The Theater of Metaverse
Introduction It seems that the mission of the father of arts, “theatre”, as well as...
by Hayel Ali Al-Mathabi | May 10, 2025 | Essay, Festivals, Theatre and AI, Theatre and Science
Introduction It seems that the mission of the father of arts, “theatre”, as well as...
by Berna Ataoğlu | Feb 6, 2025 | Canada, Review, Theatre and AI, Theatre and Science
by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar | May 9, 2025 | Acting, Interview, Macedonia
An Interview with Mr.Bajrus Mjaku – one of the most remarkable theatre character actors from...
by Michał Lachman | Mar 4, 2025 | Acting, Festivals, Ireland
by Michał Lachman | Mar 4, 2025 | Acting, Festivals, Ireland
by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar | Jun 2, 2025 | Directing, Greece, Interview
An interview with Wichi, a theatre director and actor, Athens, Greece Wichi was born in...
by Margaret Rose | Mar 10, 2025 | Directing, Italy, Review
by Jonathan Kalb | Feb 10, 2025 | Directing, Review, United States of America
by Vassili Schedrin | May 2, 2025 | Dramaturgy, Review, Russia, United States of America
Soviet nonconformist art was emerged in the 1950s when artists dared to transcend the official...
by David O'Donnell | Mar 21, 2024 | Design, Essay, Festivals, New Zealand
The Drifting Room, created and performed by Stephen Bain. The Performance Arcade 2024,...
by Maria Delgado | Feb 14, 2023 | Adaptation, Design, Directing, Review, Spain
by Ilinca Todoruţ | Dec 5, 2024 | Festivals, Japan, Kyoto Experiment 2024, Management, News
The interdisciplinary theatre, dance, and performance art festival Kyoto Experiment (KEX) wowed me...
by Kuan-Ting Lin | Jun 23, 2025 | Interview, Playwriting, Taiwan
Yu-Chia Wei is a Taiwanese playwright whose work has earned numerous accolades. Her two plays, A...
by Berna Ataoğlu | Apr 3, 2025 | Playwriting, Theatre and Gender, Turkey
by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar | Mar 26, 2025 | Festivals, Interview, Playwriting, Romania
by Aleks Sierz | Feb 26, 2025 | London, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Decolonization, United Kingdom
Diaries are dynamite — they hold secrets, and secrets can tear families apart. In Coral Wylie’s...
by Yizhou Zhang | Sep 5, 2024 | Germany, South Africa, Theatre and Dance, Theatre and Decolonization
This summer, Berlin’s Volksbühne presented The Visitors, a new work by the choreographer Constanza...
by Aleks Sierz | Jun 25, 2024 | Nigeria, Review, United Kingdom
by Kuan-Ting Lin | Jun 23, 2025 | Interview, Playwriting, Taiwan
Yu-Chia Wei is a Taiwanese playwright whose work has earned numerous accolades. Her two plays, A...
by Berna Ataoğlu | Apr 3, 2025 | Playwriting, Theatre and Gender, Turkey
by Aleks Sierz | Jun 19, 2025 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, Review, United Kingdom
Let us always remember the pioneers. Although there is a fair amount of relatively mainstream...
by Victoria Zavyalova | May 7, 2025 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Benedict Andrews’ reinvention of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard at St. Ann’s Warehouse raises the...
by Berna Ataoğlu | Apr 25, 2025 | Canada, Review, Theatre and Gender
by Jack Wernick | Aug 20, 2024 | Adaptation, Argentina, Interview
I had the opportunity to interview frequent collaborators, writer-director Oscar Barney Finn and...
by David O'Donnell | Oct 15, 2024 | Education, New Zealand, Review, Theatre and Decolonization
The stage explodes with ihi (essential force) and aroha (love, empathy) in Unreel, the new work by...
by Kirk Dodd | Jul 20, 2024 | Australia, Dramaturgy, Review, Sydney
by Aleks Sierz | Jan 22, 2025 | Covid-19, London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
Even the best streamed theatre can’t compete with the live version. It’s simple — with this art...
by Călin Ciobotari | Feb 17, 2023 | Covid-19, Essay, Festivals, Romania, Transmedia
Visit Performap.com - an Interactive Digital Map of Global Theatre and Performance Festivals developed by TheTheatreTimes.com. With hundreds of festivals browsable and searchable by festival location, type, and date, Performap is the first extensive digital index of its kind in the field, built expressly for artists, audiences, critics, scholars, festival organizers, curators, and presenters from around the world.
by Emilija Kvočka | May 14, 2025 | Essay, Festivals, Serbia
The time of frozen catharsis is now. But what kind of theatre refuses purification? Theatre...
by Hayel Ali Al-Mathabi | May 10, 2025 | Essay, Festivals, Theatre and AI, Theatre and Science
by Kuan-Ting Lin | Jun 23, 2025 | Interview, Playwriting, Taiwan
Yu-Chia Wei is a Taiwanese playwright whose work has earned numerous accolades. Her two plays, A...
by Aleks Sierz | Jun 19, 2025 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, Review, United Kingdom
Let us always remember the pioneers. Although there is a fair amount of relatively mainstream...
by Kuan-Ting Lin | Jun 23, 2025 | Interview, Playwriting, Taiwan
Yu-Chia Wei is a Taiwanese playwright whose work has earned numerous accolades. Her two plays, A...
