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Iraqi theatre did not remain in Iraq. Over the past several decades, Iraqi playwrights, actors, directors, and artists have carried their theatre with them to new homes, including Canada. Wr…
Is there a crisis in British new writing? The comparative paucity of new work in mainstream theatre is bad news for some UK playwrights, but good news for those whose back catalogues are gra…
Dedicated to the 45th anniversary of the world premiere of the musical “Cats” The concept of the “mega-musical” is associated with the name of Andrew Lloyd Webber—the world’s …
(Read the first part of the interview here.) Chen: In your plays, or the ways you answer certain questions, I feel that you’re almost idiosyncratic about time. You’re always noting ho…
(Read the second part of the interview here.) Outside the bright, modern meeting room on the 10th floor of the Taipei Performing Arts Center, Koh Choon Eiow (高俊耀) was sunk in an oddly-…
That day, I aimed to view a production of The Tempest through a difficult flood. Prepared to pique an interest in the larger "theater is life" argument, I got my notebook ready. The hour…
As a dance artist, you are, at a young age, bestowed with the supposed gift to make people feel. You are told that this is a matter of profound and sacred importance to the state of the worl…
Jonathan Spector’s new play Birthright—just opened at MCC Theater in a sharp, superbly acted production directed by Teddy Bergman—is way more absorbing than you might expect from an in…
Once again, the forsythias are in bloom, and that means new openings are arriving way too fast for me to write full reviews on everything I see. Here, then, are some shorter takes, euphoric,…
We were wrapping rehearsal for the reading of my play Seeing Maya, a Tel Aviv love story, at the Atlas Intersections Festival in DC, when our lead actor, Lisa Hodsoll, asked a question about…
In nearly all productions of Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera I had seen up to this one, I was struck by a clash between the expectations that casting and other directorial choices had develo…
Cheng-Chun Lee was an underperforming student in his high school composition classes. It was strenuous for him to express his ideas on pages while following the structure of introducing a to…
For the second time in two years, a flashy, big-budget Romeo and Juliet has opened in New York that’s so bent on pleasing one particular target audience with shallowly conceived staging gi…
I’m trying to sell my theatre show to my neighbour, a retired farmer. He’s out walking his small dog. ‘What’s it about?’ he says, with a nervous grin. ‘Climate change’, I reply…
Sinfonia is a play in which older people of the local community take to the stage to share fragments of their lives. We may not often stop to imagine what growing old will feel like. Will we…
For the last full production of his first season as artistic director of Packhaustheater in Bremen, Dirk Böhling had written and directed a revue-style, 90-minute, fast-paced accumulation o…
STONE DESIGN Architects – Authors of the project No Man’s Land (2015/2016). Connected by a shared commitment to modern, urban, and sophisticated architecture, in 1999 four fellow student…
Seats have long been sold out for this production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, which brings iconic actor Kenneth Branagh back to the RSC (Royal Shakespeare Company) after a thirty-year hi…
This year’s theatre Biennale (7 to 21 June), with Willem Dafoe at the helm, has the intriguing title, Alter Native. In fact, in the program, the director and his advisory team have include…
This year’s theatre Biennale (7 to 21 June), with Willem Dafoe at the helm, has the intriguing title, Alter Native. In fact, in the program, the director and his advisory team have include…
Anissa Naji is a Moroccan-German multilingual actor, comedian, singer, writer, and teaching artist based in New York City. She is fluent in English, Spanish, Arabic (Maghreb & Levant), F…
An interview with Mrs. Gabriela Abrasowicz (Slavist, translator, and theatre scholar, Poland). Gabriela Abrasowicz is a Polish Slavist, translator, and theatre scholar. She graduated from th…
Klaus Mann’s novel Mephisto, published in 1936, deals with the opportunistic rise of its main character, Hendrik Höfgen to become one of the leading actors, directors and theatre managers…
This year’s theatre Biennale (7 to 21 June), with Willem Dafoe at the helm, has the intriguing title, Alter Native. In fact, in the program, the director and his advisory team have include…
4/5 Stars Coming from a glimpse of a barren thought of the sense of being presented with the concrete knowledge and perspectives of what sex education is for a kid growing up into becoming a…
