‘An American in Paris,’ Back From an Out-of-Town Tryout in—Where Else?—Paris
How a Gershwin classic went from the concert hall to the cinema, and from Paris’s Théâtre du Châtelet to Broadway.
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How a Gershwin classic went from the concert hall to the cinema, and from Paris’s Théâtre du Châtelet to Broadway.
Language and culture, not race, are the faultlines in a new adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy by Norwegian director Stein Winge.
Ecuadorian theatre broke away from European conventions in the 1960s. Today’s artists are still venturing outside the theatre walls to engage audiences directly.
How a bi-national production of ‘Antigone’ took shape in remote Brzezinka, where Grotowkski’s animating spirit still holds sway.
The ensemble of Cutting Ball’s ‘Antigone’ ranged widely in age and experience, but their intensive work in Brzezinka fused them into an ensemble.
Mounting and touring an acclaimed new work about the Armenian genocide, ‘Armine, Sister,’ isn’t even the biggest controversy swirling around the Polish director.
As he gears up for another festival January, the downtown impresario weighs in on a busy and changing scene.
In excerpts from speeches newly translated by Zack Rogow and Renée Morel, the celebrated author of ‘Gigi’ tells how she found her identity as a writer in the music halls of Paris.
Patricia Ariza and Joanna Sherman lead companies in war zones where female bodies and liberty are among the worst casualties.
The authors’ presence was elusive yet unmistakable, in two wildly different ways, in two pieces seen at the recent Philadelphia FringeArts fest.