard III” At The Radnóti Theatre, Budapest

Posted by Natália Pikli | 15th Dec 2018 | Hungary, Review

Shakespeare’s history play revolves around a strange creature, the monster of power. Yet it poses...

Yukio Ninagawa, The Architect Of Cultural Crossroads

Posted by Corrie Tan | 20th Nov 2018 | Directing, Essay, Japan

Part of the Asian Theatremakers series I met the late Japanese director Yukio Ninagawa in 2013...

Off The Stage And Into Your Home

Posted by Vikram Phukan | 13th Nov 2018 | Applied Theatre, Festivals, India, Review

“The Stage in the Drawing-Room” is the title of a 19th-century instruction manual by Henry Dakin...

In “Midsummer” The Mobile Unit Delivers a Joyous Celebration of Life and Shakespeare

Posted by Michael Appler | 1st Nov 2018 | New York, Review, United States of America

Joe Papp would be proud had he lived to see what his Mobile Theater had become: a brimming, joyous sanctuary of inclusivity and plurality, of Shakespearean excellence armed with subtle and striking mindfulness, no longer a struggling caravan of the American theater’s earliest pioneers, but a rag-tag group of brilliant players all the same.