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 Alexander Fatouros | Jul 6, 2025 | Directing, Interview, Los Angeles, New York, News, Theatre and Film, United States of America
Step into the opulent 1880s New York evoked by The Gilded Age, Julian Fellowes’ Emmy-winning HBO...
by Margaret Rose | Mar 10, 2025 | Directing, Italy, Review
by Jonathan Kalb | Feb 10, 2025 | Directing, Review, United States of America
by Anne Hamilton | Jul 10, 2025 | Dramaturgy, Interview, Theatre and Opera, United States of America
Dramaturgy is all about being able to facilitate a line of communication between artists and audience.
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 Aleks Sierz | Jul 6, 2025 | Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
George Bernard Shaw is the supreme example of old writing. Maddeningly verbose, eye-poppingly...
by Berna Ataoğlu | Apr 3, 2025 | Playwriting, Theatre and Gender, Turkey
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 Niloofar Mohtadi | Jul 10, 2025 | Iran, News, Theatre and Politics
“The homeland is not only a piece of land, it’s a memory, it’s love, it’s pain” is a line of...
by Yi-Ming Chen | Jun 28, 2025 | News, Taiwan, Theatre and Politics
by Kasia Lech | Jul 10, 2025 | Festivals, News, Poland
Seventeen productions, including nine premieres, from Japan, Ukraine, the UK, Spain, and Poland,...
by Alma Prelec | Jun 25, 2025 | Review, Spain, Transcultural Collaborations
by Anne Hamilton | Jul 10, 2025 | Dramaturgy, Interview, Theatre and Opera, United States of America
Dramaturgy is all about being able to facilitate a line of communication between artists and audience.
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
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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 Anne Hamilton | Jul 10, 2025 | Dramaturgy, Interview, Theatre and Opera, United States of America
Dramaturgy is all about being able to facilitate a line of communication between artists and audience.
by Aleks Sierz | Jul 6, 2025 | Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
George Bernard Shaw is the supreme example of old writing. Maddeningly verbose, eye-poppingly...
by Alma Prelec | Jun 25, 2025 | Review, Spain, Transcultural Collaborations
by Kasia Lech | Jul 10, 2025 | Festivals, News, Poland
Seventeen productions, including nine premieres, from Japan, Ukraine, the UK, Spain, and Poland,...
Read Moreby Niloofar Mohtadi | Jul 10, 2025 | Iran, News, Theatre and Politics
“The homeland is not only a piece of land, it’s a memory, it’s love, it’s pain” is a line of...
Read Moreby Anne Hamilton | Jul 10, 2025 | Dramaturgy, Interview, Theatre and Opera, United States of America
Dramaturgy is all about being able to facilitate a line of communication between artists and audience.
Read Moreby Lisa Monde | Jul 7, 2025 | Interview, Musical Theatre, Transcultural Collaborations, United States of America
Dedicated to the 40th Anniversary of World Rock Day and the 71st Anniversary of World Rock and...
Read Moreby Aleks Sierz | Jul 6, 2025 | Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
George Bernard Shaw is the supreme example of old writing. Maddeningly verbose, eye-poppingly...
Read Moreby Alexander Fatouros | Jul 6, 2025 | Directing, Interview, Los Angeles, New York, News, Theatre and Film, United States of America
Step into the opulent 1880s New York evoked by The Gilded Age, Julian Fellowes’ Emmy-winning HBO...
Read Moreby Duška Radosavljević | Jul 2, 2025 | Adaptation, Denmark, Review
Imagine Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, staged as a sort of salon game, in a real couple’s home serving as...
Read Moreby Yi-Ming Chen | Jun 28, 2025 | News, Taiwan, Theatre and Politics
In New York City, the window between May and June signals the arrival of Tony Awards season....
Read Moreby Alma Prelec | Jun 25, 2025 | Review, Spain, Transcultural Collaborations
Juan Mayorga’s Los yugoslavos [The Yugoslavs] is, to-date, the only one of the acclaimed Spanish...
Read Moreby Kuan-Ting Lin | Jun 24, 2025 | Interview, Playwriting, Taiwan
The World Sinophone Drama Competition for Young Playwrights is the largest playwriting contest in...
Read Moreby 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,...
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