Peesappilly Rajeevan talks about his artistic journey, the state of Kathakali today and what needs to be done to make the art form strike a chord with contemporary viewers. It will be too si…
Allow me to introduce you to the fierce yet fragile preteens who populate Clare Barron's savagely wonderful play Dance Nation. There's Sofia (Mei Lu Barnum), that girl you knew in middle sch…
After he won the World Heavyweight Championship by roundly defeating Sonny Liston on February 25th, 1964, Cassius Clay celebrated his victory in private with three friends: R & B star Sa…
Eve Leigh is an experimental playwright who has tackled difficult issues for more than a decade. Yet most members of the public will know her, and her actor husband Tom Penn, as the neighbor…
Two years ago, the British director Richard Jones brought a stunning production of Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape to the Park Avenue Armory that set a new bar for theatrical use of that venu…
Like two other plays that premiered this year, Agata Siniarska's You Are Safe, and The Last One directed by Romuald Krężel, Trump and the Field of Maze takes on climate change. PaweŅ
Shuntaro Matsubara's first contact with live theatre was in 2014, when he saw a production of German dramatist Bertolt Brecht's 1930 play Fatzer (aka Downfall of the Egotist Johann Fatzer) a…
Lucy McCormick specializes in historical re-enactments, she tells us, and she is here to play all the women of history, as a means of finding her hero. All this " within about one hour, and …
Amanda Palmer has not come to entertain. Instead, she has written and designed what feels like an entirely new form of musical theatre, a 4-hour blisteringly personal monologue that ranges i…
Researcher and critic Lisa Moravec explores how two performances of this year's ImPulsTanz, Vienna's International Dance Festival, challenge our understanding of a mechanized body-based poli…
It is hard to believe that Shelagh Delaney wrote A Taste of Honey when she was only nineteen. This increasingly textured and knotty play, which received its first"and famous"staging in 1958,…
I'm not apologizing: this is going to take time. Visit a website. Choose an image: of a bag of rice, or a hibiscus flower, or a protest with a placard saying "Stop Racism." Download a soundt…
How far can bodily interaction amongst the audience members, with performance objects, and with the performers go? Is it ok to be touched by and to touch what is available within a black box…
Karen Malpede's plays scream "Pay Attention." Thus I titled my 2001 New York Times article on I Will Bear Witness, her play based on the war diaries of Victor Klemperer, and the same is t…
Amanda Levie is the founder and director of No Peeking Theatre, a New York-based theatre company that takes away the aspect of sight to create an equal and new approach to theatre. Levie aim…
The play My Father " His Exalted Highness was a nuanced depiction of the concerns of a ruler on the cusp of history. For about 75 minutes, the stage at Ravindra Bharathi became the Nazir Bag…
"We are women who do what must be done" so says the cigarette-puffing, mahjong-addicted great-grandmother in Jeff Ho's one-man play Trace, now at the National Arts Centre. The fallout of doi…
Almighty Voice and his Wife, a play written by Daniel David Moses in 1991, was recently staged in Toronto. It is the first Indigenous play on the stage of Soulpepper Theatre, Toronto's large…
Artists from three different and fairly distant parts of the world " Australia, Brazil and Switzerland " employ movement, dance and gestures on the screen to represent their countries at the…
Reader, if " like me " you're a relatively recent transplant to Pittsburgh, the presence of the term "yinz" in the title of anything might immediately raise a question about your audience-sh…
An emerging sidelight at the annual Prithvi Theatre Festival is its selection of fringe offerings that are usually showcased at Prithvi House, a first-floor assembly space in the residential…
I'm a thirty-four-year-old straight woman who grew up in the suburbs with an older brother. That means I've spent a lot of time watching dudes play video games. I thought those days were beh…
This Duchess of Malfi is a cool one. It is so cool that it has lost its gripping temper and, with it, some of its fire. A surprising drop in temperature, because director Rebecca Frecknall h…
I'm crouching along with a group of strangers, waiting for Anna to arrive. I have never met Anna but I know I'm her friend. This is her surprise party. We are at her house, in the dark, expe…
If you're a culture vulture and are interested in TV and theater, most likely, you know a lot about Krysta Rodriguez. She can be found at the MCC Theater in a play by Theresa Rebeck called S…