An Expansive and Permeating Work Embracing Death and Humanity: A Paradox for Our Times: Gregory Maqoma – “Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s Bolero”
In darkness, a quiet sobbing, acutely intimate in the vastness of the Barbican main stage. Now...
by Miranda Laurence | Nov 23, 2019 | Dance Umbrella 2019, Review, South Africa, Theatre and Dance, United Kingdom
In darkness, a quiet sobbing, acutely intimate in the vastness of the Barbican main stage. Now...
by Alexander Nderitu | Nov 11, 2019 | Africa, Kenya, News, Transcultural Collaborations
by James Montaño | Nov 9, 2019 | Adaptation, Boston, Review, South Africa, Theatre and Opera, United States of America
by Gowri S | Dec 3, 2019 | Devised Theatre, India, News, Theatre and Dance
A young boy from Nepal snatched away from his home in the Himalayas, now lives in a big slum in...
by Ahram Online | Nov 27, 2019 | News, Puppetry, Syria, Theatre for Young Audiences
by Lisa Marie Bowler | Dec 8, 2019 | Festivals, Review, Theatre and Dance, United Kingdom
Within ten seconds, I am in love. Three men have taken off their shoes at the side of a white,...
by Mert Dilek | Dec 8, 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
by Mert Dilek | Dec 6, 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom
by Aleks Sierz | Dec 8, 2019 | Documentary Theatre, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom, United States of America
Today, we call it soft power. During the Cold War it was more like success at any cost—and by any...
by Christine Deitner | Dec 5, 2019 | Los Angeles, Review, United States of America
by Christine Deitner | Dec 3, 2019 | Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Review, Theatre and Film, United States of America
by Maria Delgado | Dec 7, 2019 | Argentina, Review
There is no shortage of plays about troupes of traveling actors eking out a living on the road. To...
by Maria Delgado | Nov 30, 2019 | Argentina, Review, Spain
by David O'Donnell | Nov 22, 2019 | Festivals, New Zealand, Review
TAHI Fess’s: New Zealand Festival of Solo Performance, Artistic Director: Sally Richards....
by Sandra D'urso | Nov 11, 2019 | Australia, Festivals, Review
by William Peterson | Nov 5, 2019 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Dance
by Paul Yachnin Hannah Korell | Nov 20, 2019 | Canada, Dramaturgy, Essay
Last winter, at the Studio Theatre at Ryerson University in downtown Toronto, Canadian actor...
by Michael Schweikardt | Nov 29, 2019 | Design, Interview, Los Angeles, Theatre and Disability, United States of America
Scenic designer Sean Fanning recently designed a beautiful and provocative set for Jack Thorne’s...
by Nicole Birmann Bloom | Nov 13, 2019 | France, Interview, Theatre and Dance
by Lisa Marie Bowler | Dec 8, 2019 | Festivals, Review, Theatre and Dance, United Kingdom
Within ten seconds, I am in love. Three men have taken off their shoes at the side of a white,...
by Mert Dilek | Dec 8, 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
by Natasha Lomonossoff | Nov 19, 2019 | Acting, Canada, Review
The works of modern Irish playwright Samuel Beckett, largely absurdist and tragicomic in scope,...
by Abigail Weil | Oct 20, 2019 | Acting, New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
by Kumaresh K.R. | Oct 1, 2019 | Acting, India, Review
by Takudzwa Chihambakwe | Sep 20, 2019 | Acting, Interview, Zimbabwe
by Vikram Phukan | Aug 28, 2019 | Acting, India, Review
by Michael Ka Chi Cheuk | Oct 26, 2019 | China, Directing, Interview, Taiwan
US-born, Taiwan-raised theatre director and playwright Stan Lai (Lai Sheng-chuan) has enjoyed...
by Nobuko Tanaka | Aug 1, 2019 | Adaptation, Directing, Japan, News, Thailand, Transcultural Collaborations
by Mert Dilek | Nov 26, 2019 | Dramaturgy, News, United Kingdom
Founded in 2001, the Dramaturgs’ Network is the only organization in the United Kingdom solely...
