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Egyptian actor and director Mohamed Sobhy is celebrating the success of his latest theatrical play Nogoum El-Dohr, which is ending its run soon. Nogoum El-Dohr attracted high attendance duri…
​​When an actor is criticized for peculiarly excessive preparation for a role, or an inability to break character off-camera, an ill-defined notion of "Method" acting (note the…
Sky of Darkness is enjoying its US premiere June 2-12 at Theaterlab in Midtown Manhattan. The play, written by me, is directed by Rakesh Palisetty, courtesy of Pan Palisetty Production. Sky …
Walking out of the spiffy new production of Richard Greenberg's Take Me Out, my canny friend Tom, who was seeing the play for the first time, offered this quick take: "really interesting, bu…
The Legend of The Waitress & The Robber, a new musical theater piece by Renee Philippi, a Concrete Temple Theatre, Playfactory Mabangzen, and Yellowbomb collaboration, in partnership wit…
Review: Cathedral, directed by Shannon Rush for the State Theatre Company of South Australia Cathedral could not be more South Australian. This complex and challenging one-hander is the crea…
Why do we still remember theater that became history many decades ago? How do we remember plays that disappeared without a trace, physically gone, erased from memory? Wasn't Alexei Granovsky…
Celebrating Arab culture, the Liverpool Arab Arts Festival (LAAF) is gearing up for its upcoming edition to take place between 7 and 17 July across a variety of Liverpool's venues. Founded i…
Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive is, famously, the play that blew the lid off the subject of pedophilia in the theater. At its premiere in 1997 it was startlingly fresh and shocking"not …
Autistic adults in the United States are unemployed at estimated rates of more than 80%. Those who find stable work are just as likely to be underemployed. According to the Ruderman White Pa…
Review: Son of Byblos, directed by Anna Jahjah for Brave New World Theatre Company The downstairs theatre at Belvoir might be small but the energy conjured from Son of Byblos is mighty. Writ…
In 1999, Viviane De Muynck and Jan Lauwers set to work with the last chapter of James Joyce's Ulysses for the first time. Joyce's grandson, Stephen J. Joyce, explicitly forbade them th…
Of all of the performances and plays I have seen, this one stands out uniquely for several reasons. It is a collectively devised piece by three women of color who choose not only to create i…
Punchdrunk theatre, the eponymous progenitors of "immersive theatre," have been wowing their audiences worldwide since their early modest beginnings in Devon in the year 2000. Due to the nat…
Over the years, our contributors have been addressing the topic of decolonization in theatre and performance from all four corners of the world. This interactive map aims to give our readers…
It is the second time that Los números imaginarios (The imaginary numbers), a Spanish company of collaborative and immersive theater, call for artistic residencies. Six projects have been…
The Legend of The Waitress & The Robber is a collaboration between the Korean theatre companies Playfactory Mabangzen and Yellow Bomb and the New York City-based Concrete Temple Theater.…
Ivo van Hove's production of Age of Rage is sourced from six plays by Euripides and one by Aeschylus, chronicling the cycle of violence and revenge befallen on the house of Atreus " starting…
Andriy Bondarenko is the dramaturg of the Puppet Theater in Lviv, Ukraine, where he lives, but he is also a co-founder of the Kyiv Theater of Playwrights, and the author of the dramatic poem…
Review: Stay Woke, by Aran Thangaratnam, directed by Bridget Balodis. The lingering smell of incense and the hurried crunching of murukku and thattu vadai greets the audience as we settle in…
What do you do when you are blown away by a show, and yet you know that there is something inherently troubling in its premise? Or how about, what do you do when you go to see a play about a…
This story is part of a collaboration between Zolima CityMag and the Hong Kong Design Centre's new design knowledge platform bodw+. Over the next several months, we will explore how design u…
At Adishakti Theatre's Remembering Veenapani festival, a clowning troupe from Uruguay explains how simple scripts can inspire powerful performances. If the slow afternoons in Adishakti Theat…
Actor Gregg Mozgala describes himself as a "Triple Threat: "Actor, Writer, Cripple." The 42-year-old award-winning actor and theatre professional, who has cerebral palsy, has been challengin…
This is Part II of the two-part interview. To read Part I, click here. Yana Meerzon: Should we assume that with the change of government and the end of Medvedev's modernization, the state re…
