By Randy Gener[1] Christine Evans’s You Are Dead. You Are Here. isn’t so much a war play (or an anti-war play or even a post-war play, for that matter) but a war-torn work of restorative narrative. Set in the present
By Lissa Tyler Renaud[1] There is something quintessentially American about theatre producer Alicia Hoge Adams. Pioneering, inventive, jack [or jane]-of-all-trades, visionary, expansive, intrepid. There is a restlessness. In the fine arts, she paints and sculpts; in the theatre, she is
By Tiago Bartolomeu Costa[1] Over the past 25 years the Chekhov International Theatre Festival in Moscow has been responsible for showing to Russian audiences the best productions from theatre masters from around the world. Valéry Shadrin is a proud man
By Randy Gener[1] New York director Victor Maog recently took over as Artistic Director of Second Generation (2g), the 17-year-old company that supports emerging Asian-American voices. In addition to freelancing on plays and musicals, Maog founded a seasonal outfit called
By Randy Gener[1] Every four years since 1967, curatorial design teams from around the world mount national exhibitions in the city center of Prague. This quadrennial process has been taking place since the advent of PQ, more formally known as
By Randy Gener[1] Lately politics seems to have overtaken art in the nexus of the Clyde Fitch Report (CFR). On the morning of September 11, 2013 the day after the New York City mayoral primary elections took place, CFR looks
Par Irène Sadowska-Guillon[1] ABSTRACT Iranian actress, author and director in the Iranian scene, forbidden from working in Iran by the government for her religious convictions, Shabman Tolouei has been exiled since 2005, living in France. Her theatre revisits the Iranian
By Randy Gener[1] Anyone seriously interested in French-language Quebec plays needs to know about Suzie Bastien. Born in Montreal, the author of 10 plays and a member of Centre des auteurs dramatiques, Bastien writes some of the most intense, heart-stopping