by Michael Schweikardt | Nov 29, 2019 | Design, Interview, Los Angeles, Theatre and Disability, United States of America
Scenic designer Sean Fanning recently designed a beautiful and provocative set for Jack Thorne’s...
by Abigail Weil | Sep 28, 2019 | Adaptation, Design, New York, Review, Theatre and Film, Theatre and Gender, United States of America
by Abigail Weil | Jun 19, 2019 | Czech Republic, Design, Devised Theatre, News, Prague Quadrennial 2019
by David Stevenson | Nov 4, 2019 | Essay, Management, United Kingdom
This series of articles was commissioned in preparation for the IETM Plenary Meeting in Rijeka,...
by Goran Tomka | Nov 1, 2019 | Belgium, Essay, Management
by Takudzwa Chihambakwe | Oct 8, 2019 | Management, News, Zimbabwe
by Simon Mellor | Jun 23, 2019 | Management, News, United Kingdom
by Aleks Sierz | Dec 8, 2019 | Documentary Theatre, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom, United States of America
Today, we call it soft power. During the Cold War it was more like success at any cost—and by any...
by Anuj Kumar | Oct 12, 2019 | India, Playwriting, Review
by Emiliia Dementsova | Nov 23, 2019 | Festivals, Japan, Review, Russia, Theatre Olympics 2019
This year is a special one for the Theatre Olympics. For in it’s touring, it is comprised of two...
by Emiliia Dementsova | Oct 31, 2019 | Festivals, Germany, Review, Russia, Theatre Olympics 2019
by Juno Schwarz | Sep 7, 2019 | Edinburgh 2019, Festivals, Review, Theatre and Dance, Ukraine, United Kingdom
“There are bombardments constantly on the outskirts of Donetsk, while in central Donetsk they...
by Mert Dilek | Sep 6, 2019 | Edinburgh 2019, Festivals, Review, United Kingdom
by Mert Dilek | Sep 5, 2019 | Edinburgh 2019, Festivals, Review, United Kingdom
by Mert Dilek | Sep 1, 2019 | Edinburgh 2019, Festivals, Review, United Kingdom
by Abigail Weil | Jun 22, 2019 | Czech Republic, Festivals, Prague Quadrennial 2019, Review
The Rudolfinum is the main classical music performance hall in Prague. The house of the Czech...
by Abigail Weil | Jun 21, 2019 | Czech Republic, News, Prague Quadrennial 2019, Puppetry, Theatre for Young Audiences
by Abigail Weil | Jun 20, 2019 | Adaptation, Czech Republic, Festivals, Prague Quadrennial 2019, Theatre and Film, Transmedia
by Abigail Weil | Jun 19, 2019 | Czech Republic, Design, Devised Theatre, News, Prague Quadrennial 2019
by Abigail Weil | Jun 18, 2019 | Czech Republic, Festivals, Musical Theatre, Prague Quadrennial 2019, Review
by Christopher Harris | Jun 6, 2019 | Festivals, Germany, News, Our Stage European Festival in Dresden 2019, Participatory Theatre
For the most part, theatre can be recognized as the art of the collective. The ETC (European...
by Jane Baldwin | Dec 4, 2019 | Adaptation, Boston, Review, United States of America
Denis O’Hare and Lisa Peterson created Homer’s Coat, a theatre company that explores...
by Mert Dilek | Nov 29, 2019 | Adaptation, Italy, London, Review, United Kingdom
by Gowri S | Dec 3, 2019 | Devised Theatre, India, News, Theatre and Dance
A young boy from Nepal snatched away from his home in the Himalayas, now lives in a big slum in...
by Armando Rotondi | Nov 13, 2019 | Devised Theatre, Review, Spain
by Abigail Weil | Nov 15, 2019 | Immersive Theatre, New York, Participatory Theatre, Review
The Black History Museum….According to the United States of America, Smoke & Mirrors...
