Theater and Dance
Insightful, engaging modern dance
Doug Varone and Dancers at the Joyce Theater, New York City
By Andrea Peters, January 11, 2000
Doug Varone and Dancers began their season at the Joyce Theater in New York City this week with a remarkably ambitious program, including three New York and two world premieres. The company, bearing t...
A metaphor for post-Soviet Russia
Review of Alexey Slapovsky's The Little Cherry Orchard
By Kaye Tucker, December 8, 1999
The Little Cherry Orchard by Alexey Slapovsky, translated by Anatoly Frusin and Alex Menglet, directed by Anatoly Frusin, at Company B Belvoir in Sydney, Australia until December 19
Theatre Review:
Who's Afraid of the Working Class?—the Melbourne Workers Theatre
Stories from behind the statistics
By Kaye Tucker, October 1, 1999
The Melbourne Workers Theatre's award-winning production— Who's Afraid of the Working Class?—recently played at the Belvoir Street Theatre in Sydney. The play was first performed at the Vi...
A time "out of joint": Peter Zadek's Hamlet at the Berlin Schaubühne
By Stefan Steinberg, September 30, 1999
One of Germany's leading theatre directors, Peter Zadek, has brought together many members of the Hamlet cast from his famous 1977 Bochum production and restaged Shakespeare's play at the Berlin Schau...
An inarticulate hope
Look Back in Anger by John Osborne
Playing at the Royal National Theatre, London through September 18
By Paul Bond, September 14, 1999
The first production of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger in 1956 provoked a major controversy. There were those, like the Observer newspaper's influential critic Kenneth Tynan, who saw it as the firs...
An indictment of fascism and Zionism
A fitting tribute to a man of principle
Perdition by Jim Allen premiered at the Gate Theatre, London
By Paul Bond, July 13, 1999
Twelve years after its premiere was dramatically cancelled, Jim Allen's play Perdition has finally reached the stage. The Gate Theatre hosted the production, which opened shortly before Allen's tragic...
A powerful theatrical presentation of an outstanding piece of literature
Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz, performed at the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin
By Stefan Steinberg, June 8, 1999
“The human essence is no abstraction inherent in each single individual. In its reality it is the ensemble of the social relations. “ Karl Marx, Sixth Thesis on Feuerbach.
A Russian Winter's Tale
By Harvey Thompson, June 4, 1999
William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale performed at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, England by the Maly Drama Theatre of St. Petersburg. Directed by Declan Donnellan. Designed by Nick Ormerod. Trans...
The Parsons Dance Company: Luminescent theatricality or hodgepodge?
By Andrea Peters, June 2, 1999
The Parsons Dance Company, currently nearing the end of a performance series at the Joyce Theater in New York City, is one of the leading companies in the world of mainstream contemporary modern dance...
"Bottom's Dream," or, remembrance of things to come
A Midsummer Night's Dream, based on the play by William Shakespeare, directed by Michael Hoffman
By David Walsh, May 31, 1999
Shakespeare apparently wrote the play in the mid-1590s, when he was thirty or so, during the last decade of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. It has been suggested, though not proven, that the piece was...
Dancemaker: A Tribute to Paul Taylor
A documentary directed and produced by Matthew Diamond
By Andrea Peters, March 16, 1999
The recent documentary film Dancemaker, featuring the work of Paul Taylor and his company, provides an important, if limited, window into the creative life of one of modern dance's most accomplished c...
The Thang Long Water Puppet Troupe of Hanoi
A glimpse of the cultural life and times of ancient Vietnam
By Richard Phillips, February 5, 1999
The Thang Long Water Puppet Troupe of Hanoi, which performs the age-old craft of water puppetry or mua roi nuoc, has just ended a successful season at the Royal Botanical Gardens, part of the annual S...
