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The Italian American gangster " Al Capone (Alphonse Gabriel Capone), who reigned as a crime boss in 1920-1930s during the Prohibition Era in Chicago " even one hundred years later, his perso…
Before the war, in what now feels like another lifetime but in reality is just over a year ago, I was in Kyiv, premiering Dash's show Songs for Babyn Yar. One evening, our Ukrainian partners…
Located at the end of a long, narrow corridor, seating the audience near the stage and close to the actors, Trap Door Theatre fosters an intimate viewing experience. With a vintage and relax…
A double bill by Irish composer Emma O'Halloran and her uncle, librettist Mark O'Halloran, Trade/Mary Motorhead, presents two psychological portraits of "extraordinary ordinary people" in th…
Sonne, los jetzt!, Elfriede Jelinek's new theater piece, is imperative with an unknown addressee. Is it the Sun or humanity that needs to make a change? Obviously, this is a first of many rh…
Undine is a three-act animated opera composed by Stefanie Janssen and Michaël Brijs. The pandemic transformed the originally staged production into a digital format, which bought about ne…
A collaboration between metaLAB (at) Harvard and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, the Digital Access Research Project (DARP) developed out of metaLAB's FutureStage project,…
In Our Daughter's Eyes, composed by Pulitzer prize winning composer Du Yun and librettist Michael Joseph McQuilken, is a probing one-act monodrama, which interrogates what manhood and father…
When I thought about why I wanted to write this article, a simple, almost childlike thought came to mind: because I'm downright giddy that Toronto theatres have reopened. And what's most exc…
note to a friend, composed by Pulitzer prize-winning composer David Lang, is a chamber opera inspired by three texts by Japanese author Ryunosuke Akutagawa, the father of Japanese short stor…
Gelsey Bell's Morning//Mourning is a quirky, experimental opera that defies categorization. It is part narration, part singing, part electronic music, and part science fiction. Set in a post…
On Saturday 19 November 2022, I witnessed the performance Hands Up! by dancer and choreographer AgnietÄ— LisiÄkinaitÄ— whose performance was for the first time shown in a Dutch cont…
During a summer of uncertainty and anxiety for American theatres and artists alike, a cohort of emerging and established dramaturgs was offered a space to reflect, imagine, and share at the …
On a cold November, New York Friday night, when temperatures approached freezing, the shivering audience waiting to experience Albert Camus' The Fall at the Soho Playhouse checked in at the …
Review: D*ck Pics in the Garden of Eden, written and directed by Jeffrey Jay Fowler, The Last Great Hunt. We see this played out in the media: famous men, a dick pic unwisely texted, reputat…
The show Lazarus 1972-2022 is difficult to pin down. How can what a thought looks like be described? It's this sort of impediment that does not allow for easy categorization. The show is bei…
Introduction The ongoing unsettling shift of my identity from a "white" Iraqi back home (in Iraq) to a person of color in Canada, where I am surrounded by conversations about and personally …
Zahhak: The Legend of the Serpent King, will be performed January 12 " 15, 2023, at the Loeb Drama Center's Experimental Theater located in Cambridge, MA. Zahhak is presented by Boston…
The young playwright Jordan E. Cooper deserves kudos for writing the play Ain't No Mo. He is also one of the actors in the show where he played the role of a drag queen character called "Pea…
It began as a direct message conversation between two black creatives: Ghanniy Oyedele from Nigeria, and Todd Sullivan from the United States. We met through a Taipei Facebook Writing Group,…
It was a chance meeting at MoMA's dance series "Some sweet day" that brought Ingrid Nachstern and Cate McNider together. The artistic collaborators first struck creative sparks off each othe…
Molière (real name Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) was born 400 years ago in Paris, France. He remains the most popular French playwright, a satire supremo, and is often compared to England's Willi…
At this "Desiré" festival in Subotica, on the stage of the DezsÅ‘ Kosztolányi Theatre, at the very artistic and aesthetic peak of the festival, the performance Nero by the Hungarian t…
The simplicity of the set was enriched with exquisite lighting design, by Oliver Wason, depicting the starry heavens above, exploding bombs, flocks of butterflies, even projections of charac…
If you don't know about loss, then you will by the end of this show. Sara (Ilire Vinca) is married to Din (Bujar Ahmeti). They have a daughter, Lola (Kosovare Krasniqi), who looks a similar …
