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Dr. Samir Talib is an Iraqi scholar specializing in Shakespeare and Renaissance studies. He earned his M.A. in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature from Baghdad University in 2005, followe…
Created by On the Rocks Theatre Co. (the two person co-writer and designer team Christopher Ford and Dakota Rose) The Beastiary is a hypnotic feast for the senses, engorging its audiences in…
Emily Bronte doesn't have an acronym but Franz Kafka does and Kafkaesque! Directed by Ashley Brooke Monroe and now running at Theatre 154 has 90 jam packed minutes proving why. James Harvey'…
Fringe venues perform a vital role on the ecology of London theatre. While many shows at these small venues are underfunded, and some are frankly rough as well as ready, you can occasionally…
It is the 24th of September 2024 in Ä°stanbul, and I'm finding my way through the curvy streets of Galata to reach Asmalı Sahne, an alternative-independent blackbox space that was estab…
When the premiere performance of the play 1981, directed by Tomi JanežiÄ, began at the Novi Sad Theatre/Újvidéki SzÃnház, time stood still. A milky way of new theatrical move…
One day, Laura Jones was late to pick up her three-year-old daughter, Amy. Not a happy moment for the little girl, Jones's tardiness would have a major impact on her career as a director. Fo…
The Christine Jorgensen Show isn't perfect, but it's just so delightfully charming it's hard to notice. Jesse James Keitel as the world's first transgender celebrity Christine Jorgensen and …
Tattooer is a playful yet critical adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki's (1886-1965) debut short story of 1910 by the same name. Adapted by Takuya Kaneshima and directed by Hogara Kawai in a…
Back in 2019, I decided to write a book about the Leeds Playhouse. "Why?", my friends asked me; "Because no one else has done so", was often my reply. The Playhouse was about to celebrate it…
Inside the Public Theater it's 2019 and Australia is on fire. Outside the theater it's 2024 and North Carolina is under water. It is with this context that Australian theater artist and game…
The city of Milan hosts two annual Fringe events, the first in June, and the second, in late September and early October. I caught the latter, Fringe Milanooff, situated in forty different v…
The myth of Oedipus is so central to our psychic world that I was really surprised how many people in the audience for this revival were shocked by the revelation of the protagonist's incest…
"My head feels like a bridge that all of Beijing has been walking over." The stage is bare except for a backlit figure who emerges in silhouette through a doorway, wearing a nondescript rain…
The stage explodes with ihi (essential force) and aroha (love, empathy) in Unreel, the new work by MÄori theatre company Te RÄkau Hua O Te Wao Tapu (which translates as The Blossoming …
The meeting point is in l'Animal a l'esquena, Malpelo dance company rehearsals site. Celrá forest and crops that surrounds the place will become the stages of the pieces included in Paisa…
The entire stage is the same shade of pale, dusty pink: the extra-long couch and side tables, the floor, the three backdrops encompassing the interior of an elegant urban apartment of the up…
Yuri Kordonsky's Eréndira at the German State Theatre in TimiÈ™oara is a visually gorgeous, well-acted, and imaginatively directed stage adaptation of a seedy and second-rate 1972 novell…
A couple of hours before watching José Rivera's play Cloud Tectonics staged at the German State Theatre in TimiÈ™oara, Romania, I was chatting with the theatre's head of dramaturgy and P…
At this year's Edinburgh Festival in the Grotowski Institute Residence Cube at Fringe 2024 Wachowicz/Fret Studio presented two performances: Border and Sheol/ש×ול. Both are extr…
How is the German State Theatre different from other Romanian public theatres? Last year, when TimiÈ™oara was the European Capital of Culture, international visitors were very surprised t…
The 6th biennial Singapore Literature Festival is held in New York City on October 19 and 20, 2024. Under the title "Living Adaptations," the festival will spotlight writing and directing fo…
Dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the musical Mozart! Contains fragments of the exclusive interviews with the creators of the show " Michael Kunze and Sylvester Levay  The premiere of…
Roald Dahl evokes mixed feelings. He's one of the greatest children's storytellers, whose macabre books have sold hundreds of millions of copies worldwide; he was also anti-Semitic, and used…
All around me people are laughing uproariously, slapping their knees, bursting into applause mid song and here I sit in the middle of it all utterly baffled. Forbidden Broadway: Merrily We S…
