Apocalypse Avignon
The World Cup meets the collapse Western civilization.
Category Archives: Global
Istanbul Looking West: Art or Politics?
A Turkish festival mirrors the nation’s cultural crisis.
Building ‘Fences’ in Beijing
August Wilson’s Pittsburgh, and the black American experience, translated into Chinese and transposed to China.
Brecht Our Contemporary: Berlin in Crisis
A new production of ‘Good Woman of Sezuan’ offers cautionary parallels for post-reunification Germany.
An Uber-Musical From Robert Wilson
‘The Black Rider’ testifies to his great love for theatre in all its manifestations. Can audiences relax and enjoy it?
Nuoxi, Uixi, and Today’s Chinese Experimental Theatre
Masked ritual folk theatre is becoming more prevalent in the country’s interior provinces.
The Trouble With Lyubimov
As director of Moscow’s avant-garde Taganka Theatre, he became ‘the theatrical conscience of his nation.’ Now in exile, his future lies in the West.
Notes From Europe
Issues of identity animate new stagings of Jean Genet’s ‘Les Negres’ and Joshua Sobol ‘Ghetto.’
From Broadway to Gorky Street (Or, What Would Lenin Say?)
American drama on the Soviet stage.
The Road From Nigeria
Wole Soyinka gives voice to Africa’s painful history.
