Kerala-based Rangachetana Theatre Group Initiates a Unique Project to Help Artists in Need
The Thrissur-based collective has been organizing performances in the homes of artists and...
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In Photos: Large Variety of Performances in Inaugural Eazees Int’l Women’s Theatre Festival
Numerous Egyptian and international theatre plays took part in the inaugural edition of Eazees...
Cameron Mackintosh’s All-Japanese “Oliver!” Will Have You Asking for More
It was enough for theater fans to learn that after more than 50 years, the Tony Award-winning...
Towards Fairer Contractual Practices for Freelance Dramaturgs: A Conversation Facilitated by Catriona Craig
On 21 June 2021, the Dramaturgs Network (a volunteer arts organization by and for dramaturgs...
Heaven Isn’t Too Far away; It’s in Downtown Houston at TUTS’ “Rock of Ages”
I have to confess something. I haven’t really missed theatre since the Covid-19 pandemic forced...
Building Bridges: Interweaving Beckett – Brazil and Poland
Máskara – the Transdisciplinary Research Center in Theatre, Dance, and Performance – is an...
From Pygmies to Puppets: What to Do with Roald Dahl’s Enslaved Oompa-Loompas in Modern Adaptations?
The stage adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has opened in Brisbane. Charlie, like...
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“Bopha!” Arrests Audiences More Than Two Decades Later!
Percy Mtwa, the legendary playwright and director of multiple award-winning theatre productions,...
A Conversation with Director Ashley Tata
Ashley Tata is a Brooklyn-based director and maker of multimedia works. I had the pleasure of...
Towards Fairer Contractual Practices for Freelance Dramaturgs: A Conversation Facilitated by Catriona Craig
On 21 June 2021, the Dramaturgs Network (a volunteer arts organization by and for dramaturgs...
Designing for Tuacahn Amphitheater (A Three Part Series): Part Three – An Interview With Lighting Designer Cory Pattak
This is PART 3 of the series. To read PART 1 and PART 2, click the links. I complete my three-part...
West End Scene: London’s Trafalgar Theatre to Open with “Jersey Boys”
Trafalgar Entertainment’s Sir Howard Panter and Dame Rosemary Squire are leading theatre...
Hilary Mantel and Ben Miles’s The Mirror and the Light at the Gielgud Theatre: Engaging, but Rather Low Key
This is a labor of love. Hilary Mantel has adapted The Mirror and the Light, the third novel of...
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From Pygmies to Puppets: What to Do with Roald Dahl’s Enslaved Oompa-Loompas in Modern Adaptations?
The stage adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has opened in Brisbane. Charlie, like...
INTERVIEWS
Towards Fairer Contractual Practices for Freelance Dramaturgs: A Conversation Facilitated by Catriona Craig
On 21 June 2021, the Dramaturgs Network (a volunteer arts organization by and for dramaturgs...
REVIEWS
Heaven Isn’t Too Far away; It’s in Downtown Houston at TUTS’ “Rock of Ages”
I have to confess something. I haven’t really missed theatre since the Covid-19 pandemic forced...
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Heaven Isn’t Too Far away; It’s in Downtown Houston at TUTS’ “Rock of Ages”
I have to confess something. I haven’t really missed theatre since the Covid-19 pandemic forced...
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Towards Fairer Contractual Practices for Freelance Dramaturgs: A Conversation Facilitated by Catriona Craig
On 21 June 2021, the Dramaturgs Network (a volunteer arts organization by and for dramaturgs...
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A Lady with a Machine Gun
Belarusian theatre hibernated since the notorious events of 2020. The artistic quality of most of...
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From Pygmies to Puppets: What to Do with Roald Dahl’s Enslaved Oompa-Loompas in Modern Adaptations?
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Met Opera Returns with History-making Debut by Terence Blanchard
The Metropolitan Opera, which was closed after the coronavirus broke out in New York in March...
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Cameron Mackintosh’s All-Japanese “Oliver!” Will Have You Asking for More
It was enough for theater fans to learn that after more than 50 years, the Tony Award-winning...
