Within ten seconds, I am in love. Three men have taken off their shoes at the side of a white, open space, selected a music track from an iPad on a stand, smiled at each other, and stepped o…
Today, we call it soft power. During the Cold War it was more like success at any cost"and by any means necessary. In the 1970s, both the United States and the Soviet Union used sport, as we…
Fairview is a scorching minefield that looks like a green meadow. At long last, London audiences can enter the beguiling terrain of Jackie Sibblies Drury's 2018 play in a flawless Young Vic …
There is no shortage of plays about troupes of traveling actors eking out a living on the road. To this collection of works now comes veteran Argentine dramatist Mauricio Kartun's La vis cÃ…
If you love theatre, namely the experimental kind, I highly recommend a trip to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival at least once in your life. For a couple weeks in August, the Scottish city play…
'Tis the season for Christmas pantos across the UK, and there could not be a more ideal opener to this mad tradition than Lyric Hammersmith's joyously woke Cinderella. Written by Jude Christ…
In 2013 Ignacio Bartolone created a buzz with his first play, Piedra sentada, Pata corrida (English title: Sitting Stone, Running Foot). He has gone on to establish himself as a key figure i…
Within ten seconds, I am in love. Three men have taken off their shoes at the side of a white, open space, selected a music track from an iPad on a stand, smiled at each other, and stepped o…
Saul: It is always your turn. Every time you are on that court, it is always your turn. Wen Chang: It was such an American way of thinking. (The Great Leap) Pasadena Playhouse colla…
Denis O'Hare and Lisa Peterson created Homer's Coat, a theatre company that explores ancient literature for new plays. Both the well-known actor O'Hare and the director Peterson developed…
New Nexus Formed After several projects which look into ways to expand performing art's notion of 'spectatorship' beyond the predominance of the visual, Vera Tussing's new project at the Kaa…
Mr. D'Alcala:Â If the time ever comes when your kind can walk a city street in daylight with nothing to fear from the people "Â Frank McCloud: The time has come Mr. D'Alcala, it's here.…
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 in the world, in his small, stifling room, confined and miserable. He t…
'Tis the season for holiday-inspired and joy-infused entertainment and Ruskin Group Theatre Co. in Santa Monica, CA has done us all a tremendous favor by delivering the world premiere of Bad…
Lived experiences provide a foundation for the creation of theatre which is deeply personal, and far-reaching, allowing all types of audiences some ability to connect with what is onstage. I…
The legendary Habba Khatoun comes to life in Purva Naresh's Zoon, a play that attempts to give ordinary Kashmiris a voice, says Vikram Phukan. Circa 1989, as the errant flames of an inchoate…
Naturalism is both the best thing about British theatre, being democratic and comprehensible by all, and the worst, being boringly unimaginative and frankly banal. The hegemony of this aesth…
Just as the first signs of autumn begin to take over the glorious summer (shorter sunsets, occasional winds, gradually falling temperature), August in Helsinki offers a treasure of cultural …
Romina Paula is perhaps best known outside Argentina for her work as an actress in seminal films such as Santiago Mitre's El Estudiante (English title: The Student, 2011), Mariano Llinás'…
Some news stories have a very long half-life. Their power to shock does not diminish; they continue to radiate pain. One such is the gang rape and murder that happened in South Delhi in D…
Scenic designer Sean Fanning recently designed a beautiful and provocative set for Jack Thorne's 2015 play The Solid Life of Sugar Water, produced by Deaf West Theatre. This was Sean's first…
Adapting novels for the stage is a tricky business. When the novel in question happens to be wildly popular and epically proportioned, the challenges faced by the adapter can escalate withou…
Actor Miriam Margolyes is a phenomenon. Not only has this Dickensian specialist starred in high-profile shows both here and in Australia, a country whose citizenship she took up in 2013, but…
Sawitri Theatre, based out of Mississauga, Ontario, recently paid a tribute to the acclaimed Indian playwright Chinu Modi. Being one of the flag-bearers of South Asian theatre in Canada, the…
For most people in Hong Kong, the name Lyudmila Pavlichenko certainly does not ring a bell. She is not a fictional character but a historical figure who was one of the very first female snip…