Joshua Openheimer's "The Look of Silence" explores the nearly forgotten Indonesian genocide.
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Valley of Astonishment’ by Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne
Stories of synaesthesia inspired by Oliver Sacks, a celebrated mnemonist, and an ancient Sufi poem.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The McGowan Trilogy’ by Seamus Scanlon
This taut and suspenseful character play concerns a youth, a 'charming bad boy' with murderous urges, who lends his services to the IRA.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Embers’ by Samuel Beckett
'Embers' succeeds a good deal more dramatically than one might have expected from a radio play transferred to the stage.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Bauer’ by Lauren Gunderson
Rudolph Bauer's work was not shown for many years where it should have been shown, in the Guggenheim Museum. How was this modernist painter and influential Abstract Expressionist overlooked and silenced? The mystery is revealed in Lauren Gunderson's fine play in which she re-imagines Hilla von Rebay visiting with her lover Bauer long after his marriage to his maid Louise and von Rebay's release from the Guggenheim Museum project.
Read More »Interview with Prem John, the Reluctant Actor from Singapore
Acting was never something I dreamt of ever!
Read More »Hot Chocolate Theatre, Singapore’s First Repertory Theatre, to Open with ‘The Arsonists’
Singapore has never had a true repertory theatre before.
Read More »Interview with Kalki Koechlin – from Bollywood to ‘Trivial Disasters’ in Singapore
I am myself on a special journey and taking everything as it comes. Everyday is a surprise.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘Bedbugs!!!’ the Musical by Paul Leschen and Fred Sauter
This deliciously campy show has so much frenzied, blood-sucking energy the small ArcLight theater can hardly contain it.
Read More »Interview: Actor Saul Reichlin on the Holocaust-Themed ‘The Good and the True’ and his Sholem Aleichem Dramatizations
Saul Reichlin has also toured 35 cities with his dramatizations of stories by Sholom Aleichem.
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