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4 June 2008
A turn toward history we need: Paris Commune
at the Public Theater in New York
"Something in the Commune has an impact on culture
as a whole"
An interview with J. Michael Friedman, co-writer of Paris
Commune
21 February 2008
Trevor Griffiths' These are the Times: a Life of
Thomas Paine
A great film yet to be made
An interview with playwright Trevor Griffiths
14 February 2008
Trying to understand
The Death of Margaret Thatcher--a
play by Tom Green
11 December 2007
Hotel Obsino: inner-city
poverty and despair
To explore another level of society
Hotel Obsino writer Adam Broinowski
speaks with WSWS
19 November 2007
Letters
on Brian Wilson
24 October 2007
An Evening with Brian Wilson
The Palace Theatre in Manchester, England--September 23, 2007
22 October 2007
The Kingdom: Spinning reality
any way one wants
21 April 2007
Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia
20 January 2007
To speak the truth without being afraid: My Name
Is Rachel Corrie on stage in New York
2 September 2006
Lillian Groag's The Magic Fire at the Shaw
Festival: an unusually perceptive piece
31 August 2006
Fifty years since the death of German playwright Bertolt
Brecht
The Threepenny Opera and St. Joan
of the Stockyards on stage in Berlin
23 August 2006
A passionate exposure of the David Hicks case, with
one glaring omission
Honour Bound, co-designed and directed by Nigel Jamieson
12 July 2006
New
York theatre to present Rachel Corrie play
26 June 2006
Powerful truths, limited aims: No Child by
the Epic Theater Center in New York
16 May 2006
A
history lesson from Britain fails to shed much light
13 March 2006
Stage adaptation of George Orwell's 1984: Puppets
of the police state
10 March 2006
Everything about this performance felt right Chronicles--a
lamentation by the Teatre Piesn Kizla
19 Janaury 2006
Dreiser's classic An American Tragedy is brought
to the New York opera stage
29 December 2005
Harold
Pinter's artistic achievement
14 October 2005
British
playwright Harold Pinter awarded Nobel Prize in literature
4 August 2005
Orientalism exploded
Pera Palas, written by Sinan Unel, directed by Michael
Michetti
23 June 2005
"You can speak your truth more easily in the
theatre"
An interview with Australian playwright Hannie Rayson
22 June 2005
Living with the fear factor
Death by Survival, written by Elizabeth Ruiz, directed
by Dori Salois
Interview with Elizabeth Ruiz, author of Death
by Survival
8 June 2005
An absurdist play fails to withstand the test of time
The Chairs, by Eugene Ionesco, directed by Benedict Andrews
2 June 2005
Fatal stumble in the jungle
The People's Temple, written and directed by Leigh Fondakowski,
at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre
11 May 2005
A comment on Brecht in Los Angeles Mother Courage
and Her Children, by Bertolt Brecht, produced by The Antaeus
Company
6 May 2005
Iraq: the dirty story
The Sand Storm, written by Sean Huze, directed by David
Fofi
5 May 2005
An imaginative and courageous political exposure
Two Brothers, written by Hannie Rayson, directed by Simon
Phillips and designed by Stephen Curtis
9 December 2004
Not taken from life
Pugilist Specialist, by Adriano Shaplin, production by
The Riot Group
24 November 2004
A bold attempt, with more to come
Canada House, a two-act play, by J. Karol Korczynski
12 November 2004
Schiller's
Don Carlos: the "light and warmth" of a timeless play
28 August 2004
The family business and its discontents
Rutherford and Son
7 August 2004
An attempt to grasp the whole: One World, a
play by Robert Litz, opens in Hollywood
3 July 2004
A new dramatization of Orwell's Homage to Catalonia
Homage to Catalonia on
stage: an interview with writer Pablo Ley and director Josep
Galindo
22 March 2004
A good deal to chew, and not all of it edible: Brecht
and Mother Courage
9 March 2004
"McKinsey Is Coming"
A feeble warning to the German business and political establishment
by playwright Rolf Hochhuth
11 September 2003
A victim of state terror in the US
Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary
America: A Drama in 30 Scenes by Stephen Sewell
24 June 2003
Ben
Jonson's Volpone: black comedy from the dawn of the modern era
20 May 2003
Politics
and the theatre: two plays in Toronto
Interview with Dean Gabourie, director of Awake
and Sing!
