Robert Coates: The Greatest Bad Actor
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 30, 2025
In the glittering world of 19th-century theatre, where talent was prized and ridicule could end a career, one man defied convention and beca...
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Nazi Amphitheaters
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 28, 2021
Near the summit of a large wooded hill overlooking the town of Heidelberg in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, stands an open-air theater called a...
The Theater That Shakespeare Stole
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 19, 2018
On a cold, snowy December night in 1598, about a dozen men armed with swords, daggers and axes quietly broke into a recently vacated theater...
The Spectacular Sets of Early 20th Century New York Theater
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 13, 2017
Many theatrical set designers today follow the maxim of “less is more”, but in the old days when theaters had to compete with moving picture...
4 Ancient Roman Amphitheatres Still in Use Today
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 12, 2015
Two thousand years ago, when the mighty Roman emperors ruled over a significant part of the world, they built large public stadium-like ente...
Archipelago Cinema: Thailand’s Floating Movie Theater
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 6, 2012
German architect Ole Scheeren designed and installed a truly awe-inspiring floating movie theater for the inaugural edition of a new film f...
