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The interdisciplinary theatre, dance, and performance art festival Kyoto Experiment (KEX) wowed me with the thoughtfulness of its curatorial vision. The three co-artistic directors"Yoko Kawa…
Milad Azarm in conversation with Mohammadreza Khaki Peter J. Chelkowski, an esteemed scholar and professor emeritus at New York University, devoted his life to enriching the understanding of…
Six Against Turkey, at The Kosovo Albania Showcase, is a new satire from playwright Jeton Neziraj and director and wife collaborator Blerta Neziraj. It explores the main actors in Turkey'…
How do you explain the concept of childbirth to an alien intelligence, such as that of fungi? Are our family " and others " actually part of a colony that extends beyond us? Communicating wi…
Based on a well-loved Turkish novel by Latife Tekin, Dear Shameless Death " Dirmit by Tiyatro Hemhâl is a one-woman play adapted to the stage by Nezaket Erden and Hakan Emre Ãœnal. It i…
Though many people rushed to them post election, the musical of our political moment is not "Suffs", nor is it "Ragtime". It is, for better or worse, New York Theatre Workshop's "We Live in …
Staged readings are a liminal period for new plays in development. For rough ideas, they can be a lab where writings go through trial and error; for mature works, they can be a springboard t…
In Flower Sajza, directed by Endri Çela at the National Experimental Theater of Tirana, two women stand on the stage facing the main body of the audience. They are behind a fence of barb…
Heartefact Fund is a young company based in Serbia. Normally, the company performs in an apartment in Belgrade, ensuring audiences feel an intimacy and closeness to the productions and actor…
The Director, a positive character The Critic  is a sitter on fences and neither a positive nor negative character The Writer, a positive character The Critic's Inner Voice, a nega…
 Dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the first original production of the musical Starlight Express The 40th anniversary of the West End production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Starl…
Àlex Rigola first staged David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross at Barcelona's Teatre Lliure twenty-one years ago. It was an epic, fast-moving staging realised in a gyrating fishbowl set, cha…
Peruvian director Chela De Ferrari of Lima's Teatro La Plaza, reconfigured Hamlet " seen at this year's Edinburgh International Festival "Â through the eyes of actors with Down's Syndrome.…
Dr. Samir Talib is an Iraqi scholar specializing in Shakespeare and Renaissance studies. He earned his M.A. in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature from Baghdad University in 2005, followe…
Created by On the Rocks Theatre Co. (the two person co-writer and designer team Christopher Ford and Dakota Rose) The Beastiary is a hypnotic feast for the senses, engorging its audiences in…
Emily Bronte doesn't have an acronym but Franz Kafka does and Kafkaesque! Directed by Ashley Brooke Monroe and now running at Theatre 154 has 90 jam packed minutes proving why. James Harvey'…
Fringe venues perform a vital role on the ecology of London theatre. While many shows at these small venues are underfunded, and some are frankly rough as well as ready, you can occasionally…
It is the 24th of September 2024 in Ä°stanbul, and I'm finding my way through the curvy streets of Galata to reach Asmalı Sahne, an alternative-independent blackbox space that was estab…
When the premiere performance of the play 1981, directed by Tomi JanežiÄ, began at the Novi Sad Theatre/Újvidéki SzÃnház, time stood still. A milky way of new theatrical move…
One day, Laura Jones was late to pick up her three-year-old daughter, Amy. Not a happy moment for the little girl, Jones's tardiness would have a major impact on her career as a director. Fo…
The Christine Jorgensen Show isn't perfect, but it's just so delightfully charming it's hard to notice. Jesse James Keitel as the world's first transgender celebrity Christine Jorgensen and …
Tattooer is a playful yet critical adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki's (1886-1965) debut short story of 1910 by the same name. Adapted by Takuya Kaneshima and directed by Hogara Kawai in a…
Back in 2019, I decided to write a book about the Leeds Playhouse. "Why?", my friends asked me; "Because no one else has done so", was often my reply. The Playhouse was about to celebrate it…
Inside the Public Theater it's 2019 and Australia is on fire. Outside the theater it's 2024 and North Carolina is under water. It is with this context that Australian theater artist and game…
The city of Milan hosts two annual Fringe events, the first in June, and the second, in late September and early October. I caught the latter, Fringe Milanooff, situated in forty different v…