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A Play Inspired by Bharati’s Verses
How S.V. Sahasranamam’s stage adaptation of the poet’s Panchali Sabadham became a huge success...
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In Photos: Large Variety of Performances in Inaugural Eazees Int’l Women’s Theatre Festival
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This is a labor of love. Hilary Mantel has adapted The Mirror and the Light, the third novel of...
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Tang Kwong-San’s Quest to Understand Hong Kong
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Lance Weiler on the Future of Storytelling and the Film “The Last Broadcast”
A connoisseur of new art forms and emergent technology, Lance Weiler is a highly sought-after...
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Over 300 Applications Received to Perform in Sharm El-Sheikh Int’l Theatre Festival for Youth
The management of the Sharm El-Sheikh International Theatre Festival for Youth (SITFY) revealed...
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A Memory Palace on Tauris: Reprise of Gluck’s Iphégenie en Tauride at the Paris Opera
Gluck’s Iphégenie en Tauride doesn’t waste any time ushering the viewer into its mystical score....
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“3 Sopranos, 3 Tenors” to Perform in Aspendos Opera, Ballet Fest
The 28th iteration of the 28th Aspendos Opera and Ballet Festival, which kicked off on Sept. 4 in...
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Kerala-based Rangachetana Theatre Group Initiates a Unique Project to Help Artists in Need
The Thrissur-based collective has been organizing performances in the homes of artists and...
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“The Last Trial” Musical: There Once Was a Wizard, a Servant of Night
The poets say that Love will be the world’s great redeemer, But love is rarely quite as pure as...
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Campania Teatro Festival 21: A Conversation with Ruggero Cappuccio at the Real Bosco di Capodimonte
The Real Bosco di Capodimonte is more than a public park in Naples: it is a Paradise, not far from...
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“Text Me When You Arrive” is Witty, Punchy, and Hard-Hitting!
In a normal country, plays like Text Me When You Arrive, which has just ended a short run at the...
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Review: “UnTuned” (Golvareh)
It’s hard to prepare for life’s high and lows when you think too highly of yourself to expect...
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“The Time of Our Singing” Opera Tackles Racial Segregation
Based on an American novel detailing the country’s troubled 20th century, the new Belgian...
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Family Drama Hits Close to Home for Keito Okamoto
When Keito Okamoto was offered the title role in French dramatist Florian Zeller’s latest work,...
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Bess Wohl’s “Camp Siegfried” at the Old Vic: Powerfully Chilling and Resonant
Are we too obsessed with Nazism? Apart from countless television programs which revisit that grim...
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If You See a Dragon Coming, You Pull a Sword: Interview with Robert Wilson
He supports the Freeszfe Association and condemns the curtailment of artistic freedom. We asked...
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Ken Reynolds: 1938–2021. A Personal and Professional Remembrance of East European Theatre’s Finest Photographer
“Stop now! See that? You see that cloud? That beautiful shape?” That is what Ken Reynolds would...
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A Festival that We Need: FOLDA – Festival of Live Digital Arts
As the theatre world in Canada and the US anxiously expects the final re-opening of Broadway and...
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New Deal for Broadway: NYC Theater Luminaries Agree on Reforms
Following a summit of industry leaders organized by Black Theatre United earlier this year, a...
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Kenya’s New Theatre Awards
The Kenya Theatre Awards seek to fill these two gaps by tracking and watching all performances in the country and providing data and statistics on the number of venues, performances staged, people watching performances in the country. This will be achieved by the Jury and technical team of the Awards who will work in partnership with theatre venues, producers and theatre companies.
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Fringe Theatre Reaches Global Scale with Digital Platform
A new age of digital theatre is rising on the horizon, and its dawn is being accelerated by the...
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Divas Are Forever: Marina Abramović’s “7 Deaths of Maria Callas”
Does a diva ever really die? It’s a fitting question from the reigning queen of endurance art,...
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Art Alert: Egyptian Silent Theatre Show “Halawes” to Premiere at Al-Hanager
By making his 12-year-old dream come true, director Mohmed Abdalla aims to send a message of hope...
