Death Of The Theatre Critic?
This is the age of marketing, not the age of criticism. To give an example, I’ll start with a...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 22nd Jul 2020 | Essay, United Kingdom
This is the age of marketing, not the age of criticism. To give an example, I’ll start with a...
Read MorePosted by Hannah Robbins | 20th Jul 2020 | Essay, Musical Theatre, Theatre and Film, United States of America
Hamilton Disney+ “The world turned upside down”, proclaim the cast of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s...
Read MorePosted by Miranda Laurence | 20th Jul 2020 | Dramaturgs’ Network: Invisible Diaries, Dramaturgy, Essay, United Kingdom
This article is part of the Dramaturgs’ Network’s Invisible Diaries series. In a moment of freedom...
Read MorePosted by Elleke Boehmer, Zimpande Kawanu and Archie Davies | 15th Jul 2020 | Essay, South Africa, Theatre for Young Audiences, Transcultural Collaborations
Across cultures, the self-making powers of storytelling are widely recognized. Steve Biko, the...
Read MorePosted by Miranda Laurence | 15th Jul 2020 | Dramaturgy, Essay, United Kingdom
This article is part of the Dramaturgs’ Network’s Invisible Diaries series. At the moment, my...
Read MorePosted by Ian Kiyingi Muddu | 13th Jul 2020 | Essay, Playwriting, Uganda
If you want to understand a nation and its people, look no farther than its art. Through a...
Read MorePosted by Colleen Renihan, Ben Schnitzer, and Julia Brook | 13th Jul 2020 | Canada, Essay, Theatre and Politics
Artists are crucial to the futures we’re imagining beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. The vitality of...
Read MorePosted by Vassili Schedrin | 12th Jul 2020 | Essay, Israel, Russia
Solomon Mikhoels, one of the founders and greatest stars of the Soviet Yiddish theater, wrote in...
Read MoreFor the first part of this article go here. No coherent government program has been put in place...
Read MoreFor part II of this essay, click here. The coronavirus pandemic is laying bare the ills gnawing at...
Read MorePosted by David Geary | 6th Jul 2020 | Canada, Dramaturgs’ Network: Invisible Diaries, Dramaturgy, Essay, New Zealand, Theatre and Decolonization
I’ve hit the wall. The big move is over but moving the “small stuff” all day reminded...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 6th Jul 2020 | Essay, India, Transmedia
In 1971, in New York’s SoHo neighborhood, a site-specific dance performance — one in which the...
Read MorePosted by David Geary | 4th Jul 2020 | Canada, Covid-19, Dramaturgs’ Network: Invisible Diaries, Dramaturgy, Essay, New Zealand
It’s TRIV NIGHT! Some TV People we know have kept the community vibe going by organizing online...
Read MorePosted by David Geary | 30th Jun 2020 | Canada, Covid-19, Dramaturgs’ Network: Invisible Diaries, Dramaturgy, Essay, Theatre and Decolonization
Grades went in. No death threats. A student wrote: “I learned something, and I laughed. That’s all...
Read MorePosted by Takudzwa Chihambakwe | 22nd Jun 2020 | Covid-19, Essay, Transmedia, Zimbabwe
On Thursday, June 4th, Jasen Mphepo Little Theatre in Zimbabwe showcased the first of many shows...
Read MorePosted by Kara McKechnie | 21st Jun 2020 | Covid-19, Dramaturgs’ Network: Invisible Diaries, Dramaturgy, Essay, United Kingdom
Writing is currently a challenge for many reasons – an important one being that we don’t know...
Read MorePosted by Divna Stojanov | 20th Jun 2020 | Essay, Puppetry, Slovenia
“The puppet says everything that needs to be said so that we are not affected. When we truly...
Read MorePosted by Zolima Citymag | 19th Jun 2020 | China, Design, Essay, Hong Kong
For generations, bamboo theatres have been a thread that ties together Hong Kong’s present and...
Read MorePosted by Kara McKechnie | 18th Jun 2020 | Covid-19, Dramaturgs’ Network: Invisible Diaries, Dramaturgy, Essay, United Kingdom
Adaptation became one of my “things” academically sometime in the early 2000s. I was...
Read MorePosted by Katalin Trencsényi | 13th Jun 2020 | Covid-19, Dramaturgs’ Network: Invisible Diaries, Dramaturgy, Essay, News
This post is dedicated to theatre-makers everywhere in the world [1]. In his book, Epidemics and...
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