March 2019 - The Theatre Times

“Mumburger” At Off The WALL Productions (Carnegie, PA) And “The Double Threat Trio” At Pittsburgh CLO

Posted by Wendy Arons | 31st Mar 2019 | Pittsburgh, Review, The Pittsburgh Tatler, United States of America

Mumburger The tagline in the publicity for Sarah Kosar’s new play Mumburger reads “a surreal play...

Staging Difficult Pasts: “My Girl, My Little Girl” at Madrid’s Español Theatre

Posted by Maria Delgado | 31st Mar 2019 | Review, Spain

Carme Portacelli’s current season at the Español theatre has focused on stories about women by...

David Herskovits’ “Marjana And The Forty Thieves”

Posted by Abigail Weil | 31st Mar 2019 | Adaptation, New York, Review, United States of America

You know The Thousand And One Nights both better and worse than you realize. You may know it by a...

World Theatre Day 2019: On (Dis)Connection

Posted by Marié-Heleen Coetzee | 31st Mar 2019 | News, South Africa, Theatre and Politics

World Theatre Day reminds us that theatre offers a means through which to make meaning of our experiences in our historical, social and political contexts by storying and re-storying modes of human (dis)connection.

Any One Thing’s “Recollection”: Breaking The Threshold Of Immersive Theatre

Posted by Aida Rocci | 31st Mar 2019 | Immersive Theatre, London, Participatory Theatre, Review, United Kingdom

Recollection takes up to six participants in a thrilling journey about the importance of memories and personal data. Going beyond the sensational premise, the budding Any One Thing ambitiously explores the ideas of ‘personalized’ and ‘immersive’ theatre in depth, taking the genre to the boundaries of what is real.

A Skillful and Stirring One-Man Treatment of George Orwell’s “Animal Farm”

Posted by Lisa Harper Campbell | 31st Mar 2019 | Acting, Australia, Review

In a new one-man production, Renato Musolino brings George Orwell’s classic novella, Animal...

Brian Friel’s “Faith Healer” At The Odyssey Theatre

Posted by Christine Deitner | 30th Mar 2019 | Los Angeles, Review, United States of America

It is the Odyssey Theatre’s 50th Anniversary Season and in honor of this wonderful accomplishment the company starts off with an intimate and powerful bang with Brian Friel’s “Faith Healer” as directed by Ron Sossi, the company’s artistic director. In the program notes Mr. Sossi points out that though the theatre launched in 1969 and the play didn’t appear on the scene until the late 1970s, the play seems a “most apt prelude to the[ir] retrospective” season due to its innovative role in developing what we now know as the ‘monologue play’. It was also the first play the company performed when they opened their new/current space 30 years prior on S. Sepulveda Blvd in Los Angeles.

“El Coronel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba” At Harlem Stage

Posted by Abigail Weil | 30th Mar 2019 | Adaptation, New York, Review, United States of America

Creating riveting theater out of the problem of a bureaucratic oversight is no easy feat. Luckily...

ASSITEJ SA Announces 2019 Playwriting Contest Winner

Posted by Alexander Nderitu | 30th Mar 2019 | News, Playwriting, South Africa

Each playwright on the shortlist was paired with an expert from the international ASSITEJ network of professionals for online mentoring, coaching, and dramaturgy.

Homegrown: Occupy Festival

Posted by Duška Radosavljević | 30th Mar 2019 | Festivals, Participatory Theatre, Review, United Kingdom

Homegrown: Occupy Festival Battersea Arts Centre March 18 – April 12 When it comes to arts venues,...

Sasha Velour’s “Smoke & Mirrors”: Long Live The Queen

Posted by Abigail Weil | 29th Mar 2019 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, New York, Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America

Is Sasha Velour a drag queen? It’s debatable. She’s certainly a drag royalty, having won the ninth...

At the Barrow Group, “Perp” Is An Intimate, Challenging Look at Disability That Must Be Seen

Posted by Michael Appler | 29th Mar 2019 | New York, Review, Theatre and Disability, United States of America

We tend to think of disability as unlike other monuments of cultural identity, like race or...

“Love And Human Remains”: Excellent Production Explores Loneliness In The Modern World

Posted by Rajka Stefanovska | 29th Mar 2019 | Canada, Review

Love And Human Remains explores the everlasting questions of human existence–who we are, what we...

“La Reprise”: Startling Theatre And A Call To The Dead To Speak

Posted by Julian Meyrick | 29th Mar 2019 | Australia, Festivals, LGBTQ+ Theatre, Review, Switzerland

Review: La Reprise: Histoire(s) du théâtre, Adelaide Festival By chance, I happened to overhear a...

Hamilton Education Program on Broadway

Posted by Jack Wernick | 28th Mar 2019 | Education, News, Theatre and Politics, Theatre for Young Audiences, United States of America

Broadway’s Richard Rodgers Theatre is not only home to musical theatre sensation Hamilton but also...

Theatre Unleashed: Lauren Gunderson’s “Ada and the Engine” – A Must-See in Koreatown

Posted by Christine Deitner | 28th Mar 2019 | Los Angeles, Theatre and Gender, Theatre and Science, United States of America

es, it’s possible if not likely the play has simply conjured up all of this complexity of feeling and that nothing ever existed between Ada and Babbage beyond their shared vision. Yes, I know, there have been multiple instances over time where Ada’s contribution to the invention of the first computing machine has been questioned and tested and even dismissed.None of that matters, for the romantic liaison that Gunderson has crafted and Powers has brought to life delivers one of the loveliest and mature romantic moments I’ve seen on stage.