September 2018 - The Theatre Times

The Language Of Secrecy In Brazilian Performance “Quaseilhas”

Posted by Aldri Anunciação | 30th Sep 2018 | Brazil, Dramaturgy, Review, South America, Theatre and Art

In times of cognitive arrogance in contemporary reception, Quaseilhas is guided by the language of...

“Free EU Roaming”: Adapting Catalan Referendum Into A Play

Posted by Armando Rotondi | 30th Sep 2018 | Adaptation, Devised Theatre, Festivals, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom

Presented at the Smock Alley Theatre for the last edition of the Dublin Fringe Festival, Free EU...

The Painter: An Allegory, By Lighting Designer Cory Pattak

Posted by Cory Pattak | 30th Sep 2018 | Design, Essay, United Kingdom

Light is elusive, mercurial, and ephemeral. It remains invisible to the eye until it collides with...

“Sounds And Sorcery Celebrating Disney Fantasia”: Art Installation Or Theatre?

Posted by Aida Rocci | 29th Sep 2018 | Dramaturgy, Immersive Theatre, London, Review, Theatre and Art, United Kingdom

Almost eighty years later the release of Fantasia, Sounds and Sorcery celebrates the iconic movie in an immersive production with ground-breaking technology.

Dawn King’s “Foxfinder” At The Ambassadors Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 28th Sep 2018 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom

Is appearing in the West End a rite of passage for Game Of Thrones stars? In the past couple of...

“I Was Most Alive With You” Pays Proper Tribute to The D/deaf Community

Posted by Madison Parrotta | 28th Sep 2018 | New York, Review, Theatre and Disability, United States of America

Playwrights Horizons’ production of I Was Most Alive With You by Craig Lucas was otherworldly in...

“Hong Kong Cool” By Hong Kong Ballet

Posted by Clement Lee | 27th Sep 2018 | Hong Kong, Review, Theatre and Art, Theatre and Dance

Hong Kong Ballet’s Hong Kong Cool showcases seven short pieces of new ballet works by...

Pulitzer-Prize Winning Play “The Gin Game” Returns To Hong Kong

Posted by Zolima Citymag | 27th Sep 2018 | Hong Kong, News, Theatre and Age

Why We Recommend it This widely-acclaimed play explores themes of loneliness, loss, helplessness,...

Out Of The Extraordinary: Women-Centered New Plays From India

Posted by Vikram Phukan | 26th Sep 2018 | India, LGBTQ+ Theatre, Review, Theatre and Gender

The characteristic middle-of-the-road sensibility of Akvarious Productions has found an outlet in...

“Heathers The Musical” Wildly Funny And In Deliciously Bad Taste

Posted by Sarah Carson | 26th Sep 2018 | London, Musical Theatre, Review, United Kingdom

Heathers The Musical Theatre Royal Haymarket, London ★★★ On its release in 1989, Heathers was an...

Stratford’s Production Of “Paradise Lost” Is A Stellar Achievement!

Posted by Jamie Portman | 26th Sep 2018 | Canada, Festivals, Review

STRATFORD, Ont. — That could well be a white lab coat that Lucy Peacock is wearing when she first...

B+ For Broadway Across Canada’s “School Of Rock”

Posted by Iris Winston | 26th Sep 2018 | Canada, Musical Theatre, Review

The great pity is that this high-energy rock musical is largely unintelligible. From flashing...

“Upstart Crow”: Shakespeare Sitcom Is Really Quite Educational

Posted by Sarah Dustagheer | 25th Sep 2018 | Education, Essay, Review, Theatre and Film, United Kingdom

Making Shakespeare relevant for contemporary society is often the work of theatre directors,...

“Abi” at The Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 25th Sep 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom

A couple of nights ago, I went, for the first time, to the Queen’s Theatre in Hornchurch, which is...

GCTC: Playwright Tracks The Tudors And Our Fascination With Sexual Power

Posted by Patrick Langston | 24th Sep 2018 | Canada, Review, Theatre and Gender

We can’t get enough of the Tudors, can we? From movies and historical fiction to the television...

4 Russian Theatre Performances To See In U.S. And UK Cinemas This Season

Posted by Alexandra Guzeva - Russia Beyond the Headlines | 23rd Sep 2018 | News, Russia, Russian Theatre Abroad

The Stage Russia project continues to bring classic novels by leading theaters to big screens...

Sarah Kane’s Controversial 1990s Play “Blasted” Feels Prescient In The #MeToo Era

Posted by Jana Perkovic | 23rd Sep 2018 | Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Gender

Playwright Sarah Kane was an “honorary lad” in in-yer-face drama that dominated the 1990s in...

Conversation With Élise Vigier, Director Of “Harlem Quartet”

Posted by Nicole Birmann Bloom | 22nd Sep 2018 | Adaptation, France, Interview

The 7th Edition of Seuls en scène, Princeton French Theater Festival presents Harlem...

A Performative View on Kafka’s “The Great Wall” by Paper Tiger Theatre Studio (Beijing)

Posted by Andreea Chirita | 22nd Sep 2018 | Adaptation, China, Essay

In May and August 2017, respectively, Theater der Welt in Hamburg and The Shanghai Ming...

Rob Roth’s “Soundstage” Fires Up Acoustic Imaginaries

Posted by KaiChieh Tu | 22nd Sep 2018 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, New York, Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America

oundstage, conceived by residency artist Rob Roth at HERE, is a compelling stream of consciousness that flows along with the sound waves and vintage film footage. With stunning technicality and poetic sensitivity, the show paints and composes the complex emotions when we are left alone, discarded and exiled into our most profound addictions and desires.