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Bridging Worlds: Bahram Beyzaie’s “Naqqali Trilogy” Wins The 2024 ASTR Translation Award Prize

Posted by Diana Fathi | 3rd Mar 2025 | Books, Iran, Playwriting, Translation

In November, the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) awarded the 2024 Translation Prize...

Mark Rosenblatt’s Giant at the Royal Court: Provocative Drama About Anti-Semitism Is A Superb Play Of Ideas

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 7th Oct 2024 | Books, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom

Roald Dahl evokes mixed feelings. He’s one of the greatest children’s storytellers, whose macabre...

Lolita Chakrabarti’s Hamnet at the Garrick Theatre: Pedestrian Adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s Bestseller About Shakespeare’s Wife and Son

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 23rd Oct 2023 | Adaptation, Books, London, Review, United Kingdom

Why are stage adaptations of bestselling novels so disappointing? Okay, I appreciate the...

How I Reunited the Most Important Documents in English Theater History for the First Time in 200 Years

Posted by Grace J. Ioppolo | 27th Nov 2022 | Books, Education, Essay, United Kingdom

Most of what we know about the beginnings of English professional theater as a financial...

Happy Birthday, Dracula!

Posted by Lisa Monde | 14th Nov 2022 | Adaptation, Books, Essay, Musical Theatre

Dedicated to the 125th anniversary of the legendary hero of the famous gothic novel “Dracula”,...

Chennai Theatre Veteran PC Ramakrishna Turns Author with “Find Your Voice”

Posted by Gowri S | 20th Jun 2022 | Acting, Books, India, News

Theatre veteran PC Ramakrishna turns author with Find Your Voice, a guide on how to navigate a...

From the Moscow Stage to Monroe and De Niro: How the Method Defined 20th-Century Acting

Posted by Adrian Danks | 5th Jun 2022 | Acting, Books, Essay, United States of America

When an actor is criticized for peculiarly excessive preparation for a role, or an inability to...

Review: An Inconvenient Black History of British Musical Theatre (1900-1950)

Posted by Trevor Boffone | 27th Oct 2021 | Books, Musical Theatre, United Kingdom

The Boy Friend. Oliver!. Cats. Blood Brothers. The Phantom of the Opera. Les Miserables. Billy...

Shakespeare’s Rulers and Generals Are All Flawed, but the Books on His Leadership Lessons Keep Coming

Posted by Robert White | 7th Jul 2021 | Australia, Books

John Bell’s new book Some Achieve Greatness is but the latest to use Shakespeare’s works to...

“New Dramaturgies:” Insights Into Mark Bly’s Playwriting Exercises. Interview with Mark Bly

Posted by Mary Davies | 4th Apr 2020 | Books, Dramaturgy, Interview, Playwriting, United States of America

Mark Bly is an American dramaturg, editor, and lecturer. He was the chair of the MFA Playwriting...

Stripping and Getting Personal: Catharsis and Medical Performance

Posted by Alex Mermikides | 31st Jan 2020 | Books, London, Theatre and Science, United Kingdom

This excerpt is taken from the concluding chapter of Performance, Medicine and the Human, a book...

The Cadence of Spoken Word

Posted by Vikram Phukan | 24th Jan 2020 | Books, India, Theatre and Politics

All India Forward Bloc architect, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and his equally illustrious elder...

Force Decisions: A Citizen’s Guide to How Police Determine Appropriate Use of Force by Rory Miller – A Book Review from a Fightaturgy Perspective

Posted by Meron Langsner | 14th Aug 2019 | Books, Dramaturgy, Stage Combat

I have written elsewhere on recommended reading for early-career fight directors, and I would like...

Theatre That Changed My Life: “Foreign Goods” Authors Share Their Stories

Posted by Oberon Books | 14th Jan 2019 | Books

As we come to the end of 2018, it feels like it’s been a stand-out year for diaspora East and...

Sheetala Bhat Documents The Lives Of Female Performers In Colonial India

Posted by Abhimanyu Acharya | 11th Dec 2018 | Books, India, Theatre and Decolonization, Theatre and Gender

Sheetala Bhat’s Performing Self, Performing Gender: Reading The Lives Of Women Performers In...

For The Love of Theatre–How The First Black Othello Changed My Life

Posted by Oberon Books | 3rd Dec 2018 | Books, United Kingdom

Producer and Editor Titilola Dawudu talks about the moment that inspired her love of theatre, and...

“European Cultural Identity” By Enzo Balboni And Annamaria Cascetta: Law, History, Theatre, And Art

Posted by Armando Rotondi | 3rd Dec 2018 | Books

Published in the Canon Of European Drama series for Edizioni ETS, European Cultural Identity. Law,...

Four Directors Give Four Reasons To Be Graeae

Posted by Natasha Sutton Williams | 24th Jul 2018 | Books, Directing, Theatre and Disability, United Kingdom

To mark the launch of Graeae’s new book, Reasons to Be Graeae, which charts the history of the...

Karnad’s New Historical Play To Hit The Stands This Independence Day

Posted by Muralidhara Khajane | 17th Jul 2018 | Books, India, Playwriting

Rakshasa-Tangadi centers around the Battle of Talikota. Girish Karnad’s much-anticipated play that...

Simon Callow On Legendary Play Agent Peggy Ramsay

Posted by Simon Callow | 15th Jul 2018 | Books, Essay, Playwriting, United Kingdom

Peggy Ramsay (1908-1991) was the foremost play agent of her time. Her list of clients shows her to...

Books

Bridging Worlds: Bahram Beyzaie’s “Naqqali Trilogy” Wins The 2024 ASTR Translation Award Prize

Mark Rosenblatt’s Giant at the Royal Court: Provocative Drama About Anti-Semitism Is A Superb Play Of Ideas

Lolita Chakrabarti’s Hamnet at the Garrick Theatre: Pedestrian Adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s Bestseller About Shakespeare’s Wife and Son

How I Reunited the Most Important Documents in English Theater History for the First Time in 200 Years

Happy Birthday, Dracula!

Chennai Theatre Veteran PC Ramakrishna Turns Author with “Find Your Voice”

From the Moscow Stage to Monroe and De Niro: How the Method Defined 20th-Century Acting

Review: An Inconvenient Black History of British Musical Theatre (1900-1950)

Shakespeare’s Rulers and Generals Are All Flawed, but the Books on His Leadership Lessons Keep Coming

“New Dramaturgies:” Insights Into Mark Bly’s Playwriting Exercises. Interview with Mark Bly

Stripping and Getting Personal: Catharsis and Medical Performance

The Cadence of Spoken Word

Force Decisions: A Citizen’s Guide to How Police Determine Appropriate Use of Force by Rory Miller – A Book Review from a Fightaturgy Perspective

Theatre That Changed My Life: “Foreign Goods” Authors Share Their Stories

Sheetala Bhat Documents The Lives Of Female Performers In Colonial India

For The Love of Theatre–How The First Black Othello Changed My Life

“European Cultural Identity” By Enzo Balboni And Annamaria Cascetta: Law, History, Theatre, And Art

Four Directors Give Four Reasons To Be Graeae

Simon Callow On Legendary Play Agent Peggy Ramsay

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