Theatre in Belarus: We Will Never Be the Same
Even the country’s apolitical state theatres are joining the countrywide protest against the power grab by the Putin-backed dictator Lukashenko.
All Stories About Belarus Free Theatre
Notes on Shakespeare 400: Too Much of a Bard Thing
Barbara Gaines’s Chicago Shakespeare Theater staged an ambitious yearlong program in 2016. I tried to match that ambition as an attendee, with mixed success.
A Shakespearean World’s Fair in the Windy City
International and local companies converge at Chicago Shakespeare Theater for the quadricentennial of the playwright’s death.
Belarus Free Theatre: a Miraculous 10 Years, Feted With a 10-Show ‘Revolution’
A two-week festival showed this unique theatre-in-exile at its best, with stunning tableaux, riveting storytelling, and a push for change in and beyond their repressed homeland.
It’s All About the Execution in Belarus Free Theatre’s New ‘Trash Cuisine’
Hounded from their home country but staying together via Skype, Minsk’s toughest troupe is back in New York with another harrowing but mesmerizing piece.
Working Against the Clampdown
Activist watchdogs offer support to artists while sorting out fact from rumor, propaganda and the netherworld between.
