Diversity in film is important, but in animation, it carries an even heavier, different message. Since animation is mainly geared towards children, it is even more important to have characte…
THE BLUE PIANO/THE BLUE GUITAR. Director: Fred Abrahamse. Cast: Matthew Baldwin, Zoë McLaughlin and Marcel Meyer. Accompaniment/Musical Direction: Jaco Griessel. The Vineyard Hotel, Ne…
The futureStage Manifesto was written by the futreStage Research Group at Harvard metaLAB.* It offers a vision of performance as a human right, intimately entangled with all the stages on…
'As an immigrant playwright in Denmark adapting August Strindberg's world classic 'at source' (Miss Julie premiered in Copenhagen 1888 as penned by iconic Swedish playwright August Strindber…
Balkan Bordello: An Orgiastic Musical in the Aftermath of War Imagine yourself at a hedonistic nightclub full of campy decorations, cheap furniture and guests that drown themselves in sh…
It's been nearly 100 years since George Enesco's Å’dipe (Oedipus) was created to much success on the Paris Opera stage. Today, the opera remains an elusive gem, with live performances sta…
The second show after The Times They Are a-Changin' to use the music of the great midwestern musician, Girl From the North Country proves the greater of the two. It opts for whic…
Hypocrisy. Is this the right word? I don't mean the play, but the audience. Of course, in the middle of the current COVID-19 crisis, there's bound to be a certain amount of discomfort whe…
Recognizing excellence in live Broadway theater, the Tony Awards bestowed the jukebox adaptation of Baz Luhrmann's hyperactive 2001 movie, Moulin Rouge! The Musical! and The Inheritance with…
Chinese musical theater has largely abandoned high-concept shows in favor of shallow engagement with idol culture. Where are all the Chinese musicals? This question isn't as low stakes as it…
Wolves and a dark night. The perfect match. Those lines get me every time. From the first time I read them, in a café on the edge of my seat with my hand over my mouth, to now, three years …
The actor Tonino Taiuti paid homage to Beckett in the Foyer of the Mercadante Theatre in Naples with Krapp's Last Tape and an art exhibition. The full version of the article Tonino Taiut…
'The pandemic did interesting things for creativity, forcing us to sequester ourselves and finish works that we hadn't yet finished. It gave us an opportunity to really hanker down. We're gl…
I've totally enjoyed the many faces of Pieter-Dirk Uys over the years " from his most famous alter-ego Evita Bezuidenhout to his most infamous apartheid-era send-ups. Uys has always been equ…
Hyderabad's Nishumbita group to stage Golakonda, which merges puppetry, Kuchipudi and theatre This weekend, 18 actors of Hyderabad's Nishumbita theatre group will play a total of 182 charact…
Directed by South African theatre and film industry stalwart Dr. Jerry Mofokeng wa Makhetha, A Raisin in the Sun, written by famed American playwright Lorraine Hansberry, is a classic …
Review: Return to the Dirt, written by Steve Pirie and directed by Lee Lewis, Queensland Theatre I head to the world premiere of Return to the Dirt by Steve Pirie without reading the press m…
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It's trite to write about how hard it is to live from lockdown to lockdown; from one mask change to another; from vaccination to revaccination. Yet life consists of platitudes. It is trite t…
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As theatres reopened after the summer recess, the plays on offer in the Spanish capital were dominated by recreations of the country's past. As with much cultural production, theatre perform…
Remembering the months of lockdown, I can't be the only person to thrill to this play's opening lines, "When shall we three meet again?", a phrase evocative enough to be borrowed for the fir…
The play Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran, authentically narrates the story of a famous fatal Porsche crash in north Tehran that triggered heated debate on social media about…
Aguibou Bougobali Sanou (known as Bougobali) is a choreographer, performer, and director of the In-Out Festival in Burkina Faso. A recipient of many awards and grants including a Fulbr…
When the COVID-19 pandemic reached Brazil, I was in the city of São Paulo, covering an international theater festival, MIT-sp. On the last days of the event, we saw theaters being locked …