Theatre

Free for All ‘Twelfth Night’ embraces vision of original director Taichman

In the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s unglamorous rehearsal space on Eighth Street SE, it’s just dawning on Duke Orsino (Gregory Wooddell) that his servant Cesario is in fact the lovely Viola (Christina Pumariega) in male disguise. After the two confused couples, including Viola’s presumed-dead twin… Twelfth Night - Arts - Shakespeare - Literature - World Literature

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Burung Merak: The Poetry of Rendra

WS Rendra, who died a year ago aged 73, was Indonesia’s major contemporary poet.

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Angola: ‘Monumental Atelier’ Gives Awards to National Artists

The “Monumental Atelier Association” has awarded trophies and certificates to national artists in literature, music, dance, theatre and arts, for the role they have played to promote the Angolan culture.

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Angola: ‘Monumental Atelier’ Gives Awards to National Artists

The “Monumental Atelier Association” has awarded trophies and certificates to national artists in literature, music, dance, theatre and arts, for the role they have played to promote the Angolan culture.

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Angola: ‘Monumental Atelier’ Gives Awards to National Artists

Tim Burton to develop film version of Monsterpocalypse

Director of Sweeney Todd and Alice in Wonderland plans Transformers-style adaptation of the board game He tackled musical theatre in Sweeney Todd and classic children’s literature in Alice in Wonderland. Now, for his next move, director Tim Burton is turning to the humble board game, developing a big-budget fantasy film that features monsters more fearsome than the Jabberwocky and more murderous …

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Are plays proper literature? | David Jays

The collaborative and transient nature of theatre clearly spooks the gatekeepers of ‘real literature’. It shouldn’t Long before I became a dedicated follower of theatre, I read plays. I’d come home from the library with handfuls of blue-spined Methuen modern classics, black-spined Penguin volumes of Ibsen and Chekhov, note-spattered editions of Jacobean tragedy and Restoration drama.

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Lost love makes opera a classic

“‘Eugene Onegin’ is the perfect opera.” So says director Kevin Newbury, who makes a pretty good case for his assertion. “Onegin,” the second offering of Opera Theatre of St. Louis’ 2010 festival season, is based on Alexander Pushkin’s verse novel, a beloved classic of Russian literature.

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Literature causes problems in ‘The Metal Children’

An author can’t control the way people react to their work. Such is the dilemma faced by a depressed writer of young adult fiction in the new Adam Rapp drama, “The Metal Children,” now performing off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre in a surreal, murky but intelligent production.

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A culture of exchange or elitism?

Perched on the stage of Al Hakawati, Jerusalem’s largest theatre, four authors from the Palestine Festival of Literature shared turns reading excerpts from their texts.

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Review: Crime and Punishment

The Stork Theatre’s production of Crime and Punishment (in fact, its entire oeuvre) is a reversal of the question that has recently so excited some of us in the theatre world - to wit, whether plays are proper literature. Rather, it raises the question of whether literature can be proper theatre. To be honest, as someone who prefers to think of categories as guides rather than as lead-lined boxes

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