ETC and Ukrainian Theatre: A Dialogue of Art, Change, and Support
As a mid-December snow fell over the city of Kyiv, Ukraine, the European Theatre Convention...
Read MoreLauren Dubowski is a theatre artist, producer, and scholar. She has written on the arts and culture for publications such as Culturebot, European Stages, and Words Without Borders and served as web managing editor for Theater magazine. Currently a Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism at Yale School of Drama, Lauren was also a Fulbright research fellow in Poland. With her contributions to The Theatre Times, she hopes to encourage global connections to Polish theatre, from its traditions to today.
Posted by Lauren Dubowski | 16th Apr 2019 | Germany, News, Producing, Theatre and Politics, Transcultural Collaborations, Ukraine
As a mid-December snow fell over the city of Kyiv, Ukraine, the European Theatre Convention...
Read MorePosted by Lauren Dubowski | 27th Mar 2018 | Divine Comedy Festival 2017, Essay, Festivals, Poland, Theatre and Politics
In December 2017, the Divine Comedy International Theatre Festival (Międzynarodowy Festiwal...
Read MorePosted by Lauren Dubowski | 15th Mar 2018 | News, Poland, Theatre and Art
During Tadeusz Kantor’s lifetime (1915-1990), his singular performances found their way to many...
Read MorePosted by Lauren Dubowski | 23rd Feb 2018 | Divine Comedy Festival 2017, Festivals, Poland, Theatre and Gender, Theatre and Politics
To probe the practices of both protest and theatre-making, Teatr Polski of Bydgoszcz looked to...
Read MorePosted by Lauren Dubowski | 11th Feb 2018 | Devised Theatre, Divine Comedy Festival 2017, Festivals, Poland, Review
The Polish production To The Depths or To The Bottom (Do Dna), which appeared at the 2017 Divine...
Read MorePosted by Lauren Dubowski | 27th Jan 2018 | Divine Comedy Festival 2017, Festivals, Playwriting, Poland, Review
Traditionally, the veil of a Polish bride—removed at the end of the ceremony to mark her passage...
Read MorePosted by Lauren Dubowski | 27th Dec 2017 | Design, Italy, Poland, Review, Theatre and Art
Three gramophones affixed to angular wooden boxes stood tall, almost animal-like, on wiry metal...
Read MorePosted by Lauren Dubowski | 17th May 2017 | News, Poland
The Polish Theatre in Poznan / The Jewish Theatre in Warsaw The Painted Bird, based on a novel by...
Read MorePosted by Lauren Dubowski | 25th Mar 2017 | Festivals, News, Poland, Theatre and Dance
From March 23 to 25, Warsaw’s Nowy Teatr, together with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, presented...
Read MorePosted by Lauren Dubowski | 9th Feb 2017 | Festivals, News, Poland
The International Divine Comedy Festival (Boska Komedia), in Kraków has grown, over nearly a...
Read MorePosted by Lauren Dubowski | 2nd Feb 2017 | Directing, News, Poland, Theatre and Gender
The French-Polish director Anna Smolar, born in 1980, was awarded the 2016 Polityka Passport in...
Read MorePosted by Lauren Dubowski | 8th Dec 2016 | News, Poland
Warsaw, The Centrala Theatre/Zachęta, National Gallery of Art: Orestes, directed by Michał Zadara...
Read MorePosted by Lauren Dubowski | 27th Nov 2016 | Adaptation, Essay, Festivals, Immersive Theatre, Poland, Review
It is noteworthy that the custom of banqueting the dead seems to be common to all pagan peoples,...
Read MorePosted by Lauren Dubowski | 11th Oct 2016 | Directing, News, Poland
Andrzej Wajda, the internationally renowned Polish film and theatre director and icon of the...
Read MorePosted by Lauren Dubowski | 2nd Oct 2016 | News, Poland
For the last several months, the Ester Rachel Kamińska and Ida Kamińska State Jewish Theater in...
Read MorePosted by Lauren Dubowski | 17th Sep 2016 | Directing, News, Poland, Polish Theatre Abroad, Review
The Brooklyn Academy of Music’s theatre season features two works by renowned Polish theatre...
Read MorePosted by Lauren Dubowski | 19th Aug 2016 | News, Poland
New and Noteworthy Productions Warsaw, TR Warszawa: https://trwarszawa.pl/ Marta...
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