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Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A concentration of all imaginable issues burdening the conflicted Georgians. Emerging from all parts of the country, the problems eventually travel all the way to Rustaveli Avenue […]

The show begins as a mini-spectacle: from the sound system, a loud scream and a roaring horror march of brass instruments and bass drums. Greenish spotlights shift in time to the beat, as though conducted by the […]

London spectators interested in Ibsen had a special treat offered them this September, two of Ibsen’s most popular works revived in highly innovative productions at London’s two most heavily supported the […]

The theme of the seventy-third Avignon festival was Odysseys, from classical references to contemporary interpretations, from Kevin Keiss and Maëlle Poésy’s free adaptation of Virgil’s Aeneid, focusing on Aenea […]

London’s theatrical scene at the end of 2018 seemed centered on a response to the year’s many #MeToo revelations and newspaper headlines. I saw over a dozen plays in three weeks, while taking a group of stu […]