I went to the new opera Intimate Apparel because the 2003 play it was made from is one of my favorites by Lynn Nottage. Cards on the table, I'm no opera fan in general but rather one of thos…
For most of the last two years, Bengaluru-based actor and playwright Spatica Ramanujam was feeling restricted due to the inability to mount a new play. This feeling, of course, was near-univ…
Review: Anything & Everything, Platform Arts, infinity ensemble for Rising. Anything & Everything reminds me of a rite of passage we have all sailed through, in one way or another. T…
SHADOW BOXING. Director/Choreographer: Mdu Kweyama. Cast: Daniel Newton. Masambe Theatre at the Baxter. A lustrous performance from Daniel Newton does ample justice to the nuanced text of Sh…
A contemporary opera has conquered one of the oldest and prettiest theaters in Spain. It is titled Borderland, maldita cabeza (Borderland, damned head) by Marta Eguilior, the librettist, sta…
A Preview of a new translation of Molière's Dom Juan for the 21st century by Gideon Lester and Sylvaine Guyot, as interviewed by Philippa Wehle. 2022 is celebrating the 400th birthday of th…
I began my tenure as Chair of the LMDA Conference during the early days of COVID. This was back when we thought we would have a vaccine in six months. That did not happen. As more live perfo…
We'll Meet Again Richard Loring's nostalgic musical tribute to World War II. Director/Set design: Barry Altwig. Lighting: Barry Strick. Sound: Trevor Lind. Music Direction/Choreography: Ters…
With nine Broadway musicals currently playing on Australian stages " and a further three set to open or reopen in coming months " audiences could be forgiven for thinking "what pandemi…
Theatre is slowly recovering from the effects of the pandemic, and many shows which were canceled because of the first lockdown are now finally getting a staging. The latest is Satinder Choh…
There is always a cultural gap between scholars and artists, each group being suspicious of the other. Patrice Pavis (1947, France) is an internationally renowned theater scholar. He was a P…
Theatre veteran PC Ramakrishna turns author with Find Your Voice, a guide on how to navigate a career as a voice professional You do not need to see PC Ramakrisha to recognise him. You ju…
Production-oriented workshops culminate in ticketed Telugu plays in Hyderabad. A manager by day and an actor by evening … Surabhi Santhosh's transformation is effortless. The 36-year-old f…
In the past, most plays by black-British writers have been about the legacy of the Windrush generation, or occasionally about migrants from west Africa, and their main theme has been exposin…
"All the world's a stage," says a character in William Shakespeare's "As You Like It." "Life is theater," as we say today. "I want to see meaning in theater," says young actress Zulla, one o…
Attired in a crisp white dhoti with a red zari border, bleached white shirt and angavastram, one could mistake Krishna, a "Haridasu," for a wandering pilgrim. He ambles along the silent city…
In my time as a critic I've noticed on numerous occasions that musicals rooted in political satire always have second-act problems. They come out of the gate identifying a specific breed of …
Konrad Hello, I'm Konrad. I'm here to share an account of the production of Mark Ravenhill's The Haunting of Susan A. I saw it on the 11th of June 2022 at The King's Head Theatre " perhaps b…
Gratitude, by Oren Safdie, directed by Maria Mileaf, and starring Jalen Ford, Jake Bryan Guthrie, Erik Larsson, and Aline Salloum, runs through June 30th at UrbanStages, 259 W 30th St, New Y…
Since its original 1933 film debut, the story of King Kong has become a mainstay of America's, and New York City's, popular culture, with the great ape's skyscraper showdown as much a civic …
Dominique Morisseau is aware that most of her fans see her as a predominantly naturalistic playwright with a sharp comic tongue and a sharper social conscience. She says so in an intro note …
Though Gilbert Gottfried's voice has alternatively been described as "shrill," "annoying" and "grating," you can't say it isn't memorable. Gottfried, who died on April 12, 2022, didn't natur…
This is Part II of the essay. To read Part I, click here. 8. (ON A-HUMANISM, AGAIN) A-humanism is not just a theoretical axiom but first and foremost an experience. Who speaks? Who writes? W…
(A Lecture-Essay Hesitantly Affirming the Idea that Every Lecture is Also a Performance)[1]With the exception of the introduction and the preamble, this text restates my farewell lecture at …
Fat Ham arrives at the Public Theater for its first live production following the Zoom staging by Philadelphia's Wilma Theater that earned it the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play's in…