About

TheTheatreTimes.com is an award-winning, non-partisan, global theatre portal. Since its launch in November 2016, TheTheatreTimes.com has published over 5,500 articles covering theatre in 90 countries and regions. With 32 thematic sections, more than 150 Regional Managing Editors, and over 60 international media partners, we have grown to be the most far-reaching and comprehensive global theatre portal today.

In addition to our original content, TheTheatreTimes.com filters through more than eighty sources, around six hundred articles, and thousands of pages of theatre news every day. Curating a steady stream of the top theatre information, TheTheatreTimes.com is a leading destination for theatre audiences and professionals worldwide.

Since we started, we have launched many innovative digital projects, including three Spotlight features: Spotlight on Poland, Spotlight on Russia, and Spotlight on China; and several special reports, including on the Impact of Covid-19 on Theatre Worldwide, Theatre and Decolonization, and Theatre and Artificial Intelligence.

We are also home to Performap.com – an Interactive Digital Map of Theatre Festivals, funded through Yale Digital Humanities Lab and LMDA Innovation Grant. Performap database currently lists 340 international theatre and performing arts festivals, searchable by date, location, and category.

In 2019, we teamed up with Digital Theatre+ to launch IOTF: The International Online Theatre Festival, an annual or bi-annual theatre streaming event. In 2023, IOTF partnered with the European Theatre Convention and Sustainable Theatre Alliance for a Green Environmental Shift (STAGES).  From 2019 to 2023, in all four editions of the festival, IOTF showcased 140 shows from 30 countries. In total, over 1 million people have participated in the festival. In 2021, IOTF won a second-place Culture Online International Award for “Best Online Project.”

A Theatre and Performance Studies Podcast  called us a “heroic project.”  And OnStageBlog hailed our IOTF as “the kaleidoscope and catalyst for global change.”

The fervor, innovation, and conversations exhibited through the festival’s global works should act as a beacon as we navigate forward; storytelling has and always will be a catalyst for community catharsis no matter the variance in subject matter or location. By bringing together different voices and perspectives in a digital sphere, The International Online Theatre Festival is a paradigm example of how the theatre community worldwide should and can continue using virtual platforms, streaming, archives, and sharing to foster discussion, magnification, and empathy across emotional and physical borders in a twenty-first-century world. – Natalie Rine, OnStageBlog

Selected Awards:

• 2025 The Webby Honoree in the Cultural Blog/Website category in the 29th Annual Webby Awards (chosen from nearly 13,000 entries).  Hailed as the “Internet’s highest honor” by The New York Times, The Webby Awards are presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS).
• 2024 ATHE-ASTR Award for Excellence in Digital Scholarship from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and the American Society for Theatre Research. Awarded to a team that demonstrates innovation and rigor in the use of electronic/digital media for the purpose of producing and disseminating knowledge about theatre and performance.
• 2021 The Culture Online International Award for “Best Online Project” for the International Online Theatre Festival (Second Place).  In 2021, a total of 452 projects were submitted from more than 20 countries.
• 2018 Elliott Hayes Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dramaturgy from Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA). 

TheTheatreTimes.com was founded in 2016 by Magda Romanska, Professor of Theatre and Performing Arts at Emerson College in Boston, and Beatriz Cabur, a theatre director and playwright living in London and working worldwide. Since 2018, it has been under the leadership of Magda Romanska and Kasia Lech, Associate Professor of Global Performance History at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

To read more about our mission, click here.