After the Pandemic: Nicola Piovani and the Reopening of the Trianon Viviani Theatre in Naples
The Trianon Viviani Theatre is located in the Forcella quarter of the ancient center of Naples. It...
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Transmedia & Adaptation
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“Lerumo”: A Cautionary Tale
Lerumo, written and directed by Malaika Ntsoeu and featuring Malaika Motshabi Ntsoeu, Malefu...
Asian Adaptations of Shakespeare Today
During the AAPI (Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders) heritage month, let us explore the...
Democratizing the Theatre-Making Process: “Six Characters in Search of An Author”
To re-open its season after the lifting of COVID-19-related restrictions, Paris’s Théâtre de la...
Performing Shakespeare in the Era of COVID-19
Although tragedy is not usually the preferred companion for hard times, Anglophone pop culture...
Artists’ Entry: Lia Rodrigues
Every month, Etcetera gazes into the soul of a performer. Artistic interest instead of human...
“We Wish We’d Had This Show When We Were Kids”: Interview With “The Glitter Garden” Playwrights George Fowler and Lori Leigh
The Glitter Garden by George Fowler and Lori Leigh. Directed by Lori Leigh. Circa Theatre,...
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Robbie McCauley, Groundbreaking Playwright and Performer Dies at 79
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A Conversation with Director Ashley Tata
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Australia’s Settler and First Nations Histories Meet in The Wild of The Bush in “Dogged”
Review: Dogged, directed by Declan Greene. Griffin Theatre Company in association with Force...
Our Experiments: Upcycling in Theatre – An Interview with “Upcycling” Costume and Set Designer Reet Aus from Estonia
Reet Aus has spent her career in fashion and theatre committed to sustainability, where she’s...
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...
Laughing in Darkness: Reading Różewicz Anew
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Laughing in Darkness: Reading Różewicz Anew
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To re-open its season after the lifting of COVID-19-related restrictions, Paris’s Théâtre de la...
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Democratizing the Theatre-Making Process: “Six Characters in Search of An Author”
To re-open its season after the lifting of COVID-19-related restrictions, Paris’s Théâtre de la...
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The Personal is Political: Theatre as Therapy in Madrid
The Spanish capital ranks amongst the European cities with the highest mortality rates for...
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About “The Elephant in the Room”
Online performance, streamed instead of attended, has given theatre companies an immense amount of...
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After the Pandemic: Nicola Piovani and the Reopening of the Trianon Viviani Theatre in Naples
The Trianon Viviani Theatre is located in the Forcella quarter of the ancient center of Naples. It...
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Asian Adaptations of Shakespeare Today
During the AAPI (Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders) heritage month, let us explore the...
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“Najdziwniejszy Androgyn” (The Strangest Androgyne): Autism in Performance
A short documentary opening the series entitled Spradyczni artyści (Sporadic Artists, dir....
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Between.Pomiędzy @ 12 — Ohio Impromptu @ 40 — Beckett @ 115
Now in its twelfth year, the Between.Pomiędzy Festival of Literature and Theatre has made much of...
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“Let Them Do Yeats Next!:” “AURIC” At The Brighton Fringe
AURIC (Songs from a Golden Age) at the Brighton Fringe is a unique aural journey and experience...
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Separate Yet Together: The Twelfth International Between.Pomiędzy Festival of Literature and Theatre
Can we be in two places at once? Can an event happen online and offline simultaneously? The...
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The Play “Demo” Recreates a Virtual Meet-up
The online performance depicts marriage rituals and interactions in the digital world with a touch...
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Performing Shakespeare in the Era of COVID-19
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How a Polish Master, Krystian Lupa, Brought Lu Xun’s Madness to Life
Written in 1918, Lu Xun’s A Madman’s Diary marked the advent of modern Chinese literature....
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Two Productions of “The Plague” Push the Boundary of Theatre
The Hong Kong Arts Festival has simultaneously commissioned two provocative productions of Neil...
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The Body Tells the Story: Blessed Unrest’s “Touch”
The past year has, in many ways, turned a sharper lens towards our bodies, particularly our...
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Fadjr Theater Festival Stages Plays Despite COVID-19
The 39th Fadjr International Theater Festival celebrated a wide range of performances, from staged...
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Carnatic Music Marries Theatre in The Madras Players’ “Trinity” – Set to Reach a Global Audience
The Madras Players’ Trinity, filmed by a four-camera set up, will be made available for a global...
