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South America's trauma in the second half of the twentieth century can be summed up by one phrase: The Disappeared. Whether in Argentina or Chile or anywhere else, the victims of military di…
David Mamet's play Oleanna is about the power struggle between a university professor and one of his female students who accuses him of sexual harassment. It came out around the time of Anit…
Oleanna, David Mamet's then-startling play about sexual harassment and power dynamics, debuted in 1992. So much has happened since then " including, here in Ottawa, allegations of harassment…
Dramaturged and directed by native Kingston and award-winning playwright Judith Thompson, the collective creation Welcome to My Underworld consists of nine character pieces based on the perf…
Last winter, at the Studio Theatre at Ryerson University in downtown Toronto, Canadian actor Antoine Yared played Caliban in The Tempest. He stood, centre stage, looking out over the audienc…
The works of modern Irish playwright Samuel Beckett, largely absurdist and tragicomic in scope, are certainly not intended to be simple crowd pleasers. Rather, they display a depressingly mo…
Composer Paul Rudolph accompanies the cast through a score that is perfectly in sync with the story line. Delightfully, it is a musical score that reminds it's listener that this is how Musi…
This month, Moscow's Theatre of Nations graced the Barbican's stage with Shukshin's Stories, an exhilarating ensemble of eight tales by Vasily Shukshin (1929-74), directed by Alvis Herman…
City-based Rangasthalam Actors Studio turns the spotlight on International Women's Day theme for this year 'Balance for Better' with its play #Feminist. The International Women's Day initiat…
You think you have a handle on the messy business of appropriation? Then you haven't seen Kat Sandler's quick-witted Bang Bang, now at the Great Canadian Theatre Company in a solid homegrown…
Ballet Alice in Wonderland, and operas Carmen, Die Tote Stadt, and Das Rheingold. At the Finnish National Opera and Ballet (FNOB), situated in the heart of Helsinki on the beautiful T�…
"We are moving in the right direction, we cannot go back " There won't be more camps, more carnage. We are too aware. Now. And we will fight." " Erich Blum, Eight Nights Antaeus …
We live in a time, especially in America, of increasing political divide. Many politicians and voters see the political landscape as black and white, "us vs. them," and it seems like the poi…
Teatro Biondo Stabile in Palermo has a full-house. To the right, left and up in the surrounding galleries are a mixture of different generations: ones who were there thirty years ago and one…
James Sheldon's Reparations is a new play about racial grievance, guilt, and retribution in America that, oddly enough, is both very smart and completely sincere. What I mean by that is t…
The Black History Museum….According to the United States of America, Smoke & Mirrors Collaborative's new show at HERE Arts Center, combines, interrogates, reimagines, in short, chops &…
"What can we do to break down the myths and stereotypes of Thanksgiving in forty-five minutes with three people?…" " Logan (The Thanksgiving Play) Geffen Playhouse has kicked off the holid…
Love seems to have preoccupied the planning team of the 2019/2020 season: it rushes on stage in so many variations and thematic lines that it is difficult to choose which one to favor. On th…
Hannah Moscovitch has a rare gift for portraying sincere, nuanced relationships. To watch her characters on stage is to live their moments of pain, joy, and intimacy along with them. In her …
Founded in 2012 by two breakdancers, Souhail Marchiche and Mehdi Meghari, Compagnie Dyptik is based in St. Etienne, France. They've been developing choreographic works based upon hip hop val…
From Darkness is a story about the aftermath of sorry business " Aboriginal rituals that are observed during a period of mourning. It looks at how, on the first anniversary of a loved one's …
Bedlam Theatre, a New York City Company, was founded in 2012 by the actress Andrus Nichols and the actor/director Eric Tucker. Their first show, George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan, was perform…
Piyush Mishra's Gagan Damama Bajyo centers around the young freedom fighter's ideology of universal brotherhood, anarchism, atheism and fierce patriotism. The shenanigans of the past week ha…
Augustine's Dream  was presented in July 2019 at the Providence Fringe by  AnomalousCo. An interdisciplinary theater collective, the troupe develops new productions working wi…
What does it mean to be an "ordinary" Australian in anatomizing and globalized world economy? Anthem brings together the writers behind the celebrated 1998 Melbourne Workers' Theatre product…
