Thrown into the Deep End! A Participant’s Perspective from The Kennedy Center New Play Dramaturgy Intensive 2019
Students and early career dramaturgs were invited to The John F. Kennedy Center for Performing...
Read MorePosted by Elizabeth Leemann | 25th Oct 2019 | Dramaturgy, Essay, United States of America
Students and early career dramaturgs were invited to The John F. Kennedy Center for Performing...
Read MorePosted by Mert Dilek | 25th Oct 2019 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom
“Our family doesn’t get on,” sneers the eponymous matriarch of Maxim Gorky’s Vassa, now playing at...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 25th Oct 2019 | Adaptation, London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Adaptation is too banal a word to describe the cross-fertilization of theatre and other art forms....
Read MorePosted by Abigail Weil | 24th Oct 2019 | New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
As someone who has long been fascinated by both of the title characters, I am not sure who Murray...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 24th Oct 2019 | New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Jeremy O. Harris’s Slave Play is the New York theater’s scandal du saison. It’s a play about race...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 23rd Oct 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Sabrina Mahfouz is a British-Egyptian writer who has explored issues of Muslim and British...
Read MorePosted by Jack Wernick | 23rd Oct 2019 | Immersive Theatre, New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Multi-disciplinary hothouse The Cell in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood is currently home to...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 22nd Oct 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom
One of the delights of London fringe theatre is its ability to nurture new talent. In this respect...
Read MorePosted by Antonio Hernández | 22nd Oct 2019 | Germany, Review, Theatre and Opera
Summer in Europe is the time for performing art festivals. Avignon in France or Edinburgh in...
Read MorePosted by Christine Deitner | 22nd Oct 2019 | Los Angeles, Review, United States of America
“He who controls the present controls the past, and he who controls the past controls the...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 21st Oct 2019 | Japan, Musical Theatre, Review
Back in 1961, Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins’ Hollywood film West Side Story became something of a...
Read MorePosted by Zhanna Chernenko | 21st Oct 2019 | Belgium, Dramaturgy, Essay, Theatre and Dance
Peeping Tom is a theatre company founded in 2000 in Brussels by Gabriela Carrizo and Franck...
Read MorePosted by Aisling Murphy | 20th Oct 2019 | Austria, Review, Theatre and Art
Mental Eclipse Theater’s production of Sarah Kane’s Blasted is, admittedly, a mixed experience,...
Read MorePosted by Abigail Weil | 20th Oct 2019 | Acting, New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Henry Naylor’s Games, now at the SoHo Playhouse, highlights those human activities that are...
Read MorePosted by Zolima Citymag | 19th Oct 2019 | China, Hong Kong, Review, Theatre and Opera, Theatre and Politics
Three years before the Xiqu Centre opened as Hong Kong’s first purpose-built center for Chinese...
Read MorePosted by Irina Yakubovskaya | 19th Oct 2019 | Boston, Education, Interview, United States of America
Laurence Senelick, Fletcher Professor of Drama and Oratory Emeritus, is a theatre historian...
Read MorePosted by Emiliia Dementsova | 18th Oct 2019 | Festivals, News, Russia, Russian Theatre - Featured, Theatre Olympics 2019
The Olympics is a paradoxical phenomenon. On the one hand, it lives in a spirit of competition and...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 18th Oct 2019 | Japan, News
The title of Hideki Noda’s new play is Q: A Night At The Kabuki. The “Q” refers to British rock...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 18th Oct 2019 | Review, Theatre and Disability, United Kingdom
Playwright Peter Nichols died aged 92 last month, just before the opening of this starry West End...
Read MorePosted by John Brunner | 17th Oct 2019 | New York, Review, Theatre and Age, United States of America
Is the truth always best or should some secrets go to the grave? For playwright Paul David Young,...
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