Celebrating art-as-commerce: what happens when immersive theatre gets popular
New production Queen of the Night – backed by the same producer as Punchdrunk’s wildy popular immersive theatre experience…
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The New York Review Abroad: A breathless journey around disparate worlds
Tara Isabella Burton reviews a a hefty and often harrowing compendium of The New York Review’s foreign reportage over…
ByReview: Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812
A musical adaptation of War and Peace could easily have become sprawlingly shallow. But director Rachel Chavkin and writer-composer…
ByThe Muteli Monologues: feminism and activism converge in Georgian theatre
The first complete Georgian-language production of Eve Ensler's feminist performance piece The Vagina Monologues caused substantial controversy. Tara Isabella…
ByLewis Carroll’s ill-fated obsession with the prepubescent Alice
Review: Then She Fell.
ByAlan Cumming’s Macbeth: Dark desires on Broadway
The promise of a one-man Macbeth, particularly as performed by such a winkingly self-aware performer as Alan Cumming, is…
ByImmersive theatre and the anxiety of choice
Yes, you might discover a secret orgy in a hidden room or go on a desperate quest for a…
ByPlayfulness and pragmatism collide as Georgian theatre comes to London
As a biting satire of President Saakashvili makes its English language debut, Tara Isabella Burton explores the state of…
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