August Strindberg’s “Miss Julie,” a classic of early Naturalistic theater written in 1888, is set in the kitchen of a count’s mansion on a wild Feast Day in Sweden. “Queen of Basel” by young New ...

Watching the National Theatre’s production of Bulgakov’s The White Guard a few weeks ago, I was reminded of an episode in Book Two of Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Natasha attends the opera and finds it ...

Cutting Ball, an experimental theater company in downtown San Francisco, is offering a 5-evening intensive designed to develop an appreciation for a performance practice that is conversant in theater ...

Swedish poet, novelist, and dramatist Par Lagerkvist arrived at just the right moment to despise naturalism. He was born in 1891, 14 years after Ibsen’s seminal naturalistic drama Pillars of Society ...

Don’t be fooled by the title. “Miss Julie,” which The Rogue Theatre opens this weekend, sounds like a sweet, genteel story. It is not. The August Strindberg play boils with class wars, sex, power ...

Book by Thomas Meehan. Music by Charles Strouse. Lyrics by Martin Charnin. Directed by Glynis Leyshon. A Theatre Under the Stars production. At Malkin Bowl on Wednesday, July 22. Continues on ...

So, earlier this month, provocative white US playwright Bruce Norris withdrew the rights to perform his play about racial tension, Clybourne Park, from Berlin’s Deutsches Theater. He did so because he ...