Shakespeare's language is widely considered to represent the pinnacle of English. But that status is underpinned by multiple myths " ideas about language that have departed from reality (or …
Here's a few things to start with. Following my recent relocation from London to the Swedish equivalent of Oxford, this is my first encounter with the Lund Comedy Festival. The three-day eve…
To read Part 1 of this interview, click here. Nahm: Let's talk now about Texas Aunt. I said earlier that The Wooden Boat is a great Korean play to introduce to international audiences. Bu…
Interview and translation by Kee-Yoon Nahm. Â Yun Mi Hyun is a playwright based in South Korea. After writing fiction and poetry in her early career, she debuted as a playwright in 2012 w…
Performance "When God Kicks You In The Womb", based on the novel by Ildiko LovaÅ¡, is a play by Hungarian actors that live and work in Serbia and its theatres. AndraÅ¡ Urban, an authenti…
Skeleton Crew is Dominique Morisseau's best play so far. It's the most streamlined work in her celebrated Detroit trilogy, more tightly plotted, surprising, and moving than either Detroit '6…
Interview of the "original" Gringoire from Notre Dame de Paris the musical " Â Bruno Pelletier with Lisa Monde, August 5th 2022 This past August Bruno Pelletier " the "Golden voice of Cana…
The opening play of the Blyth Theatre Season, Michael Healey's Canadian classic, The Drawer Boy, has once more come home. Set in a farming community in Huron County, its starting poin…
Cottagers and Indians by Drew Hayden Taylor A lazy afternoon on a cedar deck that could be anywhere in Ontario cottage country. A casually dressed, mature woman from Toronto (her relaxed …
Bodies of Knowledge (BOK) is a semi-nomadic classroom that facilitates alternative and non-dominant forms of learning that have the potential to lead us to a more humane and just society. Bo…
The 25th edition of the international theatre and dance festival Mladi Levi (Young Lions) was successfully held in Ljubljana from 19th to 27th August. The festival, organized by a Slovenian …
Dr. Art Babayants is a multilingual artist-scholar who lives and works in what is now called Canada. His training combines the Stanislavsky school of acting, Meyerhold's Biomechanics and Ind…
I can prescribe the remedy if you need medicine to blow up your imagination! Get a ticket to Kurios: Cabinet of Curiosities! Kurios, written and directed by Michel Laprise, is the 35th creat…
This review contains spoilers. TW: suicide, homicide, mental illness The Butcher Boy, which opened last week at the Irish Repertory Theater is deeply upsetting, but less so due to the gore i…
This is part 2 of the bipartite interview. To read part 1, click here. Welcome back to the second and final installment in my conversation with my dear friend and collaborator, Regan Hicks, …
Regan Hicks is one of my dearest friends and closest collaborators. We've worked on a number of projects together over the past few years, each time beneficial, each time an utter delight. T…
American playwright and concert pianist, William Robert Martin, is an emerging artist whose star is on the rise. His 1930s-style musical comedy about George Gershwin writing a musical comedy…
I went to theatre school. Know this before reading on. I went to theatre school, trained as an actor at a conservatory on the East Coast. I am well-versed in the racing of the heart while wa…
While Britain is experiencing a "summer of discontent", with inflation, strikes and other conflicts, it is odd that so few plays are as overtly political, and as overtly resonant as Sonali B…
If nothing else, you have to admire the chutzpah of Robert Icke's Oresteia, which tries to collapse the 8-hour, 3-play action of Aeschylus's monumental Oresteia"a founding work of Western dr…
What might Anton Chekov, that Russian master of the nineteenth century, have to say about the current climate crisis? A recent production of The Cherry Orchard by PETE (Portland Experimental…
The pioneering theatre company, founded and run by Afghan theatre maker and refugee, Saleh Sepas, is creating a practice that enriches the cultural landscape for all Malaysians. I met Saleh …
Khaled Hosseini's 2003 novel The Kite Runner is a vividly descriptive and often gripping tale of guilt and expiation, class conflict, and wrenching refugee experience, set mostly in Afghanis…
Whispering the word BOTO into the speakeasy-style window of a door, I felt a sense of trepidation, adrenaline rush, and giddiness. The latter came from the feeling that I was about to partic…
Just over a hundred years since its founding (by impresario and theatre director Max Reinhardt), the Salzburg Festival honours the nearly forgotten 20th-century south German writer Marieluis…