William Kentridge, who conceived and directed the visiting production of "The Magic Flute" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Monday night, is a black-and-white man.
Detailed historical accuracy in setting and costume first attracted attention in Charles Kean's visiting production of Shakespeare's King John (1846).
( Zinoman) 'HEDDA GABLER' In the title role of Ibsen's destructively dissatisfied heroine, Cate Blanchett is giving roughly a dozen of the liveliest performances to be seen this year, all at the same time, in the Sydney Theater Company's visiting production.
In this visiting production from the Royal Dramatic Theater of Sweden, which runs through Sunday, you are never allowed to forget the affinities that bind these two fabled monarchs of such seemingly different stripes.
"Metamorphoses," Mary Zimmerman's stirring story-theater version of tales by Ovid, transferred smoothly to Broadway, and there was that socko visiting production of Sophocles' "Antigone" from the National Theater of Greece.
(Brantley) 'HEDDA GABLER' In the title role of Ibsen's destructively dissatisfied heroine, Cate Blanchett is giving roughly a dozen of the liveliest performances to be seen this year, all at the same time, in the Sydney Theater Company's visiting production.
But there is little question that as the heroine of Frank Wedekind's "Lulu," in the vivacious visiting production from the Almeida Theater of London, Ms. Friel is standing on a pair of extremely lethal weapons.
I was recently reminded of the theatrical power of the kiss when I saw the Sydney Theater Company's superb visiting production of "Uncle Vanya" at the Kennedy Center in Washington.
Best visiting production - War Horse, National Theatre, The Lowry.
There were also two awards for the Royal Shakespeare Company's Julius Caesar - best visiting production and best actor in a visiting production for Ray Fearon.
