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Teatro Biondo Stabile in Palermo has a full-house. To the right, left and up in the surrounding galleries are a mixture of different generations: ones who were there thirty years ago and one…
James Sheldon's Reparations is a new play about racial grievance, guilt, and retribution in America that, oddly enough, is both very smart and completely sincere. What I mean by that is t…
The Black History Museum….According to the United States of America, Smoke & Mirrors Collaborative's new show at HERE Arts Center, combines, interrogates, reimagines, in short, chops &…
"What can we do to break down the myths and stereotypes of Thanksgiving in forty-five minutes with three people?…" " Logan (The Thanksgiving Play) Geffen Playhouse has kicked off the holid…
Love seems to have preoccupied the planning team of the 2019/2020 season: it rushes on stage in so many variations and thematic lines that it is difficult to choose which one to favor. On th…
Hannah Moscovitch has a rare gift for portraying sincere, nuanced relationships. To watch her characters on stage is to live their moments of pain, joy, and intimacy along with them. In her …
Founded in 2012 by two breakdancers, Souhail Marchiche and Mehdi Meghari, Compagnie Dyptik is based in St. Etienne, France. They've been developing choreographic works based upon hip hop val…
From Darkness is a story about the aftermath of sorry business " Aboriginal rituals that are observed during a period of mourning. It looks at how, on the first anniversary of a loved one's …
Bedlam Theatre, a New York City Company, was founded in 2012 by the actress Andrus Nichols and the actor/director Eric Tucker. Their first show, George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan, was perform…
Piyush Mishra's Gagan Damama Bajyo centers around the young freedom fighter's ideology of universal brotherhood, anarchism, atheism and fierce patriotism. The shenanigans of the past week ha…
Augustine's Dream  was presented in July 2019 at the Providence Fringe by  AnomalousCo. An interdisciplinary theater collective, the troupe develops new productions working wi…
What does it mean to be an "ordinary" Australian in anatomizing and globalized world economy? Anthem brings together the writers behind the celebrated 1998 Melbourne Workers' Theatre product…
The Akamba people of East Africa have a saying: "The visitor has the best tobacco." But what happens when the hosts are anxious to sample the visitor's tobacco but, after giving them a few w…
Adam Rapp is a polarizing playwright. After bursting onto the scene in 2001 with Nocturne " a long, moving monologue by a man who accidentally kills his sister and then reinvents himself as …
One of the great cultural divides is that between religion and science. Of course, as novels such as Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy amply prove, it's easier to speculate about t…
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a popular source of musical adaptions. National Theatre has mounted a production, Wonder.land, in which Alice is trapped in the world of o…
The Magic Flute by the Isango Ensemble at ArtsEmerson When the Isango Ensemble plays"on only eight marimbas"the opening strains of Mozart's Overture for their adaptation of The Magic Flute, …
The winner of the 2019 Papatango New Writing Prize, Shook by Samuel Bailey offers a glimpse into an unexpected corner of the criminal justice system. It is set in a classroom, but not in a s…
It's June 18, 1983. You're a waitress in St. Louis who's all but given up her dreams of achieving renown, or at least impact, as a poet. You're in an unsatisfying relationship and a stimulat…
An essay by Nora Amin that traces the presence of shadow theatre within the modern and contemporary Egyptian theatrical practices. From the analysis of the imaginative value of shadow, to th…
In Murray Mednick's "Mayakovsky and Stalin", which made its New York premiere at the Cherry Lane Theatre on October 20th, the life of an avant-garde socialist poet intertwines with the ruthl…
In order to analyze the concepts "skill", "artistry" and "virtuosity" within the performing arts, I need to unpack their meanings. If they imply spending a long time with a practice or task …
During summer 2019, Villa Bardini in Florence was the home of A Passi Di Danza. Isadora Duncan e le Arti Figurative in Italia Tra Ottocento e Avanguardia, an exhibition dedicated to the Amer…
Canada is built upon a core tenet of otherness; its populace is built largely upon the mosaicked lives of genocidal settlers, and refugees in search of better. Old Stock is presented by Hali…
That the hallway beside the theatre is filled to its breaking point is a good sign: artists, critics, adults, and teenagers alike revel in a common ground of theatre-going, of festivity, and…
