June 2018 - Page 4 of 6 - The Theatre Times

10 Famous Russian Theaters Worth Visiting

Posted by Grigory Zaslavsky | 14th Jun 2018 | News, Russia

Russia Beyond asked a theater critic—who is also the president of a major drama school, the...

“The Strange Death Of John Doe” at The Hampstead Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 13th Jun 2018 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom

Regular air travel is a hassle. All that queuing, all that security, all those hot halls, and then...

Stratford’s “To Kill A Mockingbird” Unveils An Intriguing Atticus Finch

Posted by Jamie Portman | 13th Jun 2018 | Adaptation, Canada, Festivals, Review

STRATFORD, Ont.—It didn’t seem such a great idea 11 years ago when the Stratford Festival first...

Elizabeth Strout: “Nobody Was Even Remotely Interested In My Writing”

Posted by Alice Jones | 13th Jun 2018 | Adaptation, Books, Interview, London, United Kingdom

The story of Elizabeth Strout is one of creative faith and persistence. Growing up in Maine, “a...

The Second Breakfast Company’s “The Moon is Less Bright”: A New Phase

Posted by Eugene Koch | 12th Jun 2018 | Review, Singapore

The Second Breakfast Company restaging Goh Poh Seng’s The Moon is Less Bright is akin to grabbing...

“Fatherland” at The Lyric Hammersmith: Masculinity in Crisis

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 12th Jun 2018 | Documentary Theatre, London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom

Masculinity, whether toxic or in crisis (but never ever problem-free), is a hardy perennial...

When The Personal And Political Collide

Posted by Vikram Phukan | 12th Jun 2018 | India, LGBTQ+ Theatre, London, Review, United Kingdom

In his play, Contempt, queer activist and lawyer Danish Sheikh draws parallels (or contrasts)...

Open Letters To The Circus #3: Who Gets To Build The Future?

Posted by Sebastian Kann | 11th Jun 2018 | Belgium, Essay, Management

This is the third letter in a cycle of Open Letters To The Circus. This letter is written in the...

G Kumara Swamy: Dramatizing Traditions

Posted by Srivathsan Nadadhur | 11th Jun 2018 | India, Management, News

Founder of theatre group PlaneTG, G Kumara Swamy’s efforts in popularizing Telangana culture...

They Left Off Getting Carried Away: An Interview With Cássio Diniz Santiago And Till Wyler Von Ballmoos

Posted by Cássio Diniz Santiago and Till Wyler von Ballmoos | 10th Jun 2018 | Germany, Interview

Each day at 6 pm, performers Till Wyler von Ballmoos and Cássio Diniz Santiago opened the doors to...

Boston Lyric Opera’s “Trouble In Tahiti”

Posted by Katrina Holden-Buckley | 10th Jun 2018 | Boston, Review, Theatre and Opera, United States of America

Boston Lyric Opera truly transformed the North End’s DCR Steriti Ice Rink into a 1950s Cuban style...

Acclimatization: Feminist Iranian Theatre Acclimatizes To Diaspora

Posted by Marjan Moosavi | 9th Jun 2018 | Canada, Documentary Theatre, Iran, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Gender

Acclimatization refers to the process by which an individual organism adjusts to a change in its...

Modern Man’s Predicament: Nobel Laureate Gao Xingjian As A Tragic Playwright

Posted by Letizia Fusini | 8th Jun 2018 | China, Essay, Playwriting

The place of dramatic tragedy in the twentieth century was one of extreme ambiguity and...

Arlecchino Servitore Di Due Padroni: Seventy Years Of Strehler (And Counting)

Posted by Davide Cioffrese | 8th Jun 2018 | Acting, Essay, Italy

It is not easy to approach a work such as Giorgio Strehler’s Arlecchino Servitore Di Due...

Welcome To The Murder House

Posted by John Smythe | 8th Jun 2018 | New Zealand, Review, United States of America

In Welcome to the Murder House, Alfred’s story is told, in the popular vaudeville style of the day, by a group of prison inmates. For them, Southwick is a hero, given their shared belief that execution by electrocution will be more humane than hanging. And, as with the development of all high quality theatre, it takes a lot of trial and error to get it right.