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Diverting from the original Odyssey, this Penelope was a fierce and cunning weaver of stories. So rather than surrendering to the unrelenting desires of the suitors, she fabricated glorious …
How is theater like a support group? This question struck me upon entering The Strangers Came Today, which recently concluded its run at New Ohio Theatre in New York City. The play by Emi…
By Molly Grogan Hong Kong's branding campaign as "Asia's World City" sings the praises of its liveability, connectivity, entrepreneurialism and more. But only the sunniest observers of the c…
The western Hungarian city of GyÅ‘r will once again be dominated by dance this year from June 13 to 19. With the GyÅ‘r Ballet's production of Róbert Hrutka-Jamie Winchester, the 17t…
We see Crystal suspended in the air, hovering 30-some feet above the ice, slowly twisting and swimming through the air while being lowered down towards the stage as if sinking into water. Th…
Embodying a portfolio of projects, metaLAB (at) Harvard is a think tank spotlighting the networked arts and humanities. Set at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Un…
Péter Haumann, a Kossuth and Jászai Mari Prize-winning actor, a full member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts and an actor of the nation, passed away on Saturday afternoon after a long an…
As London celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Pride Parade on July 2, I'm reminded of the only play in London I've seen that has an asexual (or "ace") main character: The Slug Show. Premi…
On May 8, 2022, Nigerian-American artist Okwui Okpokwasili's Bronx Gothic (2014) at Kunstenfestivaldesarts did not end. It didn't end because not only its story rides on the perpetual …
Dmitry Krymov: artist, director, stage designer, teacher. The son of two of the great theatrical figures of the twentieth century, Anatoly Efros and Natalia Krymova, he started out working a…
Taylor Mac is one of those magi of pandemonium who knows how to breach the defenses of people like me who don't surrender easily to orgiastic theatricality. There's something about Mac's par…
I went to the new opera Intimate Apparel because the 2003 play it was made from is one of my favorites by Lynn Nottage. Cards on the table, I'm no opera fan in general but rather one of thos…
For most of the last two years, Bengaluru-based actor and playwright Spatica Ramanujam was feeling restricted due to the inability to mount a new play. This feeling, of course, was near-univ…
Review: Anything & Everything, Platform Arts, infinity ensemble for Rising. Anything & Everything reminds me of a rite of passage we have all sailed through, in one way or another. T…
SHADOW BOXING. Director/Choreographer: Mdu Kweyama. Cast: Daniel Newton. Masambe Theatre at the Baxter. A lustrous performance from Daniel Newton does ample justice to the nuanced text of Sh…
A contemporary opera has conquered one of the oldest and prettiest theaters in Spain. It is titled Borderland, maldita cabeza (Borderland, damned head) by Marta Eguilior, the librettist, sta…
A Preview of a new translation of Molière's Dom Juan for the 21st century by Gideon Lester and Sylvaine Guyot, as interviewed by Philippa Wehle. 2022 is celebrating the 400th birthday of th…
I began my tenure as Chair of the LMDA Conference during the early days of COVID. This was back when we thought we would have a vaccine in six months. That did not happen. As more live perfo…
We'll Meet Again Richard Loring's nostalgic musical tribute to World War II. Director/Set design: Barry Altwig. Lighting: Barry Strick. Sound: Trevor Lind. Music Direction/Choreography: Ters…
With nine Broadway musicals currently playing on Australian stages " and a further three set to open or reopen in coming months " audiences could be forgiven for thinking "what pandemi…
Theatre is slowly recovering from the effects of the pandemic, and many shows which were canceled because of the first lockdown are now finally getting a staging. The latest is Satinder Choh…
There is always a cultural gap between scholars and artists, each group being suspicious of the other. Patrice Pavis (1947, France) is an internationally renowned theater scholar. He was a P…
Theatre veteran PC Ramakrishna turns author with Find Your Voice, a guide on how to navigate a career as a voice professional You do not need to see PC Ramakrisha to recognise him. You ju…
Production-oriented workshops culminate in ticketed Telugu plays in Hyderabad. A manager by day and an actor by evening … Surabhi Santhosh's transformation is effortless. The 36-year-old f…
In the past, most plays by black-British writers have been about the legacy of the Windrush generation, or occasionally about migrants from west Africa, and their main theme has been exposin…
