Review: Whistleblower, directed by Arielle Gray, Wyatt Nixon-Lloyd, and Tim Watts. The Last Great Hunt for Perth Festival. The Whistleblower is a cross between a choose-your-own-adventure bo…
The theatre group's staging of the play Kando Ningal, Ente Kuttiye?, based on the life of the rights campaigner, tugs at heartstrings. With a hard-hitting play, the Navarang Theatre group he…
Playing Beatie Bow is the coming-of-age story of the teenage Abigail, who, from her home in Sydney's The Rocks, slips back in time to 1873. Here, she is taken in by the Tallisker/Bow family,…
"You are not here to see a play. You are here to see me settle a dispute with Ravi," Asha Jain, real-life mother of actor, director, and playwright, Ravi Jain, says at the top of their devis…
While theatre in its early days existed in a strong relationship with verse, the social, cultural, and technological developments of the eighteenth- and nineteenth centuries strained the tie…
The TX Theatre's double bill Mnquma & Ithemba is rich modern African contemporary dance-based storytelling. Located in the heart of the bustling township of Tembisa is the…
Colorful graffiti marks the facade of a shuttered shopping mall. People navigate their way around chain partitions and orange traffic cones. It's a scene that looks familiar to anyone who ha…
As the events of last year made clear, the police have a problem with race on both sides of the Atlantic. In the UK, BAME people are more than twice as likely to die in police custody while …
Review: The Cherry Orchard, directed by Clare Watson. Black Swan State Theatre Company for the Perth Festival. Stories get told over and over, each version sitting atop every other in a neve…
"No one's gonna believe me anyway," says Barbara repeatedly. She knows there is no point in answering her father's questions. The ruling surprised no one, yet she accepts it. She is not guil…
One could say that French-speaking communities around Asia are very lucky to be able to attend various stage plays every year and enjoy watching French-speaking comedians on stage on a regul…
As a female-identifying artist deeply invested in women's stories (and as a staunch feminist), I've been following the work of Artemisia Theatre for years. Their dedication to their mission …
He may live in New York, but playwright J.T. Rogers has spent a lot of time in Japan over the past few years, and it's not just because he loves the food there ("especially the white sliced …
Ossama Halal is a Syrian theater director, choreographer, and actor. He started his artistic journey as a hip-hop dancer and trainer in 1994 until 2000. He graduated from the Acting Departme…
Review: Whale Fall, written by Ian Sinclair and directed by Melissa Cantwell for The Kabuki Drop. Commissioned by PICA and co-presented with Perth Festival. Whale Fall follows the emotional …
From Beatlemania in the sixties to 2010 boy band sensation One Direction, to today's global phenomenon of K-Pop stars, different generations' fangirls share an obsession, devotion, and uncon…
This is a story you will have heard before. A genius but completely mad scientist " with the backing of a ruthlessly greedy corporation " creates a sentient robot. The scientist's intentions…
Redemption Room, an experiential horror-thriller theatre performance by New York-based Secret Theatre, is set to premiere in India. It is not unusual to lose oneself in a particularly intrig…
Networking is both motif and method in the work of River Lin (林人ä¸). Performing, directing, curating, and living between Taiwan and France, he has established himself as a fac…
Though theatrical season 2020/2021 isn't the most eventful, it has brought to the stage number of remarkable stagings, with several interpretations of a classic Shakespeare play to become ex…
Wrapped in COVID-Safe vigilance, Australian theatre has cautiously begun to welcome back guests. The Sydney Festival withstood border closures and local outbreaks to offer a wide varie…
Company Kamupene Written and performed by Jamie McCaskill. Presented by Tikapa Productions and The MÄori Sidesteps Collective. Directed by Simon Ferry and Craig Geenty. BATS Theatre, Well…
In Theater for Living, brutal honesty about the hardships of life onstage is winning over fans. "To earn, or not to earn? That is the question." From its opening line, a new Chinese reality …
Hypnotically charming, exquisitely flamboyant and the very embodiment of wit, Ryan J. Haddad wrote and performs in Hi, Are You Single co-produced by the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, in as…
Angola Camp 13, the multiple-award-winning South African State Theatre production, would not have happened had the powers-that-be had their way, according to its creator, celebrated write…