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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…
Collaborators Billy Langa and Mahlatsi Mokgonyana better known as 'Theatre Duo' are what one could describe without much hesitation as the very embodiment of creativity, talent, and passion.…
Vessel. 26-27 October 2019. OzAsia Festival, Adelaide, Australia. Now in its twelfth year, Adelaide's OzAsia Festival is Australia's only annual festival that focuses on contemporary w…
Most theater productions will never become available again, no matter how great the quality, because of copyright and technical reasons. However, theater critics around the world are leaving…
Cooper Robb, an immensely knowledgeable and prolific American theater critic, who recently passed away, left behind many articles, especially in Backstage Magazine and TheaterMania, filled t…
The playwright "I spring from ministers, murderers, rebels, addicts, closeted queens, soldiers, singers, and blue-collar mill workers." This confession opens playwright Gabriel Jason Dean's …
Ibrahim Miari, son of a Palestinian Muslim father and Jewish Israeli mother, grew up in Israel, became an actor, a playwright, a Sufi dancer, and an educator who now lives in the US. His one…
