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Movie Review: Theatre Svoboda, a documentary film by Jakub Hejna
THEATRE SVOBODA (DIVADLO SVOBODA) Czech Republic, 2011 98 Min, Color DIRECTOR: Jakub Hejna PRODUCER: Jiří Konečný SCREENPLAY: Jakub Hejna, Barbora Příhodová DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Jiří Chod CAST...
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Theater Review: “Unnatural Acts” by the Plastic Theater at Classic Stage...
NEW YORK CITY: On Sunday, July 31, Unnatural Acts will complete an incredible run at Classic Stage Company (CSC) where this exemplary show has been extended three times. Most Off-Broadway shows in New...
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Theater Review: In “Ghost Light,” a son confronts historical ghosts, family...
“For theatre is, in whatever revisionist, futurist, or self-dissolving form — or in the most proleptic desire to forget the theatre — a function of remembrance. Where memory is, theatre is.”—Herbert...
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Report from Sarajevo: An inspiring international festival rises above a...
SARAJEVO: For 51 almost uninterrupted years, Sarajevo has hosted a grand, hardy and poignantly international theatre festival in the Balkans, called the International Theater Festival MESS Sarajevo....
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“Macbeth After Shakespeare” (Slovenia/Croatia) muscles its way into brilliance
NEW YORK CITY: Flashing red police lights streak across the stage’s dark expanse. The air is thick with the smell of danger and testosterone and murder and evil. Seven lean young tough guys, mostly...
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My picks for the world’s best theater of 2011
NEW YORK CITY: Once I had committed to the idea that Being Harold Pinter, Flipzoids, Anything Goes and Cries and Whispers — all of which had premiered prior to 2011 — truly belong in the company of...
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Transvestite cabaret blossoms in “Gardenia,” a dance-theater work from Belgium
Performers of "Gardenia" | Design by Michael BonfiglioRow 1: Rudy Suwyns, Vanessa Van Durme, Danilo PovoloRow 2: Dirk Van Vaerenbergh, Andrea De Laet, Griet DebackerRow 3: Hendrik Lebon, Richard...
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Performance review: Watch a storefront story from a New York sidewalk in this...
The Window A free site-specific performance Created and directed by Ana Mărgineanu “i was just thinking . . .” Romanian Cultural Institute 573-577 Third Ave. at 38th St. April 2-8, free, 7:30-10:00 pm...
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Performance review | Seeing the Romanian Cultural Institute’s “Window”...
UPDATE: The weather in New York is beautiful, so why not? WINDOW 2 extends June 5-17 in front of ICRNY building. This Romanian-American time-based installation, written by Saviana Stanescu, strolls...
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Performance review (NSFW) | Italy’s Ricci/Forte serves up queer fantasia in...
Ricci/Forte’s “Macadamia Nut Brittle” | Photo by Danielle Virginia Antonelli NEW YORK CITY: Curb your desire to sit close. As attractive as the four young Italian performers of Macadamia Nut Brittle...
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Not a performance review | French choreographer David Wampach spoofs John...
NEW YORK CITY: Full Disclosure #1: I served drinks in between Auto and Batterie, the two parts of an entertaining evening of dance by French choreographer David Wampach. How could I refuse? In between...
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Performance review | Is “Pâquerette” penetrating, or merely a dance with...
NEW YORK CITY | It’s difficult to talk about Pâquerette without going into graphic terms. François Chaignaud, from France, and Cecilia Bengolea, from Argentina, sit on the floor, as audience members...
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Performance review | Diverse City Theater’s nervy revival of Lee Blessing’s...
Diverse City Theater Company‘s production of TWO ROOMS by Lee Blessing | Photos by Carlo Damocles NEW YORK CITY | Why director Jamie Richards does not push the envelope further in her commendable...
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RECOMMENDATION | See film screening of American version of German “Trust” at...
WASHINGTON, D.C. | Tonight, July 8, a young D.C. troupe will screen a film that documents that making of its new dance/theatre project Trust by the German writer/director Falk Richter. The courageous...
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