On Screen And On Stage, Disability Continues To Be Depicted In Outdated, Cliched Ways
The #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements have forced Hollywood and other artists and filmmakers...
Read MorePosted by Magda Romanska | 15th Nov 2020 | Essay, Los Angeles, Theatre and Disability, United States of America
The #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements have forced Hollywood and other artists and filmmakers...
Read MorePosted by Edmund John Collins | 13th Nov 2020 | Essay, Ghana, Theatre and Politics
Towards the end of the Kwame Nkrumah era in 1966, a number of highlife artists wrote songs...
Read MorePosted by Wieke Ten Cate | 11th Nov 2020 | Essay, Netherlands, Theatre for Young Audiences, Youth Theatre - A Casebook
As a documentary theatre maker, I am typically interested in individuals and characters whom I...
Read MorePosted by Jacinthe Flore, Averyl Gaylor, and Natalie Hendry | 11th Nov 2020 | Australia, Covid-19, Essay
The arts industry is among the most devastated by the pandemic. Artists and arts workers often...
Read MorePosted by Francois Guillon | 7th Nov 2020 | Canada, Essay, Review
La compagnie catalane Els Joglars, crée en 1962 par Albert Boadella, Carlota Soldevila, propose...
Read MorePosted by Catherine Butler | 7th Nov 2020 | Essay, United Kingdom
Who is Shakespeare’s greatest villain? Richard III? Iago? Macbeth? They all have a claim to the...
Read MorePosted by Rhiannon Ling | 21st Oct 2020 | Essay, Theatre and Disability, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
There’s no denying that COVID-19 has been a financial and connectivity nightmare for artists....
Read MorePosted by Sylver Kyagulanyi | 18th Oct 2020 | Essay, Theatre and Politics, Uganda
The entertainment or creative arts industry is as old as humanity. It is one of the ways through...
Read MorePosted by Sarah Bay-Cheng | 12th Oct 2020 | Covid-19, Essay, Participatory Theatre, United States of America
“I’m so glad I saw it live!” That’s what I said after the nerve-wracking Game 6 of the NBA...
Read MorePosted by Lola Proaño Gomez | 26th Sep 2020 | Argentina, Covid-19, Dramaturgy, Essay, Transmedia
The pandemic, like the tragedy of the 21st century, has a theatrical mode, and the social response...
Read MorePosted by Alexander Mantush | 19th Sep 2020 | Belarus, Essay, Theatre and Politics
100 years ago the first-ever professional theatre in the modern history of Belarus opened its...
Read MorePosted by Ian Kiyingi Muddu | 13th Sep 2020 | Covid-19, Essay, Uganda
Moses Tumwebaze is a full-time actor in the Ugandan Theatre industry. He is a member of The...
Read MorePosted by Tonderai Chiyindiko | 7th Sep 2020 | Adaptation, Covid-19, Essay, South Africa
After the unforeseen Covid-19 induced a public events hiatus where all forms of public gatherings,...
Read MorePosted by Anton Sanatov | 18th Aug 2020 | Dramaturgy, Essay, Russia
“If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third...
Read MorePosted by Marié-Heleen Coetzee | 16th Aug 2020 | Covid-19, Essay, South Africa
The COVID-19 pandemic undoubtedly hit the cultural and creative industries sector (CCI) very hard. UNESCO called the situation a “cultural emergency” on a global scale.
Read MorePosted by Vassili Schedrin | 16th Aug 2020 | Acting, Essay, Russia, Theatre and Politics
Solomon Mikhoels, the beloved star of the Soviet Yiddish theater, was once asked how long he...
Read MorePosted by Gayatri Sinha | 11th Aug 2020 | Essay, India, Transcultural Collaborations
Alkazi was not just the father of modern Indian theatre, but a pioneer who pushed the frontiers...
Read MorePosted by Kate Lovell | 5th Aug 2020 | Essay, Japan, Theatre and Dance, Theatre and Disability, Transmedia, United Kingdom
Digital dance piece tells the never-before heard stories of deaf survivors of the A-bombs dropped...
Read MorePosted by John Drew | 25th Jul 2020 | Essay, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
A doctor speaks about events they think will put public health at risk. Instead of responding with...
Read MorePosted by Sarah Price | 23rd Jul 2020 | Directing, Essay, Producing, United Kingdom, United States of America
From classic Andrew Lloyd Webber plays to the release of a recording of the original cast of...
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