Karen Malpede's plays scream "Pay Attention." Thus I titled my 2001 New York Times article on I Will Bear Witness, her play based on the war diaries of Victor Klemperer, and the same is t…
Amanda Levie is the founder and director of No Peeking Theatre, a New York-based theatre company that takes away the aspect of sight to create an equal and new approach to theatre. Levie aim…
The play My Father " His Exalted Highness was a nuanced depiction of the concerns of a ruler on the cusp of history. For about 75 minutes, the stage at Ravindra Bharathi became the Nazir Bag…
"We are women who do what must be done" so says the cigarette-puffing, mahjong-addicted great-grandmother in Jeff Ho's one-man play Trace, now at the National Arts Centre. The fallout of doi…
Almighty Voice and his Wife, a play written by Daniel David Moses in 1991, was recently staged in Toronto. It is the first Indigenous play on the stage of Soulpepper Theatre, Toronto's large…
Artists from three different and fairly distant parts of the world " Australia, Brazil and Switzerland " employ movement, dance and gestures on the screen to represent their countries at the…
Reader, if " like me " you're a relatively recent transplant to Pittsburgh, the presence of the term "yinz" in the title of anything might immediately raise a question about your audience-sh…
An emerging sidelight at the annual Prithvi Theatre Festival is its selection of fringe offerings that are usually showcased at Prithvi House, a first-floor assembly space in the residential…
I'm a thirty-four-year-old straight woman who grew up in the suburbs with an older brother. That means I've spent a lot of time watching dudes play video games. I thought those days were beh…
This Duchess of Malfi is a cool one. It is so cool that it has lost its gripping temper and, with it, some of its fire. A surprising drop in temperature, because director Rebecca Frecknall h…
I'm crouching along with a group of strangers, waiting for Anna to arrive. I have never met Anna but I know I'm her friend. This is her surprise party. We are at her house, in the dark, expe…
If you're a culture vulture and are interested in TV and theater, most likely, you know a lot about Krysta Rodriguez. She can be found at the MCC Theater in a play by Theresa Rebeck called S…
Alfredo Arias has been based in France for many decades now, but he is an increasingly frequent visitor to the Argentine stage"recent works seen in Buenos Aires include Tatuaje (English titl…
In recent years there has been a resurgence of progressive adaptations of Chekhov's realist classic, "Three Sisters." Yet none can match the forceful adaptation of Inua Ellam's sweltering re…
In The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy (2016), Magda Romanska argues that if the twentieth century can be called the century of the auteur-director, then the twenty-first century will b…
A performance for teenage schoolchildren of Diego Casado Rubio's Millones de Segundos (English title: Millions of Seconds) at Teatro El Extranjero offered an opportunity to catch one of Buen…
First of all, don't be put off by the pompous, academic title. Thomas Ostermeier's extraordinary History of Violence, adapted from a much-discussed 2016 novel by the 27-year-old French li…
"You into words?" Jamie Lloyd's magnificent treatment of Cyrano de Bergerac very much is. Refracted through Lloyd's modestly masterful staging, Martin Crimp's vigorous, insightful adaptation…
Rhinoceros, the official production commemorating the Market Theatre Lab's 30th-anniversary celebrations, and performed by the supremely talented Kwasha! Theatre Company is a piece worthy of…
Anubha Fatehpuria will act out a miscellany of women characters, spanning more than a century in Pieces. Once again, in recent weeks, the free-thinking Virginia Woolf provides grist for the …
At the center of the large wooden barn is a makeshift altar, wrapped in gauze and adorned in flowers, candles, and partially constructed mannequins. A voice fills the broad, earthy space, wa…
It is autumn in Madrid, Spain. A small group of theatergoers has arrived at  Zapadores, a new art space. It is on the outskirts, close to a railway, far from any inhabited places apart fr…
Sorak Gemilang Entertainment (SGE) brings a world-class exhibition by art collective teamLab to Indonesia this year, presenting Jakarta's biggest interactive, creative experience teamLab Fut…
Istanbouli Theater and the Tiro Association for Arts announced the program of the second version of the Lebanese International Theater Festival (Tiro International Art Festival) from the 7th…
From Reunion Island to India, this play explores freedom and history. A young boy from Nepal snatched away from his home in the Himalayas, now lives in a big slum in India. He is all alone i…