How often do audiences in a given city get the chance to see a full body of work by a single living playwright in the span of just one month? When this does happen, how often is the playwrig…
Within moments of the opening bars of Kit Armstrong's rendering of Bach's Goldberg Variations at the Walter Reade Theater on November 10th, I knew I was bearing witness to a truly special pe…
MaÅ¡a Ogrizek (1973), a university graduate in Sociology of Culture and a philosopher, has been self-employed in culture as a critic and writer since 2008. She has published book review…
Review:Â Black Drop Effect, directed by Felix Cross for Sydney Festival Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names of deceased people. Nardi Simp…
We tell ourselves stories in order to live. " Joan Didion, The White Album Theatre can be many things. It can provide a catalyst to action, help us make sense of the world, make us feel p…
El CÃrculo will have another run in this month's Santiago a Mil festival. This review is of a performance on June 9, 2019, at Matucana 100, Santiago de Chile.  With projections, pu…
There are angels in New York City who are teaching the arts to kids, and Lori Klinger is one of them. She co-founded Rosie's Theater Kids (RTKids) in 2003 with the help and support of Rosie …
Alana Dietze is an actress and director in Los Angeles. She is a company member and literary manager of the Echo Theater Company. As an actress, she has appeared on stage and on screen in bo…
To escape the mundanity of our own everyday. To revel in the ephemerality of storytelling. To imagine, to empathize, to learn, to transmit. The reasons we still attend, enjoy, and review the…
A staged legacy: Doyen of Marathi theatre, Shriram Lagoo gave life to political plays, worked in women's welfare and left behind a mark few could rival. Although widely acknowledged as a doy…
The 6th Edition of the Sanaa Theatre Awards took place in Nairobi city on December 17th, 2019. Sanaa Theatre Awards, founded by journalist and playwright George Orido in 2013, is Kenya's onl…
Two embarrassing conditions unsettled me at the top of Ellen West, the new opera by Ricky Ian Gordon based on the poem of the same name by Frank Bidart: I had to cough, and I was hungry. The…
Niko Gorsic is a Slovenian actor, performer, and theater director working under the pseudonym "Nick Upper". He is also a writer, journalist, editor, and a dance and art critic. In the year 1…
Japanese theater gets off to a flying start in 2020 with a collaboration between leading British and Japanese creators on the world premiere of a major new play being staged in Japanese. Pos…
This native Bostonian theatre production is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running play in the history of the USA. Shear Madness has everything: intrigue, hu…
The prolific Mike Bartlett " from whose pen have leaped television series such as Doctor Foster and Press, as well as stage hits such as King Charles III " has two things to celebrate …
The 1990s were a great decade for new writing, but although the story of those years is often told as the rise and rise of in-yer-face playwrights " such as Philip Ridley, Anthony Neilson, S…
An oddity of this theatrical season to ponder as we bid farewell to 2019:Â In two current New York productions model houses"gorgeous, meticulously constructed, doll-size edifices that spl…
Turn on the news. Go on. No? Okay, switch on the radio. Why not? Oh, I see, because the news is always bad. Yeah, I know what you mean. All those stories about how we're doomed because of gl…
In Jungian psychology, the house symbolizes the mind, with the basement representing the deepest part of the subconciousness. As in the physical world, that psychic basement is a place cramm…
It makes sense and feels good that two of the top 5 plays deal with mental health issues. Continuing with a tradition that has been bordering almost 10 years now, I asked a bunch of theatre …
"I have to leave my children if I want to make enough money to be with my children?" says Judy Garland, played by Renee Zellweger, to her friend Ken Frisch with a look of desperation. We mee…
This year the stage threw up apostles of hope aplenty, whose quiet energy and presence allowed us to re-imagine our own lives in the sheer privacy afforded by a seat in a darkened auditorium…
The world premiere of the Gangster musical, which will be staged by the Ankara State Opera and Ballet Modern Dance Ensemble, will be held Saturday, Jan. 11 in the capital Ankara. The musical…
What does it mean to build an oeuvre as a woman? There are still obstacles on the road that are related to being a woman. Which life questions are intertwined with the development of a life'…