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An off-Broadway musical about the art of producing a musical and the love of show business "Sesame Street: The Musical" brings to life the voices and ideas of a magical street unlike any oth…
Therapy is inherently dramatic. After all, it's all about character " and it has the aim of producing a recognizable change. But who is most affected by the process: client or therapist? Geo…
Since 2015, a large bronze statue has stood outside the Theatre Royal Stratford East. Raised on a plinth above the heads of passing shoppers, 'The Mother of Modern Theatre' by sculptor Phili…
The play seeks to draw parallels between Desdemona from Othello and select women from Indian epics Natya & STEM (Space. Time. Energy. Movement) Dance Kampni presents Kampni Kutcheri "…
The opera Four Saints in Three Acts' astonishingly successful run on Broadway in 1934 was the most celebrated avant-garde theater triumph of its age. With a libretto by Gertrude Stein that t…
The third edition of the Micro Theatre Festival (MTF) will kick off Saturday 8 October and run through Wednesday 12 October in both Cairo and Alexandria. This year's festival is hosted by…
'As artists we are always looking to do something bigger and better than the last thing we did and I was looking for a show to do after Sarafina which would be as big or better. I happened t…
"Patriarchy is a judge that judges us for being born" proclaims the banner wrapped above our heads, twined about the black box Mark O'Donnell Theater. It is a saying often associated, in one…
The Trianon Viviani Theatre had offered a new chapter of the special project "Viviani on the Road" ("Viviani per strada"), created and directed by the famous actor Nello Mascia as an homa…
Musical drama of unlearned lessons is perhaps the most appropriate definition for Evgeny Pisarev's loud, in all senses, performance Cabaret. If this premiere had taken place at the Theatre o…
This October, playwright Ryan Drake and director Ryan Dobrin bring a memory play to the IRT Theater that explores online sexuality.
The full version of the article A Queer Memory Play for t…
Young Europe IV is a large-scale artistic collaboration project to tackle the dominance of stories from a white, male, heterosexual perspective, and create a more diverse and inclusive theat…
Identity is the sum of the stories we tell ourselves. Some of these are personal, and some political. Sometimes they blend, sometimes clash. In Aaron Kilercioglu and Bilal Hasna's excellentl…
Before there was After Midnight, before there was Smokey Joe's Cafe, and before there was Black and Blue, there was Ain't Misbehavin', the 1978 musical revue featuring the Fats Waller songbo…
Technology and the theater are closer together than ever, and our hope for the planet may depend on it. After my seventh time seeing Chekhov brought to life through NFTs, robots, and an …
Why is this boy-kills-girl play different from all other boy-kills-girl plays? For starters, it might not be, but for me, Marie It's Time, Julia Jarcho's delightfully perverse riff on the 18…
Review: My Self in That Moment, directed by Tamara Saulwick for Chamber Made. In his visionary essay published almost a century ago, Walter Benjamin argued that something of the aur…
Review: Tell Me I'm Here, directed by Leticia Cáceres, Belvoir. Released in 1991, the memoir Tell Me I'm Here remains a landmark examination of the experience of mental illness in Austral…
Suicide is the second highest cause of death in 15-to-29-year-olds around the world, according to UK charity Young Minds, an organization set up to help children and young people with …
Lately, I have been seeing examples of Jason Jamerson's theatrical design work on Instagram " images he has made in collaboration with Artificial Intelligence apps. According to a recent art…
'If this were a text for the theatre, here is how it would begin' " these are the opening words of the French literary superstar Édouard Louis's third book Who Killed My Father, publishe…
On June 13, 2022, I spoke with Guillaume Gay, who is operational and artistic director of the French Polynesia-based La Compagnie du Caméléon. Across the Whatsapp airwaves, fifteen thousan…
"Time means nothing. That is, it does, but not in the way we think," says Joseph, the protagonist of the play "Ask Joseph," by Slava Stepnov and Roman Freud. He tries to explain to his wife …
Review: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, directed by Kip Williams for Sydney Theatre Company With their new production, Kip Williams and the Sydney Theatre Company have revisited the a…
African American drama, theater and performance has a rich and complex history. Only recently, however, the U.S. theater establishment seems to recognize the work of young Black playwrights …
