A less poetic but more accurate title for Mona Mansour’s quasi-metatheatrical play “We Swim, We Talk, We Go to War”…
The title “Love, Bombs & Apples” doesn’t convey the scope of the modern-day, global landscape that London playwright Hassan explores,…
In his new, metatheatrical comedy “Autobiography of a Terrorist,” New York-based playwright Saïd Sayrafiezadeh aims to link the personal and…
Egyptian-American playwright Yussef El Guindi’s 2008 satirical comedy-drama “Our Enemies: Lively Scenes of Love & Combat” is more relevant now…
In a historic meeting of two cultures in 1963, the Duke Ellington Orchestra played three concerts in Iran. Now two…
There’s a quietly eloquent moment in Mona Mansour’s 90-minute Palestinian family drama from 2011, “Urge for Going,” currently in a…
Political intrigue and romance – during the 1979 Iranian revolution and 27 years later in a hospital room in Palo…
