November 2018 - Page 2 of 5 - The Theatre Times

How To Breathe Soul Into A Machine! A Plea For More Digital Tenderness

Posted by Christian Römer | 23rd Nov 2018 | Germany, News, Transmedia

The digital age! (…) Can we turn it off? Real people want to see real people! The voices from...

“OnlyHuman” At Danspace Project

Posted by Abigail Weil | 22nd Nov 2018 | New York, Review, Theatre and Dance, United States of America

In the celebratory cookbook Cake, Maira Kalman writes: “When we lived in Rome we had a party...

Don DeLillo’s “Love-Lies-Bleeding” At The Coronet Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 22nd Nov 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom

Plays about old age are also often plays about death. This is certainly true of American novelist...

Examining Gender Issues Through An Ancient Myth: 27 Degrees’ “Medusa” At Crypt Gallery

Posted by Haylin Cai | 22nd Nov 2018 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom

In Greek and Roman mythology, Medusa the Gorgon is a hideous, monstrous woman with snakes in place...

“Sweat” at the Pittsburgh Public Theater

Posted by Wendy Arons | 22nd Nov 2018 | The Pittsburgh Tatler

I’ve expressed in previous posts my impression that certain recent plays – among them, Hir and The...

Berlin: Governing A “Creative” City

Posted by Friederike Landau | 21st Nov 2018 | Essay, Germany, Producing, Theatre and Politics

Advocacy for the arts has been one of the central topics of the meetings and research activities...

Stan Lai: Between Laughter And Tears

Posted by Clarissa Oon | 21st Nov 2018 | Review, Taiwan, Transcultural Collaborations

Part of the Asian Theatremakers series At the height of the fear and panic caused by the SARS...

Festival Des Francophonies En Limousin. International Francophone Theatre In All Its Diversity

Posted by Alvina Ruprecht | 21st Nov 2018 | Festivals, France, News

This new international festival in Limoges created in 1984 by Pierre DeBauche after the Avignon...

Belonging In A “Creative” City

Posted by Friederike Landau and Christophe Knoch | 20th Nov 2018 | Essay, Germany, Producing, Theatre and Politics

Advocacy for the arts has been one of the central topics of the meetings and research activities...

Tom Stoppard’s “The Hard Problem” Looks for Humanity in Human Consciousness

Posted by Michael Appler | 20th Nov 2018 | New York, Review, United States of America

Stoppard has sought to lower the stage into the depths of the human mind, endeavoring to see the theater as a proxy for human consciousness, an outlet whose own bizarre corruptions of life are but well-directed reflections of our own conscious turmoil.

Yukio Ninagawa, The Architect Of Cultural Crossroads

Posted by Corrie Tan | 20th Nov 2018 | Directing, Essay, Japan

Part of the Asian Theatremakers series I met the late Japanese director Yukio Ninagawa in 2013...

(LA)Phil/The Industry Flexes Fluxus With Cage’s “Europeras”

Posted by Lauren Deutsch | 19th Nov 2018 | Festivals, Los Angeles, Review, Theatre and Opera, United States of America

John Cage’s Europera 1 and Europera 2, (aka Europeras 1 & 2) was presented by The...

“Fun Home”: An Extraordinary Musical

Posted by Jane Baldwin | 19th Nov 2018 | Boston, LGBTQ Theatre, Musical Theatre, Review, United States of America

Fun Home, the multi-Tony award winning musical is making its Boston début at SpeakEasy and a fine...

Invertigo Dance Theatre Company: A Conversation With Laura Karlin And Sofia Klass

Posted by Elisa Rocha | 18th Nov 2018 | Interview, Los Angeles, Theatre and Dance, Theatre and Disability, United States of America

Invertigo Dance Theatre is a provocative and passionate dance company based in Los Angeles. Laura...

An Interview With Playwright Alexis Roblan

Posted by Grace Power | 18th Nov 2018 | Interview, New York, Playwriting, United States of America

Alexis Roblan graduated from the University of Southern California’s MFA in Dramatic Writing...

“The Drowning Girls”: A Story Of Misogyny And Murder

Posted by Patrick Langston | 18th Nov 2018 | Canada, Immersive Theatre, Review

There’s not much on the stage. Three bathtubs, a metal dress form and shower head hanging above...

Dystopian Fairy Tale: Faezeh Jalali Adapts Vineet Bhalla’s Award Winning Play, “A Farming Story,” For The Mumbai Stage

Posted by Vikram Phukan | 18th Nov 2018 | Adaptation, Directing, India

The prolific theatremaker Faezeh Jalali has once again emerged from a strenuous and demanding...

A Tragedy With A Happy Ending: “The Emperor And The Concubine” By The China National Peking Opera Company At London’s Sadler’s Wells

Posted by Letizia Fusini | 17th Nov 2018 | China, London, Review, United Kingdom

The long-term collaboration between the China National Peking Opera Company (Guojia jingju yuan)...

Going To War And Making Revolution At The Bâtard Festival

Posted by Rathsaran Sireekan | 17th Nov 2018 | Belgium, Festivals, Review, Theatre and Politics

Cezary Goes To War by Cezary Tomaszewksi and Tell Me About The Revolution by Farbod Fathinejadfard...

Kampala International Theatre Festival, 2018 Edition

Posted by Alexander Nderitu | 17th Nov 2018 | Festivals, News, Transcultural Collaborations, Uganda

The venue is the Uganda Museum and performances from Kenya, India, Iran, UK, USA and the host nation will be staged. Below are teasers of some of the scheduled performances.