Theater
Community Reading: The Great Gatsby and Gatz
We invite readers to leave comments and continue our Community Reading Event devoted to The Great Gatsby and Gatz.
Gatz: Making a Novel a Communal Event
How the Elevator Repair Service’s Gatzhelps realize that the novel, like theater, can be a deeply communal form.
An Article about a Play about a Play
Gabrielle Flores writes a review that’s not really a review, about a play that wasn’t really a play but a performance piece about how to think about a play.
Weird History: Headspace 1.0
In 2013, four NYUAD students began interviewing their classmates about their experiences in Abu Dhabi. As the starting point for the interviews, they used seven questions: Why are you scared? Why do you feel repressed? Why do you feel liberated? Why do you regret...
Reimagining a Classic
How Organs, Tissues, and Candy Games explored the ways in which the human body can be appropriated for purposes beyond its initial, native intent.
Becoming a Monster
Monsters do not only reside under the childhood bed or closet, nor is their habitat constrained to horror films and nightmares. Monsters, creatures that elicit a shiver from even the most apathetic intellectual, walk among us, live inside us, because we are the...
Video-Game Puppetry and the Sieges of Rome
Video game characters used as puppets to tell stories from the classical tradition? Kevin Riordan reports on Eddie Kim’s machinima theater productions
Global Shakespeare Blogging
Professor Katherine Rowe writes about the Festival as it unfolds.
Theater in Abu Dhabi
Dreaming Abu Dhabi theater through A Dream Play.
The Global Shakespeare Student Festival
Student troupes from Egypt, the UAE, and the US explore the dramatic legacy of the Bard at NYU Abu Dhabi.
Shyam Benegal: Portrait of the Artist
The final article in our series about the legendary Indian film-maker Shyam Benegal
Zubeidaa: A “discerning experience” in Shyam Benegal’s Masterclass
Shyam Benegal gives a master class about one of his classic films, “Zubeidaa”
Shakespeare at the Olympics
Reflections on the Bard’s presence at the opening ceremony.
Theater Mitu’s Dream Play: A Preview
Rubén Polendo’s company casts new light — literally — on Strindberg’s play.
Kalaripayattu and Mohiniattum
Studying movement, dance, and performance in Kerala, India.
Remembering CHAOS
A look back at Theater Mitu’s CHAOS.
An Interview with Rubén Polendo, Part II
The director gives us an inside-view of Theater Mitu’s production of Death of a Salesman.
An Interview with Rubén Polendo, Part I
Rubén Polendo talks about his work with Theater Mitu.