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Bizarre. Breathtaking. Beautiful. I leave the Royal Court theatre with these Bs, as well as others such as bewitching and beguiling, buzzing in my mind. Alistair McDowall, whose previous lef…
Every year in December, the Cairo Opera Ballet Company performs The Nutcracker at the Cairo Opera House's main hall, continuing a long tradition of performances of this magical work. This ye…
Over the last few years, the issue of decolonising the curriculum has become a growing concern for UK universities. This means recognising the legacy of western colonialism and rethinking th…
History is a prison. Often, you can't escape. It imprints its mark on people, environments and language. And nowhere is this more true that in Northern Ireland, where the long history of con…
Deniz BaÅŸar and Handan Salta attended Kosovo Theatre Showcase and apart from seeing the plays and witnessing the theatre scene they interviewed the guests of the showcase. The fourth of t…
October was the month of Surge Madrid festival. A collection of the alternative theater whose purpose was to show what artists on the fringes are doing. Dozens of plays could be enjoyed in t…
Learning to make music is a full mind-and-body activity. Whether teaching how to play a musical instrument, or how to sing, teachers rely on learners' physical cues to help them progress " c…
Science fiction is a genre very much associated with technological marvels, innovations, and visions of the future. So it may be surprising to find so many of its writers are drawn to Shakes…
Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven Connecticut stages a revival of Anna Deavere Smith's Fires in the Mirror, following the same production's staging at Baltimore Center Stage in Maryland last y…
Samson, the South African theatrical work produced by Third World Bunfight, is one of six winners of the prestigious World Music Theatre NOW! competition. Samson was written, directed …
CINDERELLA. A two-act musical. Written and directed by Faeron Wheeler. Musical Director: Tersia Harley. Choreography: Stephanie McCulloch. Lighting: Gary Fargher. Sound: Gail Duguid Fargher.…
Every month, Etcetera gazes into the soul of a performing artist. We choose artistic interest over human interest. This time, we are happy to give the word to Kelly Copper (1971). Together w…
Imitation of Death staged in Kozhikode Imitation of Death, a play staged at Zamorin's Higher Secondary School in Kozhikode from December 28, 2021 to January 1, 2022, was a site-specific inti…
Blood Knot, by legendary South African playwright Athol Fugard, which ran at the Market Theatre in November, had its first and only showing on September 3rd 1961, in what was described as a …
The National Theatre has a good record in staging classic American drama by black playwrights. James Baldwin's The Amen Corner, August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and Lorraine Hansberr…
In 2017, Coligny, a small dorpie in Bokone Bophirima (North West Province), was thrown into the national spotlight when a young black man was allegedly killed by two white men over the th…
It's a sign of the times that one of my last trips of the year, to Ella Road's Fair Play at the Bush Theatre, was cancelled because of COVID. Not that much of a surprise really: it's o…
After 15 years of entertaining audiences in Japan and abroad, the actors of Saitama Gold Theater will take the stage for the last time with "Mizu no Eki" ("The Water Station") this month. Fe…
At the end of the 1960s, American soul poet Gil Scott-Heron said that the revolution will not be televised. Maybe that's right, but a lot of other things were being broadcast in that decade,…
In the face of many challenges in Summer 2021, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts moved forward with its 10th annual Dramaturgy Intensive deploying a virtual mode. As the Cen…
Where and when: Harry J. Elam, Jr. Theater at Stanford University from November 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, and 20, 2021. Ramsey is a pretentious, Iraqi-American polyglot and Berkeley professor. Art…
All the rage in Beijing's stand-up circuit, Pazilye Parhat says much of comedy stems from genuine anger she's experienced all her life. A little after 8 p.m. on the eve of the Mid-Autumn Fes…
Head to London's West End and you are likely to find all sorts of plays for families, inspired by some of the most loved children stories. There is JK Rowling's Harry Potter And The Curse…
What did Stephen Sondheim mean to me? This is an attempt to bring order to the chaos. My first encounter with his work is a rerun of the 1962 film adaptation of West Side Story (1957). I am …
It could be easy to assume that The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories written in Middle English at the end of the 14th century, would not hold much relevance to contemporary debates …
