Theater and Dance
Shostakovich’s The Nose finds its way to the opera stage
By Fred Mazelis, April 6, 2010
Shostakovich’s first opera, The Nose, recently received its premiere production at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, more than 80 years after it first appeared.
Sweeping cuts in German cultural facilities
By Sybille Fuchs, March 23, 2010
The huge cuts being made in the sphere of culture in Germany are an indication of the bourgeois establishment’s low regard for the arts.
The Power of Yes: A serious indictment of capitalism
David Hare at the National Theatre
By Paul Stuart, December 22, 2009
In the wake of the ongoing crisis, the British theatre has sought in a number of pieces to address the meltdown of the financial system.
A dramatic account of the death of Jean Charles de Menezes
Stockwell, by Kieron Barry
By Paul Bond, September 29, 2009
A review of Kieron Barry’s play Stockwell: The Inquest into the Death of Jean Charles de Menezes.
At the Globe Theatre in London
A New World: A Life of Thomas Paine by Trevor Griffiths
By Ann Talbot, September 18, 2009
Trevor Griffiths’ A New World: A Life of Thomas Paine brings to the stage an 18th century figure who made a significant contribution to both the American and French revolutions and whose writings ha...
Ruined: Congo is setting for prize-winning play on wartime violence against women
By Fred Mazelis, June 19, 2009
Ruined, by Lynn Nottage, is set in a Congolese brothel during the civil war that has raged for most of the past decade in that impoverished African nation. It has strengths, but also serious problems.
“England People” deeply flawed
England People Very Nice, by Richard Bean, at the National Theatre, London
By Paul Bond, May 29, 2009
Richard Bean’s latest play England People Very Nice fails both artistically and politically.
The Idea Man at the Elephant Theatre Company in Los Angeles
By Richard Adams, May 18, 2009
Kevin King’s The Idea Man, now receiving its world premiere with the Elephant Theatre Company in Hollywood, CA, leaps exuberantly into the gulf between labor and management.
Lions roaring in a well
Vince Melocchi’s Lions at the Pacific Resident Theatre
By Richard Adams, April 1, 2009
Lions is set in a neighborhood tavern in Detroit. The play treats the lives of a group of working class football fans, as their team disappoints them once again, and their economic and personal prospe...
Toronto the Good: It needs to push harder in some very uncomfortable places
By Jack Miller, February 18, 2009
Andrew Moodie’s new play Toronto the Good opened at Toronto’s Factory Theatre on January 31, offering audiences an intelligent, entertaining and lively evening of theatre.
London’s Globe Theatre to stage Trevor Griffiths’ A New World: A Life of Thomas Paine
By Ann Talbot, February 18, 2009
Academy Award winning writer Trevor Griffiths speaks about his new play A New World: A Life of Thomas Paine, which will be produced at London’s Globe Theatre this summer. It is an adaptation of his ...
“Good theatre makes you ask questions”
An interview with Khalifa Natour and Ofira Henig
By Richard Phillips, November 24, 2008
In Spitting Distance, a one-man show performed by Khalifa Natour and directed by Ofira Henig, was recently staged at the Sydney Opera House. Henig and Natour discussed the production with Richard Phil...
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