12 May 2003
Episodes from the class struggle in Britain
Just Before the Rain and Coal Not Dole
8 May 2003
An evening with Nederlands Dans Theatre II
The challenges confronting contemporary modern dance
31 March 2003
Over 200 artists perform at London Concert for
Peace
15 March 2003
Actors stage Aristophanes' Lysistrata to protest
war against Iraq
21 November 2002
The element of social tragedy in King Lear
King Lear by William Shakespeare, at the Stratford Festival
of Canada, directed by Jonathan Miller
16 October 2002
A serious attempt to encourage Sri Lankan opera
Sonduru Varnadasi (The Alluring Courtesan), directed by
Premasiri Khemadasa, libretto by Lucien Bulathsinghala
6 March 2002
Trisha Brown Dance Company: Just scratching the surface
The legacy of Postmodernism in contemporary dance
26 October 2001
Remembered horrors of a religious education
The Christian Brothers, at The Playhouse, Sydney Opera
House until November 3
10 October 2001
A gentle appeal for justice
Aliwa, by Dallas Winmar
Directed by Neil Armfield at the Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney
12 September 2001
A failed attempt at "relevance"
The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov, directed by Andrew
Benedict
10 September 2001
Pappa Tarahumara, a Japanese contemporary dance company
Frustrated resignation
15 August 2001
Expressions Dance Company
A one-dimensional exploration of narcissism and love
8 August 2001
Morning Sacrifice
Australian play from the 1930s strikes a contemporary chord
4 August 2001
The Lingalayam Dance Company
Exploring human expression but struggling with a theme
31 May 2001
Artistic integrity at the "big end of town"
Up for Grabs by David Williamson
28 April 2001
Angry young man going nowhere
Thomas Ostermeier's adaptation of Büchner's classic Danton's
Death at the Berlin Schaubühne
24 October 2000
Insights into the faded hopes of the 60s generation:
Life After George
Sydney Theatre Company, Wharf 1 Theatre--through December 9
26 September 2000
Call for an Anti-Hero: A review of Tabletop,
a play by Rob Ackerman
2 September 2000
"The raw dream of Oedipus"
Seneca's Oedipus ,directed by Barrie Kosky, Sydney Theatre
Company
25 July 2000
The tragedy of the "stolen generation"
Stolen, directed by Wesley Enoch, written by Jane Harrison
26 June 2000
Posing some of the right questions
Einar Schleef 's Verratenes Volk (A People Betrayed) at
the Deutschen Theater in Berlin
17 June 2000
After 70 years in operation
Financial problems close the Martha Graham dance center in New
York City
27 May 2000
John
Gielgud: A life in the theatre (1904-2000)
25 May 2000
Marat/Sade at the Berliner
Ensemble
3 April 2000
The lasting significance of The Trojan Women
29 January 2000
A piece which fails to convince in any respect
The Brecht File, a new play at the Berliner Ensemble
14 January 2000
A reminder of how we all begin
The Small Poppies,
Company B, Belvoir Street, Sydney
Until February 20
11 January 2000
Insightful, engaging modern dance
Doug Varone and Dancers at the Joyce Theater, New York City
8 December 1999
A metaphor for post-Soviet Russia
Review of Alexey Slapovsky's The Little Cherry Orchard
23 October 1999
The
Australian Ballet in New York City
21 October 1999
Mayakovsky's
The Bedbug at the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin: a missed opportunity
1 October 1999
Theatre Review: Who's Afraid of the Working Class?--the
Melbourne Workers Theatre
Stories from behind the statistics
30 September 1999
A time "out of joint": Peter Zadek's Hamlet
at the Berlin Schaubühne
14 September 1999
An inarticulate hope
Look Back in Anger by John Osborne
Playing at the Royal National Theatre, London through September
18
13 July 1999
An indictment of fascism and Zionism
A fitting tribute to a man of principle:
Perdition, by Jim Allen premiered at the Gate Theatre,
London
8 June 1999
A powerful theatrical presentation of an outstanding
piece of literature
Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz, performed
at the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin
4 June 1999
A
Russian Winter's Tale
2 June 1999
The
Parsons Dance Company: Luminescent theatricality or hodgepodge?
31 May 1999
"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
16 March 1999
DanceMaker: A Tribute to
Paul Taylor
A documentary directed and produced by Matthew Diamond
5 February 1999
The Thang Long Water Puppet Troupe of Hanoi
A glimpse of the cultural life and times of ancient Vietnam
Richard Phillips interviews water puppet director:
"A unique form of art"
4 August 1998
Euripides' Medea: A timeless drama
11 July 1998
Copenhagen: a new play
by Michael Frayn
Science, politics and morality
11 June 1998
Experiencing Porgy and Bess
Arnold
Schoenberg on Gershwin
10 Jun 1998
Terrence McNally's Corpus Christi
The theater and its corporate sponsors
15 May 1998
"The Herbal Bed"--a play by Peter Whelan
In the shadow of Shakespeare
30 March 1998
Theater review:
A Woman of No Importance
What Wilde has to say to us moderns
28 March 1998
Doug
Varone and certain trends in contemporary modern dance |
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