Anaïs Nin au Miroir, written by Agnès Desarthe and directed by Élise Vigier,[1] was another production at the 2022 festival that sets off to investigate how an artist and an intellectual are made and function. Set in the backstage of a theatre cabaret, it focused on the enigmatic identity of Anaïs Nin (1903-1977), the French-Cuban writer and poet, known as one of the first female writers to specialize in erotic fiction.A theatre company...

While marquee productions have featured star turns from Ian McKellen and Alan Cumming, smaller shows deal with contemporary life.EDINBURGH — Some big names have been leaving their mark this month in Edinburgh, where both the International Festival and the bustling theatrical grab bag that is the Fringe are in full swing after a slimmed-down pandemic lineup last year. Ian McKellen and Alan Cumming have proved...

Jodi Picoult and the Team Behind Between the Lines Reflect on the Power of Female Voices in TheaterBetween the Lines, based on the novel by Picoult and her daughter Samantha, is now running at the Tony Kiser Theater.When bestselling author Jodi Picoult set out to adapt her YA novel Between the Lines into a musical, she was trying to locate two unicorns.At least that's how she described her search to find a female...

I arrived at the 2022 Avignon Theatre Festival seeking emotional rejuvenation after two years of COVID related isolation, working on screens, and deprived of live encounters in theatre; but also shattered by the war in Ukraine and realization that the world I have known, specifically in Europe, has dramatically changed. I expected that what I would see at the festival would inevitably speak back to these global disasters, albeit very different...

Milosh Andonovski (1989) was born in Kumanovo, North Macedonia. He graduated Comparative literature in 2012 at the Faculty of Philology “Blazhe Koneski” at “Sts. Cyril and Methodius” University.  In 2014 he obtained his MSc degree in Cultural studies at the Institute for Macedonian literature by conducting a research in which 31 professional actors took part, titled as The influence of cultural and psychological processes on an actor...

‘Romeo & Juliet’ Review: Older, Gentler Star-Crossed LoversWith age-blind casting at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, two actors who have been married for 38 years play the teenage leads.GARRISON, N.Y. — A romance and a love story are two different things. In art, we’re not great at differentiating.Take “Romeo and Juliet,” a corpse-ridden romantic tragedy routinely mistaken for a tale of deepest love, even though the lovers are...