4 Plays that Dramatize the Kidnapping of Children During Wars
Since February 2022, Western and Ukrainian media have reported on the kidnapping and forced...
Read MoreMagda Romanska is a writer, dramaturg and theatre, performance and media scholar. Her research focuses on theatre and globalization, the intersection of theatre, media, and technology, including digital and multiplatform dramaturgy, human-AI interaction in performance, the ethics, and representation of human enhancements, and posthuman theatre and performance. A graduate of Stanford’s honors program, and of Cornell’s doctoral program in Theatre, Film and Dance, she is an Associate Professor of Theatre and Dramaturgy at Emerson College in Boston, MA, a Research Associate at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University. Her past books and publications cover the areas of post-traumatic theatre, a theory of comedy, and dramaturgy. She is the author or editor of four critically acclaimed theatre books, including The Post-traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor, Reader in Comedy: An Anthology of Theory and Criticism (co-edited with Alan Ackerman); and The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy, a leading handbook of dramaturgy. Her fifth book, TheaterMachine: Tadeusz Kantor in Context(co-edited with Kathleen Cioffi) is forthcoming from NUP. She is also the sole editor of a ten-volume series Focus on Dramaturgy from Routledge. She has served on the editorial boards of Theater magazine, the Yale Journal of Law and Humanities, Diacritics: A Review Journal of Criticism and Theory, Journal of Law and Theatre, and Polish Theatre Perspectives. She was also a founding editor of Palimpsest: Yale Literary and Arts Magazine, which was featured in Print Magazine’s Regional Design Annual and chosen from among over twenty thousand entries. Her editorials and theatre reviews have been published in The LA Review of Books, The Boston Globe, Hot Review, and The Cosmopolitan Review. She has taught over 30 courses on theatre, performance and transmedia, including at Harvard University, Yale School of Drama, Cornell University, and Emerson College. She has also worked on over 30 theatre and opera productions as either dramaturg, playwright, or director, and she has served as the resident dramaturg for the Boston Lyric Opera. MagdaRomanska.com
Posted by Magda Romanska | 23rd Nov 2022 | Adaptation, Essay, Theatre and Politics
Since February 2022, Western and Ukrainian media have reported on the kidnapping and forced...
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The #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements have forced Hollywood and other artists and filmmakers...
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Disclaimer: I was Jeremy’s teacher at Yale during the time he wrote Slave Play, so this isn’t a...
Read MorePosted by Magda Romanska | 1st Jul 2019 | Essay, Poland, Transmedia
We are republishing this article from 2012 to remember Boguslaw Schaeffer who died today….He...
Read MorePosted by Magda Romanska | 29th Apr 2018 | Devised Theatre, New York, Polish Theatre Abroad, Review, United States of America
The Wooster Group’s newest production, A Pink Chair (In Place of a Fake Antique), was...
Read MorePosted by Magda Romanska | 27th Mar 2018 | Essay, Poland
Today, we are launching The Spotlight on Poland. Here’s the context….. Following the fall of the...
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TheTheatreTimes.com is a non-partisan, volunteer-based, global portal for theatre news. With an...
Read MorePosted by Magda Romanska | 18th Jul 2015 | Essay, Theatre and Disability
The connection between humor and disability is perhaps one of the most challenging and...
Read MorePosted by Magda Romanska | 4th Mar 2015 | Essay, Poland, Polish Theatre Abroad, Theatre and Opera
Polish classical musicians and opera singers have always enjoyed global renown, with singers such...
Read MorePosted by Magda Romanska | 16th Jun 2014 | Interview, Theatre and Science, United States of America
Roald Hoffmann was born in 1937 in Złoczów, Poland. Having survived the German Nazi occupation, in...
Read MorePosted by Magda Romanska | 6th May 2014 | Directing, Essay, Poland
Although historically Polish theatre has gained worldwide renown predominantly thanks to its male...
Read MorePosted by Magda Romanska | 28th Jan 2014 | Dramaturgy, Interview, Theatre and Opera, United States of America
BLO: What is a dramaturg? MR: In its broadest and earliest definition, dramaturgy means a...
Read MorePosted by Magda Romanska | 6th May 2013 | Essay, Management, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Mitt Romney’s offhanded crusade against Big Bird, announced in a presidential debate with...
Read MorePosted by Magda Romanska | 2nd Oct 2012 | Review, Theatre and Disability, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
During the ten years of its run, when asked what I thought of Mabou Mines’s Dollhouse, I’ve always...
Read MorePosted by Magda Romanska | 19th Feb 2012 | Essay, Poland, Transmedia
Polish theatre has gained world renown thanks to its innovative and bold experimental style. In...
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