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There is a little red brochure going around the Edinburgh Fringe titled #Danish. It represents the seventh season of work presented by the Danish Arts Foundation in Edinburgh, and this year …
It was exactly ten years ago that Big in Belgium " a season of work from Flanders " was first presented at the Edinburgh Fringe. This panorama of eight new experimental pieces came on the ba…
The first edition of Ukraine Fringe " under the slogan Festival for the Brave "Â will be held in blended form, in Kyiv and online, from August 21st to September 3rd, 2023. Ukraine Fringe g…
Thanks to the early 20th century ethnographic research of Milman Parry and Albert Lord, the word 'guslar' may be more familiar " if at all in the English-speaking world " as a term indicatin…
You would not have been wrong to expect a feast in this show set at a giant dining table, fully dressed with crisp linen, wine glasses and silverware, a low hanging chandelier and subtly sig…
There are multiple ways to admire this production of a Greek classic, directed by Singaporean Ong Keng Sen for the National Theatre of Korea, specifically their opera section. The Korean Cha…
It is with great regret and sadness that we have learned of the untimely and sudden death of an outstanding Ukrainian theatre scholar and a wonderful, generous person and friend, Professor M…
Walter Prete is a playwright, author, actor, educator, dramaturg, and director. Born in 1991 in Ruffano, in the province of Lecce, Walter Prete approached the world of theatre as an actor at…
The recent production of Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa at London's National Theatre offers its English audiences what they like best: rural image of Ireland, nostalgic glow of the settin…
Ulviyya Heydarova: "I switch on my computer, open Word and put my heart and thoughts into action" If you have not heard anything about contemporary Azerbaijani dramaturgy, you should definit…
In Ways of Seeing (1972), John Berger stated that "the way we see things is affected by what we know or what we believe." In other words, our perception is influenced by beliefs and convicti…
By Kitty Brandon-James & Alma Prelec Vanya is alive; Vanya is alive and healthy; Vanya is alive and healthy and totally free. And we are safe because we keep silent. On 27 July a small g…
Trauma is the source of identity politics. In the case of African-Americans, the experience of brutal slavery, exploitative colonialism and violent racism are defining experiences in their h…
Egypt is represented by one play and a jury member at the second edition of Jordan's Al-Rahhalah Theatre " Nomadic Theatre Festival in Open Spaces. The second edition of the Al-Rahhalah Thea…
American television and film director Michael Engler is extraordinarily skilled at both comedies and dramas. Before earning Emmy nominations for Sex and the City (HBO), 30 Rock (NBC), and Do…
Fifteen years ago, The Anthropologists came to be in New York City, a group of devisers born of a deprivation of female-led story and artistic autonomy. One month ago, I was scrolling throug…
Directed by Fadi Skeiker with Wilma Hothouse Company favorites, the show's physical and visual landscape exposes the West's internalized cultural appropriation. In the audience of the Wilma …
Today's obvious was most likely yesterday's incredible. This is the conceit at the heart of Dr Semmelweis, a new play written by Stephen Brown with Mark Rylance, which has transferred to Lon…
Upon one's first step into the Players Theatre, one knows exactly what they're in for. The stage is dressed in metallic pink streamers and backlit with subtle eerie green; Kesha's "Cannibal"…
It has become a beautiful annual tradition: welcoming the musical Notre Dame de Paris at New York City's Lincoln Center in July. Daniel Lavoie, who originated the part of Frollo in the music…
For Part I of the interview, click here. Susanna: The play deals with the Asian American topic, with the renegade idea itself and then countryside music. There's the sense of rebellious spir…
A personal interview with the visionary and multi-talented Matthew C. Yee reveals exclusive insights into his musical Lucy and Charlie's Honeymoon, directed by Amanda Dehnert and currently p…
Climate-change activist Greta Thunberg is great at doing two things: irritating complacent adults and inspiring idealistic teens. In Sarah Middleton's debut comedy, Shewolves, which was firs…
James Graham's Dear England at the National Theatre: Joseph Fiennes plays a mesmerizing soccer manager in this sport-of-the-nation drama
The full version of the article James Graham's "Dear…
Kunqu opera has made a commercial comeback over the past two decades, but a recent adaptation of "Six Records of a Floating Life" misses the mark. A little over two decades ago, kunqu was te…
