Theatre Reviewing Is A Responsible Job–And It Requires Care
Is there any job other than theatre critic where so little knowledge can carry so much weight? If...
Read MorePosted by Julian Meyrick | 25th Feb 2015 | Australia, Essay, Management
Is there any job other than theatre critic where so little knowledge can carry so much weight? If...
Read MorePosted by Julian Meyrick | 17th Feb 2015 | Australia, Essay, Management
Sociologist Max Weber once called politics “the slow boring of hard boards”. If he had been in the...
Read MorePosted by Colin Yeo | 28th Jan 2015 | Essay, North America, Theatre and Film
What do Shakespeare’s Hamlet, The Simpsons, and Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s film Birdman have in...
Read MorePosted by Amelia Parenteau | 23rd Dec 2014 | Directing, Essay, France
American playwright, translator, and journalist Amelia Parenteau is currently in residence in...
Read MorePosted by Amelia Parenteau | 19th Dec 2014 | Essay, France, Theatre and Gender
American playwright, translator, and journalist Amelia Parenteau is currently in residence in...
Read MorePosted by Charlotte M. Canning | 17th Dec 2014 | Essay, North America, Theatre and Politics
Director Ridley Scott recently set off a firestorm when he dismissed those who criticized him for...
Read MorePosted by Eric Rasmussen | 11th Dec 2014 | Essay, United Kingdom
The Shakespeare First Folio (1623), the first collected edition of his plays and the sole source...
Read MorePosted by John Freedman | 4th Dec 2014 | Essay, Playwriting, Russia
This is the second installment in John Freedman’s TheaterPlus video blog, which now appears...
Read MorePosted by Amelia Parenteau | 3rd Dec 2014 | Essay, France, Management, New York, United States of America
American playwright, translator, and journalist Amelia Parenteau is currently in residence in...
Read MorePosted by John Freedman | 17th Nov 2014 | Essay, Interview, Playwriting, Russia, Translation
Back when I used to publish a blog called TheaterPlus on the website of The Moscow Times, I would...
Read MorePosted by Amelia Parenteau | 3rd Nov 2014 | Essay, France
Since moving back to Paris this fall, I’ve been making my rounds at the theater, sampling this...
Read MorePosted by John Freedman | 7th Oct 2014 | Directing, Essay, Russia
The death of Yury Lyubimov in Moscow on Sunday morning, October 5, 2014, at the age of 97, puts...
Read MorePosted by Julian Meyrick | 1st Oct 2014 | Dramaturgy, Essay, Theatre and Politics
Drama and its core principles are to be found in theatres while the real world goes on outside,...
Read MorePosted by John Freedman | 26th Sep 2014 | Essay, Russia, Theatre and Politics
On occasion, rather than buried and hidden somewhere, essences lie right there on the surface,...
Read MorePosted by Gail Marshall | 24th Sep 2014 | Essay, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
Several British theatres have made a pledge to address the levels of gender inequality on the...
Read MorePosted by Dara Weinberg | 23rd Sep 2014 | Essay, Festivals, Poland
After the enormous Oratorium Dance Project, in 2011, no one wanted to stop working with the Łódź...
Read MorePosted by Mareile Pfannebecker | 22nd Sep 2014 | Essay, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
The ghost, in this autumn’s Royal Exchange Theatre production of Hamlet, is in the light bulbs....
Read MorePosted by Eloise Brook | 11th Sep 2014 | Australia, Essay, Playwriting
Here are two opposing definitions of rape: Rape: a violent, criminal act almost exclusively...
Read MorePosted by Paula James | 5th Sep 2014 | Essay, London, Theatre and Film, United Kingdom
The September 4 live transmission of Euripides’ Medea will have brought an ancient Greek tragedy...
Read MorePosted by Kirill Serebrennikov | 3rd Sep 2014 | Essay, Russia, Theatre and Politics
Kirill Serebrennikov, the artistic director of Moscow’s innovative Gogol Center, and a...
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