Kyoto Experiment Autumn 2016
Kyoto Experiment, or the Kyoto International Performing Arts Festival, will be held for the...
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Read MorePosted by Malini Nair | 16th Oct 2016 | India, Review
After two decades, the fascinating ceremony of a 41-day Sanskrit play performed as a ritual...
Read MorePosted by Marjan Moosavi | 16th Oct 2016 | Essay, Iran
Muharram, the first month of the Islamic (lunar) calendar, coinciding this year with the seventh...
Read MorePosted by Hugh Montgomery | 15th Oct 2016 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Shopping and Fucking was the most iconic play of the 1990s. As it is revived, 20 years on, we look...
Read MorePosted by Peter Davis | 15th Oct 2016 | This Week in Theatre History
On October 17 in 1777, British General John Burgoyne lost the Battle of Saratoga, surrendering...
Read MorePosted by Ulrike Kahle-Steinweh | 15th Oct 2016 | Design, Essay, Germany
Katrin Brack and Barbara Ehnes, two set designers, have influenced and even changed the theatre....
Read MorePosted by Marjan Moosavi | 15th Oct 2016 | Interview, Iran, Playwriting
Acclaimed Iranian playwright Mohammad Yaghoubi was in Toronto directing the Canadian premiere of...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 15th Oct 2016 | Dramaturgy, Essay, Italy, Playwriting
“While Italy this year is celebrating 150 years as a single nation state, in many fields any sense of unity is still tenuous. Theatre and contemporary playwriting are no exceptions to this rule.” – Margaret Rose
Read MorePosted by The Theatre Times | 14th Oct 2016 | New York, News, Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America
The Seedling Project is an original play inspired by the true stories of women and men as they...
Read MorePosted by Cátia Faísco | 14th Oct 2016 | Portugal, Review
Grandma Cândida died some months ago, and her grandson, the Portuguese playwright Tiago Rodrigues,...
Read MorePosted by Nora Amin | 13th Oct 2016 | Adaptation, Applied Theatre, Egypt, Essay
It was September 2012 that I had decided to stage An Enemy of the People, by Henrik Ibsen. A play...
Read MorePosted by Eva Miranda and Katy Serudo | 12th Oct 2016 | Brazil, Festivals, News
During the Rio 2016 Olympic Games season, the Centro de Artes Cênicas (Performing Arts Center) of...
Read MorePosted by Dorothea Marcus | 12th Oct 2016 | Essay, Germany, Theatre and Politics
On the German stage refugees are still often the authentic narrators of their fate, directed by...
Read MorePosted by The Theatre Times | 12th Oct 2016 | News, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Sarah Ruhl’s new play Scenes from Court Life, or the whipping boy and his prince, premiered...
Read MorePosted by Martha Steketee | 12th Oct 2016 | Dramaturgy, News
Dramaturgs have always been part of each team working at PlayPenn. But since 2012, its...
Read MorePosted by Olisa. TV | 12th Oct 2016 | News, Nigeria, Theatre and Gender
In anticipation of the International Day for the Girl Child, the Performing Arts Workshop and...
Read MorePosted by Mary Barnard | 12th Oct 2016 | Essay, Peru
How to determine which works of theatre belong in a canon is a perennial question, especially...
Read MorePosted by Diana Damian Martin | 11th Oct 2016 | London, News, United Kingdom
Performance festival Steakhouse Live returns for 2016 with a beefier line-up and a new embedded...
Read MorePosted by Lauren Dubowski | 11th Oct 2016 | Directing, News, Poland
Andrzej Wajda, the internationally renowned Polish film and theatre director and icon of the...
Read MorePosted by Sébastien Hendrickx | 10th Oct 2016 | Belgium, Directing, Review
On Mount Olympus (Jan Fabre/Troubleyn): To glorify the cult of tragedy ‘Breathe, just breathe....
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