Theater and Dance
To speak the truth without being afraid: My Name Is Rachel Corrie on stage in New York
By Sandy English, January 20, 2007
My Name Is Rachel Corrie by Alan Rickman and Katherine Vinter, directed by Alan Rickman, at the Minetta Lane Theatre, New York City, October 15—December 30, 2006.
Lillian Groag’s The Magic Fire at the Shaw Festival: an unusually perceptive piece
By Joanne Laurier, September 2, 2006
The Magic Fire, by Lillian Groag, directed by Jackie Maxwell, at the Shaw Festival, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, June 11 to October 8
Fifty years since the death of German playwright Bertolt Brecht
The Threepenny Opera and St. Joan of the Stockyards on stage in Berlin
By Stefan Steinberg, August 31, 2006
Official Germany has long had an ambiguous attitude toward one of the country’s most gifted poets and dramatists, Bertolt Brecht, who died fifty years ago this month. During the period of the Co...
A passionate exposure of the David Hicks case, with one glaring omission
Honour Bound, co-designed and directed by Nigel Jamieson
By Richard Phillips, August 23, 2006
Honour Bound, a 90-minute multimedia performance co-designed and directed by Nigel Jamieson at the Sydney Opera House until September 3 and Melbourne’s Malthouse Theatre from September 15 until ...
Powerful truths, limited aims: No Child by the Epic Theater Center in New York
By Sandy English, June 26, 2006
No Child, written and performed by Nilaja Sun, directed by Hal Brooks, produced by the Epic Theater Center at the Samuel Beckett Theater, New York City
A history lesson from Britain fails to shed much light
By Kaye Tucker and Peter Daniels, May 16, 2006
The History Boys first premiered in London in 2004 and won a host of awards. It has since traveled to Australia and the US. Reviewers from the WSWS saw the play in Sydney and in its current production...
Stage adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984: Puppets of the police state
By Richard Adams and Ramon Valle, March 13, 2006
1984, world premiere, based on the novel by George Orwell; adapted for the stage by Michael Gene Sullivan; directed by Tim Robbins for the Actors’ Gang at the Ivy Station, Culver City, California, t...
Everything about this performance felt right
Chronicles—a lamentation by the Teatre Piesn Kizla
By Kaye Tucker, March 10, 2006
The Polish theatre company Teatr Piesn Kozla, (translated as The Song of the Goat Theatre Company) recently performed its award winning production of Chronicles—a lamentation, as part of the int...
Dreiser’s classic An American Tragedy is brought to the New York opera stage
By Fred Mazelis, January 19, 2006
The premiere of a new American opera is a relatively unusual occurrence. By one count, there have been about 200 such premieres in the past 15 years, but this compares with tens of thousands of perfor...
British playwright Harold Pinter awarded Nobel Prize in literature
By Barry Grey, October 14, 2005
Harold Pinter, widely viewed as the most influential and accomplished playwright in postwar Britain, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature Thursday. The announcement by the Swedish Academy came as...
Orientalism exploded
Pera Palas, written by Sinan Unel, directed by Michael Michetti
By Richard Adams, August 4, 2005
Pera Palas, written by Sinan Unel, directed by Michael Michetti. Co-produced by the Antaeus Company and The Theatre at Boston Court. Boston Court Theatre, Pasadena, California. West Coast premiere. Ju...
Living with the fear factor
Death by Survival, written by Elizabeth Ruiz, directed by Dori Salois
By Richard Adams and Ramón Valle, June 22, 2005
Death by Survival, written by Elizabeth Ruiz, directed by Dori Salois. World premiere presented by Vantage Theatre and Centro Cultural de la Raza at the Centro Cultural de la Raza in San Diego, Califo...
