Thursday, November 14, 2019
Thursday, October 24, 2019
In Paris, the mythological Greek character Electra can once again be found in a theater, while the heroine of a quirky new play is inspired by “Rocky III.”
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Kate Mitchell’s adaptation of the 1928 novel is consistently one step behind Virginia Woolf’s mercurial prose.
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Thursday, August 22, 2019
There is a cross-dressing show for everyone in the city, from traditional cabarets to RuPaul-inspired productions.
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Despite a history stretching to 1934, it feels like a David to the art exhibition’s Goliath. But its program is all the better for that.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:24AMThe Northern-Irish choreographer’s raw and powerful work examines gender, identity and religion, but it all happens by accident, she says.
Oona Doherty is finding out about the law of unin…
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An underwhelming official lineup led many festivalgoers to branch out into the less well-known complimentary program.
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Monday, June 17, 2019
The Parisian theatre company is on a rare visit to the UK with Ivo van Hove’s The Damned. What are the secrets of the world’s oldest active troupe?
Companies like nothing more than to re…
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The Printemps des Comédiens festival features productions uniquely crafted for, and occasionally by, their performers.
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Tales of women losing their grip on reality don’t exist in a void. They fit into broader cultural narratives.
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Two productions in Paris with their roots in the Greek playwright’s works explore the nature of human brutality. But without any CGI effects.
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Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Liam Scarlett’s raunchy staging of the novel for Queensland Ballet is partly a response to its distance from London, he says
It’s not often you see sex on top of a coffin on stage, but t…
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The actor turned playwright is taking his work to the UK for the first time. He talks about his Shakespeare in Love-style comedy riffing on Cyrano de Bergerac
Alexis Michalik has much in com…
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The annual Reims Scènes d’Europe festival showcases contemporary creation from around Europe. This year, it is focused on emerging artists from Spain.
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A new theatrical work by Christophe Honoré and an adaptation of a novel by Didier Eribon see prominent French gay artists reclaim their origins with striking honesty.
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The French writer-director talks about his highly personal new show, a ‘dance of the dead’ that pays tribute to artistic heroes including Jacques DemyDirector Christophe Honoré still lo…
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Our three European theater critics pick their favorite productions of the year — plus a turkey for the festive season.
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The Canadian stage director has seen some of his productions derailed by accusations of cultural insensitivity. In a new show in Paris, he can’t resist pointing to his own suffering.
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The “Japonismes 2018” season in Paris offers an intriguing, if occasionally puzzling, window onto Japan’s rich theater scene.
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La Scala Paris opened with a production in which the playwright Yasmina Reza also acts. But a theater focused on new writing in French from abroad faces an uncertain future.
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Staatsoper Unter den Linden, BerlinAlexei Ratmansky’s reconstruction of Marius Petipa’s problematic ballet raises an uncomfortable questionA quiet revolution has been under way in the ba…
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Monday, October 8, 2018
He has put an Isis fighter’s mother in the Ghent Altarpiece and restaged a murder. Now the Swiss director plans to get radicalWhen Milo Rau first saw the Ghent Altarpiece, one detail leapt…
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Thomas Ostermeier and Krystian Lupa present works at the city’s major playhouses at the beginning of a new theater season.
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Prague’s Letni Letna shows that circus, once dismissed as lowbrow entertainment, can be as potent as any performance genre.
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Many visitors to Paris take in a cabaret. But it gives them a strange view of the city, women and what theater is, our critic says.
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Despite some eye-catching dramatics, the paucity of female directors and protagonists at the most important event in the French theater calendar sticks out.
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Phia Ménard’s work perplexes show programmers and audiences alike. Her latest production will have its premiere at the prestigious Avignon theater festival in France.
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