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The farcical premise of Rajiv Joseph's play Archduke"just opened at the Roundabout's Laura Pels Theatre"is that the young men who sparked World War I by assassinating the Archduke Franz Ferd…
With a depressingly vacuous, celebrity-circus Waiting for Godot sucking up so much oxygen on Broadway, it's a delight and relief to see Samuel Beckett produced at the Irish Arts Center by gi…
Something flitters among the green leaves of bramble and the brown leaves of a previous autumn. There is movement, there is sound " the hum of traffic and a labor of breathing. Hands are see…
Before the audience of the play 3sisters, with their eyes wide open, a music box, the girls on film, the Yugo-wave, the empty space, and the Chekhov of the future are embodied. The direction…
Thatcher, and the image of Thatcher's Britain, continues to cast a long shadow over contemporary culture. So it's hardly a surprise that the most audience-pleasing moment in playwright Jack …
I went to Caroline Guiela Nguyen's Lacrima at BAM with great eagerness and curiosity. This was a major new work by the only woman with serious clout in the French theater (she is artistic di…
In Romanian culture, a vital coming-of-age moment for every teenager is their eighteenth birthday, marking, almost physically, the starting point of adulthood. Luceafărul Theatre's Intern…
In 2023, Malaysian actor Michelle Yeoh won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance in Everything Everywhere All at Once. Some reactions praised her as "the first Asian actress" to achieve…
The Queen of Versailles. A New Musical will officially open on Broadway, at the St. James Theatre on November 9th, after several weeks of previews. The show is based on the life stories of D…
Sein oder nicht sein is a play by Nick Whitby (b.1963), premiered on Broadway in 2008, and first presented in Germany at Deutsches Theater Berlin in 2009. It is based on the 1942 film of the…
Weird scenes inside the farmhouse; weird scenes in Northern Ireland; weird scenes of the 1980s. Meghan Tyler's Crocodile Fever at the Arcola Theatre is a breath-takingly eccentric and wonder…
This six-hour production of Hamlet took Shakespeare's play as the starting and end point, in the German version by Heiner Müller, with additional material from Müller's Hamletmaschine, fur…
The Flowers of Srebrenica should be impossible to stage. Irish academic Aidan Hehir's book, a narrative account of visiting Srebrenica (now a Memorial Centre), where the UN left thousands of…
The Royal Court, Britain's premiere new writing venue, celebrates its platinum anniversary next year " yes, it's been 70 years since 1956's Look Back in Anger. In anticipation, the theatre i…
The Terrence McNally/Stephen Flaherty/Lynn Ahrens musical Ragtime is not the subtlest theater contraption. Premiered on Broadway in 1998, it's a big, galumphing machine with very big things …
In All Right. Good Night., German docu-theater artist Helgard Haug turns loss into a language. The work interlaces two stories of disappearance " the mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH37…
Absurd as it may seem, Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, a demanding play about existential despair and cosmic futility first performed in 1953, has just opened on Broadway for the fifth t…
When I was four years old, I asked my parents for piano lessons. We always had a piano in the house. There was a lot of big band music played on the stereo with the occasional Broadway cast …
The small district of Schnoor in the northern German city of Bremen, consisting of some 100 houses, has had a long history. First mentioned in the 13th century, the oldest parts of extant bu…
Broken Britain has a big problem with youth. About a million of those aged 16 to 24 are NEETs (not in education, employment or training), some 13 per cent of this age group. Many working-cla…
"By the term theatre we do not only mean its expressive linguistic side, but also the cultural, social, and organisational aspect of the phenomenon… among many people, theatrical plays, in…
The Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theater (CIFET) has long been a vital platform for the boundary-pushing theatrical voices in the Arab world, and beyond. Recently, debates h…
Perhaps it's an indicator of the feebleness of new writing after the pandemic that so many of the current highly hyped plays are 1990s and 2000s revivals " success in the past is, it is hope…
With minimal décor and symbolism in every gesture, The Mutt " an adaptation of Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov at IATI Theater " blends experimental staging with unvarnished performance…
Collective interview with Amy Sze (Theatre maker and arts producer, London, UK-Hong Kong), Mia Efremova/Mia Volt (playwright, Å tip, R.N.Macedonia), and Tree Kwok (theatre director/dramatu…
