September 2021 - The Theatre Times

Review: “UnTuned” (Golvareh)

Posted by Trevor Abes | 30th Sep 2021 | Canada, Festivals, Iran, Review

It’s hard to prepare for life’s high and lows when you think too highly of yourself to expect...

“The Time of Our Singing” Opera Tackles Racial Segregation

Posted by French Press Agency (AFP) | 29th Sep 2021 | Adaptation, Belgium, Review, Theatre and Opera

Based on an American novel detailing the country’s troubled 20th century, the new Belgian...

Family Drama Hits Close to Home for Keito Okamoto

Posted by Nobuko Tanaka | 28th Sep 2021 | Interview, Japan, Translation

When Keito Okamoto was offered the title role in French dramatist Florian Zeller’s latest work,...

Bess Wohl’s “Camp Siegfried” at the Old Vic: Powerfully Chilling and Resonant

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 27th Sep 2021 | Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom

Are we too obsessed with Nazism? Apart from countless television programs which revisit that grim...

If You See a Dragon Coming, You Pull a Sword: Interview with Robert Wilson

Posted by Panni Néder | 26th Sep 2021 | Festivals, Hungary, Interview, Theatre and Politics

He supports the Freeszfe Association and condemns the curtailment of artistic freedom. We asked...

Ken Reynolds: 1938–2021. A Personal and Professional Remembrance of East European Theatre’s Finest Photographer

Posted by John Freedman | 25th Sep 2021 | News, Russia, Theatre and Art, United Kingdom

“Stop now! See that? You see that cloud? That beautiful shape?” That is what Ken Reynolds would...

A Festival that We Need: FOLDA – Festival of Live Digital Arts

Posted by Stefan Dzeparoski | 24th Sep 2021 | Canada, Festivals, News

As the theatre world in Canada and the US anxiously expects the final re-opening of Broadway and...

New Deal for Broadway: NYC Theater Luminaries Agree on Reforms

Posted by Associated Press | 23rd Sep 2021 | New York, News, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

Following a summit of industry leaders organized by Black Theatre United earlier this year, a...

Kenya’s New Theatre Awards

Posted by Alexander Nderitu | 22nd Sep 2021 | Festivals, Kenya, News

The Kenya Theatre Awards seek to fill these two gaps by tracking and watching all performances in the country and providing data and statistics on the number of venues, performances staged, people watching performances in the country. This will be achieved by the Jury and technical team of the Awards who will work in partnership with theatre venues, producers and theatre companies.

Fringe Theatre Reaches Global Scale with Digital Platform

Posted by REUTERS | 21st Sep 2021 | Australia, Festivals, News

A new age of digital theatre is rising on the horizon, and its dawn is being accelerated by the...

Divas Are Forever: Marina Abramović’s “7 Deaths of Maria Callas”

Posted by Marisa C. Hayes | 20th Sep 2021 | Festivals, France, Review, Theatre and Opera, Transmedia

Does a diva ever really die? It’s a fitting question from the reigning queen of endurance art,...

Art Alert: Egyptian Silent Theatre Show “Halawes” to Premiere at Al-Hanager

Posted by Eslam Omar | 20th Sep 2021 | Adaptation, Egypt, News

By making his 12-year-old dream come true, director Mohmed Abdalla aims to send a message of hope...

Playing with “White is Purity” in Pirandello’s “Comme tu me veux”

Posted by Lara Cox | 19th Sep 2021 | France, Review, Theatre and Art

In 2017, the cosmetics company Nivea released an advert that was promptly pulled: a white woman’s...

Veteran Thespian Launches Collection of Original Plays

Posted by Alexander Nderitu | 18th Sep 2021 | Kenya, News, Playwriting

“We have in essence what could be the most beautiful country in the world, we have great weather, we have friendlier people than I have met travelling elsewhere, and every seven years or so, somebody gives us an order and we sharpen our machetes and putting things alight! For those of us of a certain sensibility, this is stupid and what can we do about it? I knew I didn’t want to be the MP of my rural home area but I could write plays…”