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Japanese theater gets off to a flying start in 2020 with a collaboration between leading British and Japanese creators on the world premiere of a major new play being staged in Japanese. Pos…
This native Bostonian theatre production is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running play in the history of the USA. Shear Madness has everything: intrigue, hu…
The prolific Mike Bartlett " from whose pen have leaped television series such as Doctor Foster and Press, as well as stage hits such as King Charles III " has two things to celebrate …
The 1990s were a great decade for new writing, but although the story of those years is often told as the rise and rise of in-yer-face playwrights " such as Philip Ridley, Anthony Neilson, S…
An oddity of this theatrical season to ponder as we bid farewell to 2019:Â In two current New York productions model houses"gorgeous, meticulously constructed, doll-size edifices that spl…
Turn on the news. Go on. No? Okay, switch on the radio. Why not? Oh, I see, because the news is always bad. Yeah, I know what you mean. All those stories about how we're doomed because of gl…
In Jungian psychology, the house symbolizes the mind, with the basement representing the deepest part of the subconciousness. As in the physical world, that psychic basement is a place cramm…
It makes sense and feels good that two of the top 5 plays deal with mental health issues. Continuing with a tradition that has been bordering almost 10 years now, I asked a bunch of theatre …
"I have to leave my children if I want to make enough money to be with my children?" says Judy Garland, played by Renee Zellweger, to her friend Ken Frisch with a look of desperation. We mee…
This year the stage threw up apostles of hope aplenty, whose quiet energy and presence allowed us to re-imagine our own lives in the sheer privacy afforded by a seat in a darkened auditorium…
The world premiere of the Gangster musical, which will be staged by the Ankara State Opera and Ballet Modern Dance Ensemble, will be held Saturday, Jan. 11 in the capital Ankara. The musical…
What does it mean to build an oeuvre as a woman? There are still obstacles on the road that are related to being a woman. Which life questions are intertwined with the development of a life'…
Have you ever been nervous about going to the theatre? Maybe you're unfamiliar with theatre etiquette, maybe you have children, or maybe you find it hard to stay still for hours feeling trap…
The Moscow-located Bolshoi theatre quite literally translates to "Big" Theatre. And yes, it is quite big. But actually, the naming process was a bit more complicated than that. There are few…
Ntozake Shange, author of the famous Broadway play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuff, once said: "My goal is to be a primary, not a secondary source."…
 In her contemporary re-working of Sophocles' tragedy, Lulu Raczka has chosen to forego the classical elements of tragedy altogether. No Kreon, no sense of hubris, and no punishment by t…
What has Saint Augustine of Hippo got to do with new writing? At first sight, not very much. That is, until you read Alan Burdick's elegant program note to Alexandra Wood's latest play, The …
What are the first words you think of when you hear the name Mary Magdalene? Prostitute? Saved? Jesus? (#)Me too. In their extraordinary new chamber opera Magdalene, part of Prototype Festiv…
The annual ATHE (Associations for Theatre in Higher Education) conference took place in Orlando, FL, from August 7 to 11, 2019, with the theme, "Scene Changes: Performing, Teaching, and Work…
Originally, this article was conceived as a section of an extended piece called, "Dramaturgs Reflect on the ATHE Dramaturgy Focus Group (DRFG)," with recollections about the DRFG from both f…
Actor James McAvoy is much in demand: in the BBC's His Dark Materials he is busy saving a parallel world, while in the poetic universe of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac he i…
The split is clear upon first glance. He wears muddy jeans and rain boots, while she dons pristine khakis and purple Crocs. His space boasts shoots of wild rice, while hers stands testam…
Chicago combines passion, adultery, crime, murder, greed, corruption, violence, exploitation and betrayal, set in the city of Chicago in the jazz era and making it one of the most shocking p…
With a background in theatrical lighting, Chris Medvitz is a current Partner and Principal at Lightswitch, a lighting and visual design company whose focus is to offer artistic solutions to …
Under the direction of Kevin Loring in collaboration with artistic associate Lindsay Lachance, the new Indigenous theatre department at the NAC is the first-ever, created in Canada, to show …
