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"Static" is one of those words from which most artists recoil. It's typically used for something felt to be listless, inert, and boring. In fact, physical stasis is an artistic tool, or at l…
HEN. Johanny Bert " Théâtre de Romette. January 22, 2020. Le Mouffetard " Théâtre des Arts de la Marionnette, Paris, France "If you allow me the time to exist, everything will be …
The National Arts Centre's website calls Jivesh Parasram's Take d Milk, Nah? a "highly-hyphenated story about the search for identity." This is certainly the case: Parasram's burst ont…
Do you hear the people sing? In recent months, you're more likely to have heard news stories about the longest running West End musical than the actual music. Stephen Sondheim " who celebrat…
Sylvia Huszár is a Hungarian independent theater producer with an international background, a theater theoretician and a translator. She has been working with contemporary theaters for mo…
From the pre-show announcement, we know we won't catch all that is said onstage during Unikkaaqtuat; in being honest, we won't have to. In freeing ourselves from the tethers of language-a…
A theatrical performance by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants grapples with the subject; the show is set to travel to many parts of the country Two junior associates at a la…
Review: Lady Tabouli, directed by Dino Dimitriadis, National Theatre of Parramatta for Sydney Festival. In Australia in 2020, it's hard to think homosexuality is still viewed as a sin and a …
Theatre is a business as well as a craft. And surveys about theatre often have a business side to them. So a recent survey about how many Shakespeare quotations members of the general public…
The wilting characters of Uncle Vanya would like us to believe that their scenes from country life should not amount to much, except, perhaps, for an endless succession of tedious trifles. T…
Queen Victoria is a strong symbol of the old British Empire. For some 200 years, up to the 1950s, the country's colonial history dominated the national mindset, and arguably we still live in…
This excerpt is taken from the concluding chapter of Performance, Medicine and the Human, a book on contemporary medical performance. The author examines one example of medical performance "…
How often do audiences in a given city get the chance to see a full body of work by a single living playwright in the span of just one month? When this does happen, how often is the playwrig…
Within moments of the opening bars of Kit Armstrong's rendering of Bach's Goldberg Variations at the Walter Reade Theater on November 10th, I knew I was bearing witness to a truly special pe…
MaÅ¡a Ogrizek (1973), a university graduate in Sociology of Culture and a philosopher, has been self-employed in culture as a critic and writer since 2008. She has published book review…
Review:Â Black Drop Effect, directed by Felix Cross for Sydney Festival Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names of deceased people. Nardi Simp…
We tell ourselves stories in order to live. " Joan Didion, The White Album Theatre can be many things. It can provide a catalyst to action, help us make sense of the world, make us feel p…
El CÃrculo will have another run in this month's Santiago a Mil festival. This review is of a performance on June 9, 2019, at Matucana 100, Santiago de Chile.  With projections, pu…
There are angels in New York City who are teaching the arts to kids, and Lori Klinger is one of them. She co-founded Rosie's Theater Kids (RTKids) in 2003 with the help and support of Rosie …
Alana Dietze is an actress and director in Los Angeles. She is a company member and literary manager of the Echo Theater Company. As an actress, she has appeared on stage and on screen in bo…
To escape the mundanity of our own everyday. To revel in the ephemerality of storytelling. To imagine, to empathize, to learn, to transmit. The reasons we still attend, enjoy, and review the…
A staged legacy: Doyen of Marathi theatre, Shriram Lagoo gave life to political plays, worked in women's welfare and left behind a mark few could rival. Although widely acknowledged as a doy…
The 6th Edition of the Sanaa Theatre Awards took place in Nairobi city on December 17th, 2019. Sanaa Theatre Awards, founded by journalist and playwright George Orido in 2013, is Kenya's onl…
Two embarrassing conditions unsettled me at the top of Ellen West, the new opera by Ricky Ian Gordon based on the poem of the same name by Frank Bidart: I had to cough, and I was hungry. The…
Niko Gorsic is a Slovenian actor, performer, and theater director working under the pseudonym "Nick Upper". He is also a writer, journalist, editor, and a dance and art critic. In the year 1…