by Renu Ramanath | Nov 4, 2019 | Adaptation, Immersive Theatre, India, Review
by Kennedy Fiorella | Dec 2, 2019 | Canada, Musical Theatre, Review
Lived experiences provide a foundation for the creation of theatre which is deeply personal, and...
by John Brunner | Nov 26, 2019 | France, Germany, Review, Translation
It opens with a manic attempt to clean. The sheets, the floors, the smell of the air, everything...
by Mert Dilek | Nov 24, 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Art, Translation, United Kingdom
by Kai Tuchmann | Oct 8, 2019 | Dramaturgy, Essay, Transmedia
Creativity is mostly regarded as one of the last domains of the human species and it serves as a...
by Clement Lee | Nov 27, 2019 | Hong Kong, Interview, Transcultural Collaborations
For most people in Hong Kong, the name Lyudmila Pavlichenko certainly does not ring a bell. She is...
by Alexander Nderitu | Nov 11, 2019 | Africa, Kenya, News, Transcultural Collaborations
by Harikumar J S | Oct 30, 2019 | India, LGBTQ Theatre, News
Mazhavil Dhwani which works towards the upliftment of the members of the transgender community in...
by Tonderai Chiyindiko | Oct 6, 2019 | LGBTQ Theatre, Review, South Africa
by Abigail Weil | Oct 5, 2019 | LGBTQ Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America
by Michael Schweikardt | Nov 29, 2019 | Design, Interview, Los Angeles, Theatre and Disability, United States of America
Scenic designer Sean Fanning recently designed a beautiful and provocative set for Jack Thorne’s...
by Maria Delgado | Nov 27, 2019 | Argentina, Review, Theatre and Gender
For many in the English-speaking world, the company Piel de Lava is known primarily for its work...
by Patrick Langston | Nov 21, 2019 | Canada, Review, Theatre and Gender
by Mert Dilek | Dec 8, 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Fairview is a scorching minefield that looks like a green meadow. At long last, London audiences...
Dec 8, 2019 | Festivals, Review, Theatre and Dance, United Kingdom
Within ten seconds, I am in love. Three men have taken off their shoes at the side of a white,...
by Lisa Marie Bowler | Dec 8, 2019 | Festivals, Review, Theatre and Dance, United Kingdom
Within ten seconds, I am in love. Three men have taken off their shoes at the side of a white,...
Read Moreby Aleks Sierz | Dec 8, 2019 | Documentary Theatre, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom, United States of America
Today, we call it soft power. During the Cold War it was more like success at any cost—and by any...
Read Moreby Mert Dilek | Dec 8, 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Fairview is a scorching minefield that looks like a green meadow. At long last, London audiences...
Read Moreby Maria Delgado | Dec 7, 2019 | Argentina, Review
There is no shortage of plays about troupes of traveling actors eking out a living on the road. To...
Read Moreby Andrew Agress | Dec 7, 2019 | New York, Review, Theatre and Film, United States of America
If you love theatre, namely the experimental kind, I highly recommend a trip to the Edinburgh...
Read Moreby Mert Dilek | Dec 6, 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom
’Tis the season for Christmas pantos across the UK, and there could not be a more ideal opener to...
Read Moreby Maria Delgado | Dec 6, 2019 | Argentina, Review
In 2013 Ignacio Bartolone created a buzz with his first play, Piedra sentada, Pata corrida...
Read Moreby Lisa Marie Bowler | Dec 5, 2019 | Dance Umbrella 2019, London, Review, Theatre and Dance, United Kingdom
Within ten seconds, I am in love. Three men have taken off their shoes at the side of a white,...
Read Moreby Christine Deitner | Dec 5, 2019 | Los Angeles, Review, United States of America
Saul: It is always your turn. Every time you are on that court, it is always your turn. Wen...
Read Moreby Jane Baldwin | Dec 4, 2019 | Adaptation, Boston, Review, United States of America
Denis O’Hare and Lisa Peterson created Homer’s Coat, a theatre company that explores...
