Wajdi Mouawad’s “Littoral”: Searching for Peace Through the Devastation of War
Sejong Center for the Performing Arts (artistic director, Sun-Woong Koh) staged the play Littoral...
Read MorePosted by Walter Byongsok Chon | 22nd Jul 2024 | Canada, Lebanon, Review, South Korea, Theatre and Politics
Sejong Center for the Performing Arts (artistic director, Sun-Woong Koh) staged the play Littoral...
Read MorePosted by Hansol Oh | 21st Mar 2024 | Musical Theatre, Review, South Korea
It is 1930s Kyeongseong (what Seoul was called during the Japanese occupation), and the colonial...
Read MorePosted by Soo Ryon Yoon | 26th Nov 2023 | Review, South Korea, Theatre and Dance
In this day and age, the word data evokes preconceived images of algorithms, artificial...
Read MorePosted by Walter Byongsok Chon | 9th Sep 2023 | Review, South Korea, Theatre and Dance
Writing Using is the most recent work by Ahn Aesoon, one of the most renowned contemporary dancers...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 16th Aug 2023 | Edinburgh 2023, Review, Scotland, South Korea
There are multiple ways to admire this production of a Greek classic, directed by Singaporean Ong...
Read MorePosted by Walter Byongsok Chon | 4th Jun 2023 | Musical Theatre, New York, Review, South Korea, Transcultural Collaborations
KPOP is a new musical, with a book by Jason Kim and music by Helen Park and Max Vernon. It...
Read MorePosted by Clare Cioffero | 3rd Jan 2023 | New York, Playwriting, Puppetry, South Korea, United States of America
The simplicity of the set was enriched with exquisite lighting design, by Oliver Wason, depicting the starry heavens above, exploding bombs, flocks of butterflies, even projections of characters.
Read MorePosted by Kee-Yoon Nahm | 9th Sep 2022 | Interview, Playwriting, South Korea, Theatre and Politics, Translation
To read Part 1 of this interview, click here. Nahm: Let’s talk now about Texas Aunt. I said...
Read MorePosted by Kee-Yoon Nahm | 8th Sep 2022 | Interview, Playwriting, South Korea, Theatre and Politics, Translation
Yun Mi Hyun is a playwright based in South Korea. After writing fiction and poetry in her early...
Read MorePosted by Philippa Wehle | 1st Jun 2022 | Musical Theatre, New York, Review, South Korea, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
The Legend of The Waitress & The Robber, a new musical theater piece by Renee Philippi, a...
Read MorePosted by Walter Byongsok Chon | 21st May 2022 | Interview, New York, South Korea, Transcultural Collaborations, United States of America
The Legend of The Waitress & The Robber is a collaboration between the Korean theatre...
Read MorePosted by Gowri S | 17th Jul 2021 | Review, South Korea, Theatre for Young Audiences
Junk Clown, a Korean play for children, brings the concept of recycling to the table through mime....
Read MorePosted by Alexa Alice Joubin | 12th Jun 2021 | Adaptation, Essay, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, South Korea
During the AAPI (Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders) heritage month, let us explore the...
Read MorePosted by Hansol Oh | 13th Jan 2021 | Musical Theatre, Review, South Korea, Theatre and Science
Marie Curie, whose image as an unsmiling scientist wearing a high-necked, black dress has been...
Read MorePosted by Walter Byongsok Chon | 1st Jan 2021 | Interview, Playwriting, South Korea
The Korean theatre company The Nanhee premiered its new production Mimaji!, written and directed...
Read MorePosted by Walter Byongsok Chon | 25th Jun 2020 | Adaptation, Interview, South Korea
The Korean theatre company ETS, which is an acronym for Eye To Soul, staged Charles Mee’s Big Love...
Read MorePosted by Eylül Fidan Akıncı | 7th Apr 2020 | Essay, Puppetry, South Korea, Transmedia
The history of puppetry is full of supernatural bodies on stage that dramatically or subtextually...
Read MorePosted by Rathsaran Sireekan | 27th Oct 2019 | Review, South Korea, Theatre and Gender
The Political Self of Beauty South Korean artist Eunkyung Jeong’s interdisciplinary work at...
Read MorePosted by Rathsaran Sireekan | 23rd Sep 2019 | Belgium, Festivals, Review, South Korea, Theatre and Politics
The political self of beauty South Korean artist Eunkyung Jeong’s interdisciplinary work at...
Read MorePosted by Kee-Yoon Nahm | 15th Sep 2019 | Adaptation, Interview, Playwriting, South Korea, Theatre and Politics, Translation
To read Part 1 of this interview, click here. TRANSLATION AND ADAPTATION For the Illinois State...
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