Dr. Art Babayants is a multilingual artist-scholar who lives and works in what is now called Canada. His training combines the Stanislavsky school of acting, Meyerhold's Biomechanics and Ind…
I can prescribe the remedy if you need medicine to blow up your imagination! Get a ticket to Kurios: Cabinet of Curiosities! Kurios, written and directed by Michel Laprise, is the 35th creat…
This review contains spoilers. TW: suicide, homicide, mental illness The Butcher Boy, which opened last week at the Irish Repertory Theater is deeply upsetting, but less so due to the gore i…
This is part 2 of the bipartite interview. To read part 1, click here. Welcome back to the second and final installment in my conversation with my dear friend and collaborator, Regan Hicks, …
Regan Hicks is one of my dearest friends and closest collaborators. We've worked on a number of projects together over the past few years, each time beneficial, each time an utter delight. T…
American playwright and concert pianist, William Robert Martin, is an emerging artist whose star is on the rise. His 1930s-style musical comedy about George Gershwin writing a musical comedy…
I went to theatre school. Know this before reading on. I went to theatre school, trained as an actor at a conservatory on the East Coast. I am well-versed in the racing of the heart while wa…
While Britain is experiencing a "summer of discontent", with inflation, strikes and other conflicts, it is odd that so few plays are as overtly political, and as overtly resonant as Sonali B…
If nothing else, you have to admire the chutzpah of Robert Icke's Oresteia, which tries to collapse the 8-hour, 3-play action of Aeschylus's monumental Oresteia"a founding work of Western dr…
What might Anton Chekov, that Russian master of the nineteenth century, have to say about the current climate crisis? A recent production of The Cherry Orchard by PETE (Portland Experimental…
The pioneering theatre company, founded and run by Afghan theatre maker and refugee, Saleh Sepas, is creating a practice that enriches the cultural landscape for all Malaysians. I met Saleh …
Khaled Hosseini's 2003 novel The Kite Runner is a vividly descriptive and often gripping tale of guilt and expiation, class conflict, and wrenching refugee experience, set mostly in Afghanis…
Whispering the word BOTO into the speakeasy-style window of a door, I felt a sense of trepidation, adrenaline rush, and giddiness. The latter came from the feeling that I was about to partic…
Just over a hundred years since its founding (by impresario and theatre director Max Reinhardt), the Salzburg Festival honours the nearly forgotten 20th-century south German writer Marieluis…
This is Part 2 of the bipartite report. To read Part 1, click here. Anais Nin au Miroir, written by Agnès Desarthe and directed by Élise Vigier,[1] was another production at the 202…
I arrived at the 2022 Avignon Theatre Festival seeking emotional rejuvenation after two years of COVID related isolation, working on screens, and deprived of live encounters in theatre; but …
Pristina Prison, a notorious building in the centre of the city, was built during the Yugoslav era in 1951. It housed thousands of political prisoners until 2016. Recently the prison was …
Yesterday evening I went to see Dog/Actor at the Etcetera Theatre in Camden. Written by Steven Berkoff, in his instantly recognizable snarling voice, these two short monologues are bri…
National Theatre, Belgrade, premiere 12th March 2022 The Years of Crows is the great comeback for writer and politician SiniÅ¡a KovaÄević. His last piece, The Great Drama, …
In 2011, I published my first medical humanities book, Transacting Sites of the Liminal Bodily Spaces, that continued my doctoral interdisciplinary research. Soon after that, I would start w…
Milosh Andonovski (1989) was born in Kumanovo, North Macedonia. He graduated Comparative literature in 2012 at the Faculty of Philology "Blazhe Koneski" at "Sts. Cyril and Methodius" Univers…
Turkish opera's great master, composer, and conductor Okan DemiriÅŸ's 'Murat IV' opera will meet Istanbul audience on July 23 The Antalya State Opera and Ballet (DOB) will perform "Murat I…
Review: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, directed by Jessica Arthur for the Sydney Theatre Company "You know when it's the autumn of 1827, and you're sitting in a church, having the wrong sort o…
Karnad spoke about his life as a writer and cultural administrator, his accidental foray into cinema and the state of Kannada literature. It is a late summer evening; the playwright is sitti…
At the turn of the century, in 1998, Luc Plamondon created one of the greatest musicals Notre Dame de Paris, the music written by Richard Cocciante. The musical, based on the eponymous novel…