Archive Drama & Theatre etc.

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  Katie Day

  Aug 7, 2015
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  Katie Day

  

  True Lies

  The New Yorker - Hilton Als

  In “Ghost Stories,” now in revival, presumed innocents are anything but. It’s all just another illusion. Illusions generated a lot of talk in postwar American theatre. The truth is that no amount of reality could compete with the Holocaust. So there was a turning inward. In 1947, Tennessee …

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  Manuel Garrido Freire

  

  Sense and Sensibility Makes World Premiere at Chicago Shakespeare Theater | TheaterMania

  theatermania.com - Chicago, Illinois

  Sense and Sensibility, based on Jane Austen's classic novel, begins tonight at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. In typical Austen fashion, the story …

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  Manuel Garrido Freire

  

  To beam or not to beam? How live broadcasts are changing theatre

  The Guardian - Lyn Gardner

  Screenings from the National Theatre and RSC serve a vast nationwide audience – but what is their effect on regional and touring productions? The audience for a single live broadcast of a Shakespeare production by the RSC is about the same as the audience for an entire year at the Royal Shakespeare …

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  Katie Day

  

  Your 10 favourite dance scenes

  BBC Culture - Arwa Haider

  It's International Dance Day and today we celebrate the art of dance in all its forms. The initiative was introduced in 1982 by the International Dance Council (part of UNESCO) with the purpose of attracting the attention of the wider public and creating new dance lovers. We asked our readers to …

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  Katie Day

  

  The Play That Took Me Inside My Autistic Son's Head

  The Atlantic - James Sullivan

  For 16 years we’ve been locked outside my firstborn son’s head. Sam is a boy, fast becoming a man, whose sense of the world around him is defined by his own fixed point on the autism spectrum. He can rarely conceive what’s expected of him in social situations, and by that I mean a setting as …