How can improv – improvisational theater – help us to embrace life? Today we will take a journey into never-ending storytelling, acceptance and real life – and whatever they have in common following. Our Man still remembers those sweet nights lying on bed curling along his grandma eagerly waiting for …
What would Halloween be without the traditional Thespians Anonymous Halloween Party? A lot less colorful for sure… Photographs: Nihan Tanışer and Ritabrata Dutta Text: Nihan Tanışer Layout: Erna Bodström Nihan Tanışer loves autumn, dressing up, sweets and horror; no wonder Halloween is probably her favorite time of the year. …
Women wearing striped prison robes cry “All hail Comrade Beria! Hurrah!” as the iron prison bars close with a loud clang cutting off the stage from the audience. This is the end of Journey into the Whirlwind, a play recounting the soul-crushing horror of political repressions that took place in …
There is a first time for everything. And first times can sure be nerve wrecking, especially when they require putting something of yourself out there for people to evaluate and judge. Like, uh, I don’t know, let’s say when you decide to direct a play you wrote. Which is exactly …
“Fantastic!” was the first comment I got when I asked a couple of random audience members about the Shakespeare in the Park performance they had just seen. And no; they were not family members or friends of the cast. In fact, this was the first time they had even heard …
