Contemporary dance can be difficult to understand, or even define, because it’s rooted in experimentation. It’s versatile, conceptual, and often unpredictable, but what’s certain is it requires incredible dancing skill.…
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Theatre
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For Lebanon’s largely religious, family-oriented society the alarming rate of divorce in the country is a sensitive issue. Whether you blame the economy, social pressures or simply a global trend,…
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Art is for everyone – this sentiment seems to echo more and more across Lebanon’s art scene and is the central vision of the Association for the Promotion and Exhibition…
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Lebanon’s theater darling Nada Abou Farhat is pregnant in real life and on stage. When she revealed she was expecting to her longtime friend and theater veteran Gabriel Yammine a…
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Once a theatrically rich nation where performance art flourished, Lebanon today is floundering – and it’s not Lebanon alone. “We have competition,” says Monnot Theater’s Ziad Halwani, and he doesn’t…
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“Masrah Al Jarima” will make you laugh and wonder why you don’t go to the theatre more often. The witty, spot-on comedy (and tragedy) by veteran Lebanese actress and director…
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Sometimes life so eerily imitates art that you question the authenticity of the production. Coming out of Al Medina Theatre after watching ‘The Battle Scene’, audience members exchanged glances punctuated by question…
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One of the delights no theater enthusiast would ever miss on a trip to London or New York is a West End or Broadway musical. This performance, which mingles the…
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After 65 shows in two theaters in front of a total of 14,500 audience members, the adaptation of David Ives’ play “Venus in Fur” by Lina Khoury and Gabriel Yammine,…
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In April 2013, Lebanese opera and theater fans were given the rare opportunity to interact with American opera and theater director Peter Sellars, he of the gravity defying hair and…