A Window

A Window

By Edward Bond A room in a high rise flat. The window overlooks the city street. A woman reads a story in a newspaper. It shatters her world. Her hopes for herself and the child she is carrying turn to fear. She tries to explain to her partner. He will not listen: “That kid’s a curse on me. ...

Benedum Center, Pittsburgh's premiere theater

Benedum Center, Pittsburgh&#039s premiere theater

Built in 1927, then the Stanley Theater, Pittsburgh’s Benedum Center is Pittsburgh’s premier stage for live theater. Holding 2,885 people the Benedum is also Pittsburgh’s largest theater, beating out Heinz Hall by about two hundred seats.

'As You Like It' at Shakespeare Festival/LA

&#039As You Like It&#039 at Shakespeare Festival/LA

Of all of Shakespeare's comedies, "As You Like It" might just be the most difficult to follow. The comedy of romance and mistaken identity contains cross-dressing, character doubling and a fly-by gallery of supporting clowns whose paths intersect with a velocity that can make your ...

In Praise of a Polish Theater Master

In Praise of a Polish Theater Master

WROCLAW, POLAND — Richard Schechner and Philip Arnoult, longstanding members of American theater’s avant-garde, chatted on the crowded staircase of The Centre for Study of Jerzy Grotowski’s Work and for Cultural and Theatrical Research as they waited in line for the final performance of Teatr ...

Apollinaire Theatre Company to present three absurdist comedies

Apollinaire Theatre Company to present three absurdist comedies

Chelsea’s Apollinaire Theatre Company will be staging classic works from the Theater of the Absurd: The Wedding on the Eiffel Tower by Jean Cocteau, Jack, or The Submission by Eugene Ionesco, and Humulus the Mute by Jean Anouilh. The performances are free (yes, free!) and will be performed at Mary ...

Arcadia

Arcadia

Arcadia, Tom Stoppard’s 'richest, most ravishing comedy' (NY Times), is a dazzling, witty masterpiece of misunderstanding and quest for knowledge, resonating across centuries.

ALL MY SONS

ALL MY SONS

All My Sons was the first great success of Arthur Miller's supremely influential career and the play that launched him as one of the leading dramatists of the twentieth century.

Foot on the breakthrough time

Foot on the breakthrough time

On the "foot", directed by Anna Augustynowicz Coast Theater waited over a year since the implementation of the performance was moved from the previous season to the present. Austere visual spectacle, despite several great scenes, however, leaves a sense of large niedosytu.

Holland Festival

Holland Festival

The European festival season has begun and the Holland Festival is one that shouldn’t be missed