Disability in Comic and Tragic Frames
The connection between humor and disability is perhaps one of the most challenging and...
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 Catherine Grant and Matthew Harper | 12th Jul 2015 | Australia, Cambodia, Essay, Theatre and Politics, Transcultural Collaborations
What we really need in this capitalist, power-driven, exploitative, consumerist world, according...
Read MorePosted by Peter Tregear | 5th Jul 2015 | Essay, London, Theatre and Opera, United Kingdom
As an art form routinely accused of contemporary irrelevancy, opera rarely makes headline news....
Read MorePosted by Maria Pilatowicz | 18th Jun 2015 | Essay, Los Angeles, Poland, Polish Theatre Abroad
“Does anyone still read Jan Kott?” asked Michael Billington, theatre critic, in his article in The...
Read MorePosted by Aleena Karim | 18th Jun 2015 | Essay, Playwriting, Russia
Aleena Karim interviews John Freedman, an acclaimed American critic, translator and playwright, on...
Read MorePosted by Agnieszka Tworek | 12th Jun 2015 | Directing, Essay, Poland
Today, Monique Stalens often directs her theater adaptations of Gombrowicz and Witkacy in Polish,...
Read MorePosted by Amelia Parenteau | 19th May 2015 | Essay, New York, Theatre and Gender, Translation, United States of America
Our correspondent Amelia Parenteau attended a “consciousness-raising” discussion of...
Read MorePosted by Olesya Khantsevich | 7th May 2015 | Essay, Russia, Theatre and Disability
A play staged by Moscow’s Theater of Nations has become the first theatrical production in Russia...
Read MorePosted by Julian Meyrick | 30th Apr 2015 | Australia, Dramaturgy, Essay, Playwriting
This is a long-read essay, the third in a series on playwriting and drama by Julian Meyrick. Read...
Read MorePosted by Amelia Parenteau | 29th Apr 2015 | Essay, New York, Theatre and Politics, Transmedia, United States of America
The evening that I saw Red Wednesday by Built for Collapse at the LaGuardia Performing Arts...
Read MorePosted by Ania Aizman | 22nd Apr 2015 | Essay, Russia, Theatre and Politics
As the government continues to censor and cancel Russian theater performances, a group of artists...
Read MorePosted by Julian Meyrick | 14th Apr 2015 | Dramaturgy, Essay, North America
This is a long-read essay, the second in a series on playwriting and drama by Julian Meyrick. Part...
Read MorePosted by Denis Flannery | 10th Apr 2015 | Adaptation, Essay, United Kingdom
I’m not sure many saw David Bowie’s latest creative project coming. It was recently announced that...
Read MorePosted by John Drakakis | 9th Apr 2015 | Adaptation, Essay, London, United Kingdom
The announcement that a play about Jimmy Savile is to be staged in London this summer has raised...
Read MorePosted by Julian Meyrick | 8th Apr 2015 | Australia, Essay, Playwriting
We all know whether a given play, film or TV drama “works” or not, but it’s often difficult to...
Read MorePosted by Ania Aizman | 4th Apr 2015 | Essay, Russia
On April 1st, 2015, orthodox activists, calling themselves “God’s Will”,...
Read MorePosted by Alexandra Guryanova | 29th Mar 2015 | Acting, Essay, Russia
In honor of World Theater Day on March 27, RBTH presents three of Russia’s greatest contributions...
Read MorePosted by Yekaterina Sinelschikova | 14th Mar 2015 | Essay, Russia, Theatre and Opera
A lawsuit filed by a local branch of the Russian Orthodox Church against the director of the...
Read MorePosted by Jackie Wykes and Cat Pausé | 10th Mar 2015 | Australia, Essay, Theatre and Politics
The fear and loathing of fat is such a ubiquitous part of contemporary Western culture that it...
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...
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