March 2019 - Page 5 of 6 - The Theatre Times

“Superhoe” at The Royal Court: Nicôle Lecky’s One-Woman Debut

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 7th Mar 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom

Titles matter: they send out messages. So, in the current #MeToo climate, isn’t it a bit...

Using Theatre To Promote Positive Mental Health

Posted by Mary Moynihan, Niamh Clowry, and Féilim James | 7th Mar 2019 | Ireland, News, Theatre and Disability

The link between creative expression and positive mental health has been known for quite some time...

Love N’ Courage Gala At TNC

Posted by Jack Wernick | 6th Mar 2019 | News, United States of America

The Players Club was the location of the recent annual Theater for the New City gala titled “Love N’ Courage”.

In “Kwongkan,” Indian And Australian Performers Convey An Urgent Climate Change Message

Posted by Vivienne Glance | 6th Mar 2019 | Australia, Festivals, Review, Transcultural Collaborations

Review: Kwongkan, Perth Festival 2019 “Kwongkan” means sand in the language of the Nyoongar...

“Bodies” at The Southwark Playhouse

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 6th Mar 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom

James Saunders is one of British theatre’s forgotten playwrights. Although he wrote some 70 plays...

“Ajijaak On Turtle Island”: New York Stories Old And New

Posted by Abigail Weil | 6th Mar 2019 | New York, Puppetry, Review, Theatre for Young Audiences, Transcultural Collaborations, United States of America

On a recent Sunday afternoon, at the New Victory Theater, timelines collided. The New Vic, founded...

“How To Rule The World” Is A Biting And Urgent Satire Of Australian Politics–That Feels All Too Real

Posted by Leigh Boucher | 5th Mar 2019 | Australia, Review, Sydney, Theatre and Politics

How To Rule The World is Indigenous playwright Nakkiah Lui’s critical riposte to the intellectual...

Finding Something To Hold Onto: A Conversation About Art+Community

Posted by Jeremy Stoller | 5th Mar 2019 | Applied Theatre, Interview, United States of America

Playwright Chisa Hutchinson’s Surely Goodness And Mercy follows 12-year-old Tino, an orphan...

On Teaching Directing: The Essential Five

Posted by Fadi Fayad Skeiker | 5th Mar 2019 | Directing, United States of America

After teaching directing for several years, across the globe and at different kinds of...

At Roundabout, Can “Merrily” Still Roll Along, Reimagined?

Posted by Michael Appler | 5th Mar 2019 | Musical Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America

Fiasco Theater has dared to tempt fate yet again with Merrily, staging a buoyant, light-on-its-feet reimagining that’s stripped the musical of its original clutter, aiming, instead, for the story’s thematic heart.

Robert Lepage’s “887” at the Hong Kong Arts Festival

Posted by Clement Lee | 4th Mar 2019 | Canada, Festivals, Hong Kong, Review

Theatre as a memory vessel is nothing new to contemporary theatre. There is a reason why types of...

Undercurrents Festival: Bark And Lots Of Bite

Posted by Patrick Langston | 4th Mar 2019 | Canada, Festivals, News

Raising Stanley/Life with Tulia Hard to fathom, but there are actually people who aren’t mad about...

“The Gun Show (Can We Talk About This?)” At Quantum Theatre In Pittsburgh, PA

Posted by Wendy Arons | 4th Mar 2019 | Pittsburgh, Review, The Pittsburgh Tatler, United States of America

While there are several guns conjured to the imagination in EM Lewis’s one-person play The Gun...

“The Legend Of Georgia McBride” At Barebones Productions In Pittsburgh, PA

Posted by Wendy Arons | 4th Mar 2019 | Pittsburgh, Review, The Pittsburgh Tatler, United States of America

Unless you are somehow immune to the infectious pleasures of a good drag show, I’m willing to...

The Emerging Zeitgeist: Indian Theatre of the Moment

Posted by Vikram Phukan | 4th Mar 2019 | Festivals, News, Worldwide

The nominations for this year’s Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards (META) were formally...

“Buxi Jagabandhu” A Story Of A Fearless Warrior

Posted by Diwan Singh Bajeli | 4th Mar 2019 | Festivals, India, Review

Staged at the 20th Bharat Rang Mahotsav, Buxi Jagabandhu showcased the heroic resistance of Odia...

Barcelona Meeting On Independent And Non-Institutionalised Theatres: A Short Report

Posted by Armando Rotondi | 4th Mar 2019 | News, Review, Transcultural Collaborations

It was a great success the first Barcelona Meeting on Independent and Non-Institutionalised...

When Poetry Is The Protagonist: “Lugones,” The Lord Of All The Words

Posted by Mayra Ortiz Rodríguez | 3rd Mar 2019 | Argentina, Playwriting, Review

Traditional literary analysis has focused on a tripartite division of genres as if they were...

World Premiere Of Completed Lorca Play: “The Dream Of Life” Opens In Madrid

Posted by Maria Delgado | 3rd Mar 2019 | Review, Spain

One of the highlights of Lluís Pasqual’s years at the helm of Madrid’s Centro Dramático Nacional...

Ravi Jain’s “Prince Hamlet”: A Meta-theatrical Reversal Of Disability And Gender

Posted by Abhimanyu Acharya and Sheetala Bhat | 2nd Mar 2019 | Canada, Review, Theatre and Disability

Why Not Theatre’s Prince Hamlet, adapted and directed by Ravi Jain, is a performative exploration of the relationship between aesthetics and disability. Prince Hamlet is a gender-bent, bilingual play which uses English and American Sign Language (ASL).