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Playing with “White is Purity” in Pirandello’s “Comme tu me veux”
In 2017, the cosmetics company Nivea released an advert that was promptly pulled: a white woman’s...
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Veteran Thespian Launches Collection of Original Plays
“We have in essence what could be the most beautiful country in the world, we have great weather, we have friendlier people than I have met travelling elsewhere, and every seven years or so, somebody gives us an order and we sharpen our machetes and putting things alight! For those of us of a certain sensibility, this is stupid and what can we do about it? I knew I didn’t want to be the MP of my rural home area but I could write plays…”
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Rockets and Blue Lights, National Theatre
For more than three decades, playwright Winsome Pinnock has been at the forefront of new writing,...
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Plays from Egypt, Oman and Spain Scoop Most Awards at 11th Theatre Without Fund Festival
The festival took place in Alexandria between 22 and 26 August 2021. During the official closing...
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In Photos: Yehia El-Fakharany’s New Play “Yama Fel Gerab Ya Hawy” to Stage in Cairo
The play casts famous actors like Eyad Nassar, Sama Ibrahim and Sherif Desouky as well as singers...
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How Indonesian Young Creative Workers in Yogyakarta Stay Productive Amid the Pandemic
Danastri Rizqi Nabilah, a filmmaker from Yogyakarta – a city in Indonesia known for its education...
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28th Aspendos Opera Ballet Fest to Start with Murat IV Opera
The 28th iteration of the International Aspendos Opera and Ballet Festival will kick off with the...
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Yuri Ng Has Big Plans for Contemporary Dance in Hong Kong
It’s hard to think of a more awkward time for Yuri Ng to have become the City Contemporary Dance...
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The Barber of Seville
Indeed in the Baroque period, before the invention of the conductors, harpsichordists (who were usually also the composer) would lead the orchestra, establishing the harmonic structure and ensuring the rhythmic steadiness by nodding their heads. As music became more harmonically complex, and harpsichordists had to focus exclusively on their playing, the conducting duties fell to the first violinist. This style of orchestral leading, split between the harpsichordists and the violinist, was soon abandoned due to an inherent clash in leadership.
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Excavations Begin to Unearth Theater at Turkey’s Ancient Savatra
Archaeological excavations have started at the ancient city of Savatra, located in the Karatay...
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Subira, A New Musical: Under-promised, Over-delivered!
‘Time waits for no military man!’. Thus, on a punctual note, Subira, A New Musical opened on...
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“RashDash: Look at Me, Don’t Look at Me,” Paines Plough Roundabout
Imagine you suffered terrible injustices that in your day and age were just the norm, that your...
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“An Odyssey” at Quantum Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA
Imagine, if you will, one of those old-fashioned TV game shows with two doors. Behind Door Number...
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“Don’s Party” at 50: An Achingly Real Portrayal of The Hapless Australian Middle-Class Voter
The play Don’s Party premiered on August 11, 1971 at Carlton’s Pram Factory, home to the radical...
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“(It’s Been 76 Years and We’re) Still Waiting for Lefty” – Theatre Unleashed at Hollywood Fringe Festival
Seventy-six years after Clifford Odets’ Waiting for Lefty premiered in New York, Theatre Unleashed...
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“Every dollar is a soldier/With money you’re a dragon”: A Virtual Promenade between Two Migrant Fates
Running Aug 24-29 at the 2021 Edinburgh Fringe, Every dollar is a soldier/With money you’re a...
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“Youth Everlasting and Life Without Death”: Performing Folk-tale and “Centriphery”
A Theoretical and Organizational Premise “Centriphery” is an on-going large-scale...
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Andrei Kureichik’s “Insulted. Belarus”: One Year On
Alexei Nesterov, an actor in my wife Oksana Mysina’s film, Insulted. Belarus(sia), sent her a...
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Cairo Int’l Festival for Experimental Theatre launches Theatre Festivals Network
The 28th edition of the Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre (CIFET, 14-19...
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FIRE THEATRE Mime Company: On a Quest for Fire Drama
The Isle of Youth 2021 was a two-day (PhD) student conference held on 11-12 May 2021 as part of...
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