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“Tarantula” at the Southwark Playhouse
I think I can safely say that polymath playwright Philip Ridley has had a good lockdown. In March...
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Battery Dance Festival+: Canadian Voices in Dance
In August 2020, Battery Dance shifted its annual Battery Dance Festival to a virtual format. The Festival is a storied free public dance festival commanding a large audience each year. Shifting to the virtual format has allowed Battery Dance to expand offerings and last month saw the birth of Battery Dance Festival+: Canadian Voices in […]
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“La realidad”, Or How to Build Fake News
The premiere of La realidad, the new play by Darío Facal and Pedro Cantalejo, was in March at the...
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Spotlight on “Pale Sister”: On Lighting in Digital Theatre
Pale Sister is the latest adaptation of the Sophoclean tragedy, Antigone (c. 441 BC), written by...
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Be Creative with Your Videoconferencing, Make it Memorable, Make a Difference
On the 21st March 2020, I put out a simple message on my Facebook profile in response to the...
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“The Door You Never Saw Before: A Choosical Musical” at The Geffen
It’s been a decade of a year, and The Geffen Playhouse (or Geffen Stayhouse as they have been...
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“Lerumo”: A Cautionary Tale
Lerumo, written and directed by Malaika Ntsoeu and featuring Malaika Motshabi Ntsoeu, Malefu...
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Waking Up in the Morning, Thinking About “This American Wife”
“Waking up in the morning, thinking about so many things, I just wish things would get...
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Our Experiments: Democratizing The Creative Process
In December 2020, Teatro Stabile di Torino worked with 63 theatre artists on seven radical,...
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Robbie McCauley, Groundbreaking Playwright and Performer Dies at 79
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Online Acting Classes? Here Are the Pros and Cons
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Experimenting with Virtual Theatre: An Interview with Igor Golyak
Igor Golyak is the Artistic Director of Arlekin Players Theatre. Arlekin Players Theatre has...
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XR | AR | VR: CultureHub on La MaMa’s Coffeehouse Aesthetic, Immersive Art, and Tech-Integrated Theatre
Located in graffiti-laden downtown Manhattan where the East Village and NoHo meet at 47 Great...
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About “Saving Britney”: Prologue
Uncertainty can sometimes provoke creativity. When the opening of Shereen Roushbaiani’s one-woman...
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A Play Adapted From Paul Zacharia’s “Ithanente Peru” Puts Nathuram Godse Under The Spotlight
Chennai-based theatre director Prasanna Ramaswamy’s new play, This Is My Name, is an adaptation of...
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Immersive Opera “Laila” at the 50th Hong Kong Arts Festival
Laila, a special co-production by the Hong Kong Arts Festival (HKAF) and the Finnish National...
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The Women Making Waves in Theatre in Africa Part 2
In most parts of Traditional Africa, theatre was a prerogative of the woman. Women were the...
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“We Wish We’d Had This Show When We Were Kids”: Interview With “The Glitter Garden” Playwrights George Fowler and Lori Leigh
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Australia’s Settler and First Nations Histories Meet in The Wild of The Bush in “Dogged”
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About “The Separation”
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The Pandemic Made Their Women’s Suffrage Play Impossible. But the Show Went On — Virtually
Leaders of the women’s suffrage movement relied on public performance to promote their cause. They...
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A Conversation with Director Ashley Tata
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“The Empire Builders:” A Bold Experiment in Alternative Theatre
An intimate listening party of The Empire Builders, an immersive audio production performed by the...
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Nyokabi Macharia: Marching to the Beat of Her Own Drum
Nyokabi Macharia is a Kenyan, performer and all-around lover of life. You know those people who in...
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“Pass Over” – A Sobering and Unflinching Take on African-American Life in America
Performed as part of the Market Theatre’s annual Black History Month Celebrations, which have been...
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By Putting Tensions on Stage, Colleges Aim to Change Campus Culture
The new professor had a choice. He arrived early to a meeting to discover a senior faculty member...
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New Zealand Covid Response Dramatized in Moving Verbatim Play: “Transmission” by Stuart McKenzie
Transmission written by Stuart McKenzie. Directed by Miranda Harcourt and Stuart McKenzie. 20...
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Unchartered Territory: Dancers in Isolation, the Eryc Taylor Dance Company
In five years, in ten years, in twenty, we will remember what it felt like to live through the...
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Theatre “Production Jam” Risks Creating a Lost Generation of Young Artists, European Directors Warn
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