With William Shakespeare's iconic use of English lost in translation, bold and reimagined versions of his works have long blossomed in Japan, as dramatists have mainly taken inspiration from…
Cunningham Directed by Alla Kovgan "A 3D cinematic experience about legendary American choreographer Merce Cunningham (…) creating a moving and visceral journey through Merce's world" i…
To find Unmaking Toulouse-Lautrec, you will first enter through the wrong door. The production is being staged at the SoHo bar Madame X, but upstairs; go in through the main entrance and you…
Your story. Our story. Their story. Just imagine: you're a political refugee, and, having experienced horrible things that happened to your family, you finally, after a lot of trouble, arriv…
We last saw them on stage in 2016. We thought they had gone down the way of most companies " consigned their talents to oblivion. But on February 1st, 2020, Dance Theatre Uganda returned to …
Many will be familiar with the looming presence of Oedipus or Antigone in Classical Greek tragedy. But how many remember the so-called secondary characters (nurses, soldiers, pedagogues) wit…
There is nothing wrong with Albion. But the fact that the play is now 'returning' to the Almeida Theatre, following a successful run in 2017, means that it demands a different level of engag…
There's a danger to hasty reaction.  To act on instinct is to perhaps ignore a bigger contextual picture; a gut-reaction, after all, is only as informed as its bearer. Sometimes that i…
In theater, as in daily life, it is possible to have too much of a good thing. Such was the case with Tempo 12-nen no Shakespeare (Shakespeare in Year 12 of the Tempo Era) by dramatist and w…
If this year's Sydney Festival is any indication, the monologue is back. So far, I have seen Adam Lazarus's Daughter, Joel Bray's Biladurang, Omar Musa's Since Ali Died, Tara Beagan's Deer W…
Visiting the city of Boston during its national tour, the Second City sketch revue She The People: Girlfriends' Guide to Sisters Doing it for Themselves has landed at the Huntington Theatre …
Okay, my global theatre friends, we admit it " we here in Los Angeles have been missing out. Sure, yes, we have a lot of wonderful things going for us. We have the film industry, whi…
Antoinette Nwandu's play Pass Over is a palimpsest. Its outer surface looks familiar: haunted by the ever-present threat of a murderous police force, two black men are paralyzed into inactio…
One of Boston's long-running interactive theatrical events, now featured routinely at the American Repertory Theater's OBERON theatre in Cambridge, Old School Game Show is a madcap throwback…
A one-man show by Hong Kong writer and performer Armie Ma will have its Australian debut in Adelaide Fringe Festival 2020. The show is called No Coming Back, a project conceived solely and p…
Genetic engineering is in the news again. This follows the resignation of Andrew Sabisky as special advisor to Boris Johnson after a twitter storm about his comments on race and intelligence…
She is in her eighties when we meet her and shares with the audience the story of her life which began in a tiny Russian village, took her to Warsaw's ghettos and a ship called The Exodus, a…
The Lion and The Lamb, the biblically-inspired musical which retells the story of Jesus, was conceived and written by multi-award-winning theatre royalty, John Kani and the late Barney Simon…
Now that's what I call a star turn. Hitting the brakes on an express train, Lesley Manville lands on the National Theatre's Olivier stage surrounded by thick smoke, supported by prosthetic l…
The VW Dome at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens is the evocative setting of web-inspired performance Star Odyssey: The Pilot. The show is the creation of Emily Allan and Leah Hennessey, …
Van Wyk, The Storyteller of Riverlea based on the life of late writer, political activist and poet Chris Van Wyk, which has just ended at the Market Theatre, is a deceptively brilliant…
History plays should perform a delicate balancing act: they have to tell us something worth knowing about the past, that foreign country where they do things differently, and also something …
Have you ever been to the theatre, looked around, and thought about how predominantly white the audience is? Does the same impression come to mind when visiting museums? If it does and the a…
For fans of the whodunit as gradually unfolding conundrum rather than mere build-up to a climactic masterstroke, an Indian reboot of a British play based on the 1962 Agatha Christie novel,Â…
The newest play from Australia's most prolific playwright sees David Williamson in vintage form. Scenography Sophie Fletcher, set designer for David Williamson's new state-of-the-nation play…