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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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.
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...
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,...
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...
Building Bridges: Interweaving Beckett – Brazil and Poland
Máskara – the Transdisciplinary Research Center in Theatre, Dance, and Performance – is an...
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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“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...
Interview with Ayham Majid Agha: On Shifting From Interactive Theater at Home into Creating a New Performing Form in Exile
Ayham Majid Agha is a Syrian actor, dramaturge, and director. After studying theater arts at...
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...
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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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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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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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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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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Rockets and Blue Lights, National Theatre
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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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“Youth Everlasting and Life Without Death”: Performing Folk-tale and “Centriphery”
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FIRE THEATRE Mime Company: On a Quest for Fire Drama
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The Song Project, Royal Court
As its name suggests, The Song Project is more a collaborative experiment than a conventional...
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Interview with Ellen Pearlman about AIBO, an “Emotionally Intelligent” Artificial Intelligent Brainwave Opera. Part 2.
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“Chalk Lines” by Chalk Repertory Theatre – An Immersive, Virtual, Audio Play Tour
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Beckett 2020
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A Gathering of Absence: The Multimedia Performance of “Abandoned Shores / Negative Photographs”
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“Oleanna,” Arts Theatre
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