Read Moreby Rathsaran Sireekan | Dec 4, 2019 | Belgium, Participatory Theatre, Review
New Nexus Formed After several projects which look into ways to expand performing art’s notion of...
Read Moreby Christine Deitner | Dec 3, 2019 | Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Review, Theatre and Film, United States of America
Mr. D’Alcala: If the time ever comes when your kind can walk a city street in daylight with...
Read Moreby Gowri S | Dec 3, 2019 | Devised Theatre, India, News, Theatre and Dance
A young boy from Nepal snatched away from his home in the Himalayas, now lives in a big slum in...
Read Moreby Christine Deitner | Dec 3, 2019 | Los Angeles, Review, United Kingdom
’Tis the season for holiday-inspired and joy-infused entertainment and Ruskin Group Theatre Co. in...
Read Moreby Kennedy Fiorella | Dec 2, 2019 | Canada, Musical Theatre, Review
Lived experiences provide a foundation for the creation of theatre which is deeply personal, and...
Read Moreby Vikram Phukan | Dec 2, 2019 | India, Review, Theatre and Politics
The legendary Habba Khatoun comes to life in Purva Naresh’s Zoon, a play that attempts to give...
Read Moreby Aleks Sierz | Dec 1, 2019 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
Naturalism is both the best thing about British theatre, being democratic and comprehensible by...
Read Moreby Yulia Savikovskaya | Dec 1, 2019 | Finland, Review, Theatre and Opera
Just as the first signs of autumn begin to take over the glorious summer (shorter sunsets,...
Read Moreby Maria Delgado | Nov 30, 2019 | Argentina, Review, Spain
Romina Paula is perhaps best known outside Argentina for her work as an actress in seminal films...
Read Moreby Aleks Sierz | Nov 30, 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Some news stories have a very long half-life. Their power to shock does not diminish; they...
Read Moreby Michael Schweikardt | Nov 29, 2019 | Design, Interview, Los Angeles, Theatre and Disability, United States of America
Scenic designer Sean Fanning recently designed a beautiful and provocative set for Jack Thorne’s...
Read Moreby Mert Dilek | Nov 29, 2019 | Adaptation, Italy, London, Review, United Kingdom
Adapting novels for the stage is a tricky business. When the novel in question happens to be...
Read Moreby Aleks Sierz | Nov 28, 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Age, United Kingdom
Actor Miriam Margolyes is a phenomenon. Not only has this Dickensian specialist starred in...
Read Moreby Abhimanyu Acharya | Nov 28, 2019 | Canada, India, Review
SAWITRI Theatre, based out of Mississauga, Ontario, recently paid a tribute to the acclaimed...
Read Moreby Clement Lee | Nov 27, 2019 | Hong Kong, Interview, Transcultural Collaborations
For most people in Hong Kong, the name Lyudmila Pavlichenko certainly does not ring a bell. She is...
Read Moreby Maria Delgado | Nov 27, 2019 | Argentina, Review, Theatre and Gender
For many in the English-speaking world, the company Piel de Lava is known primarily for its work...
Read Moreby Ahram Online | Nov 27, 2019 | News, Puppetry, Syria, Theatre for Young Audiences
Walid Abu Rashed walks past bombed-out buildings in war-torn northwest Syria, carrying a large...
Read Moreby Mert Dilek | Nov 26, 2019 | Dramaturgy, News, United Kingdom
Founded in 2001, the Dramaturgs’ Network is the only organization in the United Kingdom solely...
Read Moreby John Brunner | Nov 26, 2019 | France, Germany, Review, Translation
It opens with a manic attempt to clean. The sheets, the floors, the smell of the air, everything...
Read Moreby Jane Baldwin | Nov 25, 2019 | Boston, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Admissions is the third work of Joshua Harmon to appear at SpeakEasy in Boston’s South End. The...
Read Moreby Aleks Sierz | Nov 24, 2019 | Documentary Theatre, London, Review, Turkey, United Kingdom
Truth is the first casualty of war, and often it is journalists who have to pay the price. Killing...