Read Moreby Aleks Sierz | Jun 19, 2025 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, Review, United Kingdom
Let us always remember the pioneers. Although there is a fair amount of relatively mainstream...
Read Moreby Aleks Sierz | Jun 17, 2025 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Only the truth, we are told, can set us free — but there are times in love when the New Testament...
Read Moreby Emilija Kvočka | Jun 13, 2025 | Festivals, Review, Serbia
In honour of playwright Jovan Sterija Popović, Sterijino pozorje was held this year for the...
Read Moreby Ivanka Apostolova Baskar | Jun 2, 2025 | Directing, Greece, Interview
An interview with Wichi, a theatre director and actor, Athens, Greece Wichi was born in...
Read Moreby Ariadne Mikou | May 31, 2025 | Italy, Review, Theatre and Dance
Under the artistic direction of the étoile Eleonora Abbagnato, Rome Opera House (Teatro dell’Opera...
Read Moreby Ivanka Apostolova Baskar | May 23, 2025 | France, Interview, Theatre and Politics
An Interview with Chantal Boiron, editor-in-chief for UBU Scenes d`Europe/European Stages, Paris,...
Read Moreby Duška Radosavljević | May 18, 2025 | Denmark, Review, Theatre and Politics
There is a big screen hanging above the stage on which four faces in four individual frames are...
Read Moreby Lisa Monde | May 16, 2025 | Interview, Musical Theatre, Spain, United Kingdom
For the first part of the interview go here. From the earliest musicals, one can trace the...
Read Moreby Duška Radosavljević | May 15, 2025 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
’To be or not to be’, that is a question with a completely new ring to it in Teatro La Plaza’s...
Read Moreby Emilija Kvočka | May 14, 2025 | Essay, Festivals, Serbia
The time of frozen catharsis is now. But what kind of theatre refuses purification? Theatre...
Read Moreby Duška Radosavljević | May 14, 2025 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
This Guardian pick of the year 2025 recently closed at London’s Almeida theatre, but it is...
Read Moreby Ivanka Apostolova Baskar | May 9, 2025 | Acting, Interview, Macedonia
An Interview with Mr.Bajrus Mjaku – one of the most remarkable theatre character actors from...
Read Moreby Margaret Rose | May 8, 2025 | Italy, Review, Theatre and Politics
Playwright, actor, director and novelist Davide Enia had his first success as a theatrical...
Read Moreby Victoria Zavyalova | May 7, 2025 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Benedict Andrews’ reinvention of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard at St. Ann’s Warehouse raises the...
Read Moreby Vassili Schedrin | May 2, 2025 | Dramaturgy, Review, Russia, United States of America
Soviet nonconformist art was emerged in the 1950s when artists dared to transcend the official...
Read Moreby Aleks Sierz | Apr 29, 2025 | Ireland, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
Theatre needs mystery. In the darkened auditorium, with a crowd of strangers sharing your...
Read Moreby Berna Ataoğlu | Apr 25, 2025 | Canada, Review, Theatre and Gender
Hypothetical Baby is a one-woman show written and performed by Rachel Cairns, centered on her own...
Read Moreby Kyungjin Jo | Apr 24, 2025 | Review, South Korea, Transcultural Collaborations
In the intimate setting of a small black box theatre, audience members find themselves not in the...
Read Moreby Walter Byongsok Chon | Apr 22, 2025 | Interview, Musical Theatre, Theatre for Young Audiences, United States of America
This is a video interview with Michael Salvatore Commendatore, projection designer for Disney’s...
Read Moreby Morgan Skolnik | Apr 20, 2025 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, New York, Review
Space Lesbians! Portals! Psychic Sisters! Oh my! These are just some of the elements introduced in...
Read Moreby Margaret Rose | Apr 16, 2025 | Italy, Review, Theatre and Disability
At Milan’s Franco Parenti theatre, Shards of Chaotic Memory in Multicoloured Ink (Schegge di...
Read Moreby Aleks Sierz | Apr 15, 2025 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, Review, United Kingdom
Coming of age stories are more or less all the same. But what distinguishes Julia Grogan’s...
Read Moreby Jonathan Kalb | Apr 12, 2025 | Adaptation, New York, Review
Andrew Scott’s Vanya—a solo show in which he plays all the roles in Anton Chekhov’s classic...
Read Moreby Aleks Sierz | Apr 11, 2025 | Documentary Theatre, Dramaturgy, Review, United Kingdom
Are we really in “a new era of male anger, societal discontent and rage”? This is what Royal Court...
