Teatr Chorea’s Retro//Per//Spectives Festival: Part 2
Over the five days of the Retro//Per//Spectives festival, the host company Teatr Chorea performed...
Read MorePosted by Dara Weinberg | 30th Aug 2014 | Essay, Festivals, Poland
Over the five days of the Retro//Per//Spectives festival, the host company Teatr Chorea performed...
Read MorePosted by Dara Weinberg | 22nd Aug 2014 | Essay, Festivals, Poland
American writer/director, Dara Weinberg, live-blogs for TheTheatreTimes.com from Teatr...
Read MorePosted by Emily Lindsay Brown | 15th Aug 2014 | Essay, Scotland, Theatre and Politics
Alex Oates’ debut Fringe play traces the journey of 19-year-old Geordie lad Bruce, as he begins...
Read MorePosted by Andrew Blades | 4th Aug 2014 | Essay, London, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
My Night With Reg, Kevin Elyot’s 1994 play, has returned to the London stage, poignantly only a...
Read MorePosted by Laura Swift | 23rd Jul 2014 | Adaptation, Essay, London, United Kingdom
A new production of Medea recently opened at London’s National Theatre to critical acclaim. This...
Read MorePosted by Preti Taneja | 1st Jul 2014 | Adaptation, Essay, London, United Kingdom
I don’t really go in for creative mash-ups. You know: Alien Vs. Predator, or the films where...
Read MorePosted by Dmitriy Romendik | 16th Jun 2014 | Essay, Russia, Theatre for Young Audiences
There are over 200 theaters in Moscow. In addition to the traditional drama and music theaters,...
Read MorePosted by Vladimir Kozlov | 2nd Jun 2014 | Essay, Russia, Theatre and Politics
After a long period in which Russian theater productions avoided political themes, the last few...
Read MorePosted by Rob Pensalfini | 20th May 2014 | Australia, Essay, Theatre and Politics
Since 2006, I have led the Shakespeare Prison Project, an initiative by the Queensland Shakespeare...
Read MorePosted by Julian Meyrick | 14th May 2014 | Adaptation, Australia, Essay
Last year in Australian theatre a rare event took place: a sector-wide debate about the role of...
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 Tony Howard | 24th Apr 2014 | Essay, Festivals, United Kingdom
We’ve been celebrating Shakespeare’s 450th birthday week with fun, festivals, exhibitions, a cake...
Read MorePosted by Jana Perkovic | 2nd Apr 2014 | Australia, Essay, Theatre and Gender
Two performance artists in this year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival (MICF)–the...
Read MorePosted by Tony Howard | 24th Mar 2014 | Acting, Essay, United Kingdom
In 1825 the African-American actor Ira Aldridge came to London in The Slave’s Revenge. Before...
Read MorePosted by The Theatre Times | 22nd Feb 2014 | Essay, Participatory Theatre, Theatre and Politics, Ukraine
Between 11-18 February 2014, seven International Theatre of the Oppressed practitioners were...
Read MorePosted by Dara Weinberg | 28th Jan 2014 | Essay, Poland, Review
The group of visual artists and actors who comprise the surrealist dance-theater Teatr...
Read MorePosted by Georgy Manaev | 24th Sep 2013 | Essay, Russia, Theatre and Disability
For people with physical or intellectual disabilities, the art of theatre is the powerful mode of...
Read MorePosted by Phoebe Taplin | 21st Sep 2013 | Essay, Russia, Transcultural Collaborations
Some of London’s most innovative theatres and theatre companies are inspired by Russia but in very...
Read MorePosted by Alisa Orlova | 3rd Aug 2013 | Essay, Playwriting, Russia
It is impossible to imagine the Russian stage without the works of Alexander Ostrovsky – they are...
Read MorePosted by Pauline Tillmann | 6th Jun 2013 | Essay, Russia, Theatre and Opera
The new Mariinsky Theatre is a site of pilgrimage in St. Petersburg. Ballet and opera enthusiasts...
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