Read Moreby Mert Dilek | Nov 24, 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Art, Translation, United Kingdom
What’s the use of thinking about the future? What’s the use of thinking about the future in a...
Read Moreby Lisa Marie Bowler | Nov 24, 2019 | Dance Umbrella 2019, Festivals, Review, Theatre and Dance, United Kingdom
For the last three years, dance maker and artist Freddie Opoku-Addaie has been a guest programmer...
Read Moreby Antigoni Gaitana | Nov 23, 2019 | Greece, New York, Review, Theatre and Opera, United States of America
It was a devouring mouth or a generative source. The whole performance was a dystopian collage of subconscious associations of the creator. Some of them were personal and some of them were direct references to archetypes and well-known artworks. The non-verbal narrative was constituted by very inventive imagery which was underlined by an ever-present black humor.
Read Moreby Miranda Laurence | Nov 23, 2019 | Dance Umbrella 2019, Review, South Africa, Theatre and Dance, United Kingdom
In darkness, a quiet sobbing, acutely intimate in the vastness of the Barbican main stage. Now...
Read Moreby Emiliia Dementsova | Nov 23, 2019 | Festivals, Japan, Review, Russia, Theatre Olympics 2019
This year is a special one for the Theatre Olympics. For in it’s touring, it is comprised of two...
Read Moreby David O'Donnell | Nov 22, 2019 | Festivals, New Zealand, Review
TAHI Fess’s: New Zealand Festival of Solo Performance, Artistic Director: Sally Richards....
Read Moreby Aleks Sierz | Nov 22, 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom, United States of America
South America’s trauma in the second half of the twentieth century can be summed up by one phrase:...
Read Moreby Maja Stefanovska | Nov 21, 2019 | Canada, Review, Theatre and Gender
David Mamet’s play Oleanna is about the power struggle between a university professor and one of...
Read Moreby Patrick Langston | Nov 21, 2019 | Canada, Review, Theatre and Gender
Oleanna, David Mamet’s then-startling play about sexual harassment and power dynamics, debuted in...
Read Moreby Natasha Lomonossoff | Nov 20, 2019 | Canada, Devised Theatre, Review
Dramaturged and directed by native Kingston and award-winning playwright Judith Thompson, the...
Read Moreby Paul Yachnin Hannah Korell | Nov 20, 2019 | Canada, Dramaturgy, Essay
Last winter, at the Studio Theatre at Ryerson University in downtown Toronto, Canadian actor...
Read Moreby Natasha Lomonossoff | Nov 19, 2019 | Acting, Canada, Review
The works of modern Irish playwright Samuel Beckett, largely absurdist and tragicomic in scope,...
Read Moreby David Vernon | Nov 19, 2019 | New York, Puppetry, Review, United States of America
Composer Paul Rudolph accompanies the cast through a score that is perfectly in sync with the story line. Delightfully, it is a musical score that reminds it’s listener that this is how Musical Theatre “really works.” Both Haley and Lott keep up the musical pace with Barnhart.
Read Moreby Jagger Biggs | Nov 18, 2019 | London, Review, Russian Theatre Abroad, United Kingdom
This month, Moscow’s Theatre of Nations graced the Barbican’s stage with Shukshin’s Stories, an...
Read Moreby Neeraja Murthy | Nov 18, 2019 | India, News, Theatre and Politics
City-based Rangasthalam Actors Studio turns the spotlight on International Women’s Day theme for...
Read Moreby Patrick Langston | Nov 18, 2019 | Canada, Review, Theatre and Politics
You think you have a handle on the messy business of appropriation? Then you haven’t seen Kat...
Read Moreby Yulia Savikovskaya | Nov 17, 2019 | Finland, Review, Theatre and Dance, Theatre and Opera
Ballet Alice in Wonderland, and operas Carmen, Die Tote Stadt, and Das Rheingold. At the Finnish...
Read Moreby Christine Deitner | Nov 17, 2019 | Los Angeles, Review, United States of America
“We are moving in the right direction, we cannot go back – There won’t be more camps, more...
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