Read Moreby Cristina Modreanu | Apr 7, 2025 | Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America
Did you knit your scarf? A woman asked me while we were waiting in the line for the restroom. No!...
Read Moreby Berna Ataoğlu | Apr 3, 2025 | Playwriting, Theatre and Gender, Turkey
Turkish writer, theatre critic, and academic Zehra İpşiroğlu’s book Woman Plays features...
Read Moreby Morgan Skolnik | Apr 2, 2025 | New York, Review, Theatre and Religion
The room is thick with steam (ok, it’s smoke machine smoke), an accordion and clarinet cycle...
Read Moreby Ivanka Apostolova Baskar | Apr 2, 2025 | Croatia, Interview, Transcultural Collaborations, Translation
An Interview with Ms. Zeljka Turcinovic – dramaturg, editor of magazines: Croatian Theatre and...
Read Moreby Jonathan Kalb | Apr 2, 2025 | New York, Review, Theatre and Art
Alice Childress has been having a moment the past few years. This extraordinary Black playwright,...
Read Moreby Aleks Sierz | Mar 28, 2025 | Acting, London, Review, United Kingdom
Anxiety. Apprehension. Angst even. Yes, that’s the feeling that rises in me as I come into the...
Read Moreby Morgan Skolnik | Mar 27, 2025 | New York, Review, Theatre and Gender
Much like the women it centers on, Roundabout Theatre Company’s Liberation is rebellious and not...
Read Moreby Ivanka Apostolova Baskar | Mar 26, 2025 | Festivals, Interview, Playwriting, Romania
An Interview with Mr. Horia Gârbea – Playwright, dramaturg, translator, Bucaresti, Romania Horia...
Read Moreby Aleks Sierz | Mar 21, 2025 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
One of the joys of contemporary playwriting is its openness to flexible casting. In Ruby Thomas’s...
Read Moreby Marcina Zaccaria | Mar 19, 2025 | Dramaturgy, Interview, Producing, United States of America
Getting to the truth – the emotional truth and understanding. I think emotion more than ideology. It resonates with us is how we feel. I can understand that we can be in conflict, I have an emotional connection to both sides of an emotional argument. I not only resonate and feel seen, then I have a better understanding of the person whose thought was in opposition of me.
Read Moreby Emilija Kvočka | Mar 18, 2025 | Directing, Review, Serbia
The theatrical kamikaze that destroys all the mechanisms of the world and itself—that is, theatre...
Read Moreby Lisa Monde | Mar 12, 2025 | Interview, Musical Theatre, Spain
In November 2024, the world premiere of a new musical by composer Iván Macías, The Pillars of the...
Read Moreby Margaret Rose | Mar 10, 2025 | Directing, Italy, Review
In February I caught Antonio Syxty’s staging of Romeo e Giulietta (Romeo and Juliet) at Milan’s...
Read Moreby Emily Cordes | Mar 8, 2025 | Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America
But a woman is a changeling, always shifting shape Just when you think you have it figured out...
Read Moreby Aleks Sierz | Mar 5, 2025 | Acting, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
How long would you wait for your soulmate? In “The Demon Lover”, a short story by Elizabeth Bowen,...
Read Moreby Margaret Rose | Mar 5, 2025 | Italy, Review, Theatre and Science
Rarely have I spent such an intense ninety minutes watching a show, as I did the other evening at...
Read Moreby Ivanka Apostolova Baskar | Mar 4, 2025 | Interview, Theatre and Politics, Turkey
Interview with Handan Salta – co-founder of the Istanbul Theatre Showcase – TheatreIST, theatre...
Read Moreby Michał Lachman | Mar 4, 2025 | Acting, Festivals, Ireland
To read PART I of this report, go to this link. The line of Irish productions at 2024...
Read Moreby Michał Lachman | Mar 4, 2025 | Acting, Festivals, Ireland
My carefully planned visit to the 2024 Dublin Theatre Festival started and ended in unexpected...
Read Moreby Diana Fathi | Mar 3, 2025 | Books, Iran, Playwriting, Translation
In November, the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) awarded the 2024 Translation Prize...
Read Moreby Geraldine Brodie | Mar 3, 2025 | Germany, Review, Theatre and Gender
Interpretations in cultures and languages external to Spain have been integral to the survival of...
Read Moreby Margaret Rose | Mar 2, 2025 | Italy, Review, Theatre and Politics
In his short story, A Report to an Academy, written and published in 1917, Franz Kafka imagines...
Read Moreby Aleks Sierz | Feb 26, 2025 | London, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Decolonization, United Kingdom
Diaries are dynamite — they hold secrets, and secrets can tear families apart. In Coral Wylie’s...
Read Moreby Aleks Sierz | Feb 21, 2025 | Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
British people are socially awkward: this explains why we talk about the weather, queue...
Read Moreby Alexander Fatouros | Feb 21, 2025 | New York, Transmedia, United States of America
A leading figure in contemporary art, Candida Alvarez is an American painter and studio artist...
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