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PQ 2019: The Golden Triga

Posted by Abigail Weil | 17th Jun 2019 | Czech Republic, Festivals, News, Prague Quadrennial 2019, Transcultural Collaborations

“Comrades,” said the woman in a loose zebra print dress and bright red lipstick, “this is not a...

Moscow Theatre Prompter Talks About Her ‘Dying’ Job

Posted by Alexandra Guzeva - Russia Beyond the Headlines | 17th Jun 2019 | News, Russia

Nowadays, most theaters have stopped using prompters, but the Maly Theater cherishes this...

PQ 2019: A Taboo Collection From Budapest

Posted by Abigail Weil | 15th Jun 2019 | Czech Republic, Festivals, News, Prague Quadrennial 2019

This week, the New York Times posted an ad for a new fashion correspondent. The job ad reads, in...

Winners Demand More Gender Parity, Representation, and Diversity at 2019 Tony Awards

Posted by Holly Rosen Fink | 14th Jun 2019 | New York, News, Theatre and Disability, Theatre and Gender, United States of America

When Rachel Chavkin walked into the Tony Awards media room, she continued the conversation she had...

The Toronto Theatre Laboratory

Posted by Alvina Ruprecht | 13th Jun 2019 | Canada, News, Theatre and Politics

Art Babayants, of Armenian origin, has a doctorate in theatre performance, he taught acting in the...

Shakespeare’s Globe Touring Ensemble Will Return To Hong Kong

Posted by Zolima Citymag | 13th Jun 2019 | Acting, Dramaturgy, Hong Kong, News

One of the world’s most established Shakespearean theatre groups from London puts on The Comedy of...

PQ 2019: Chaos and Kindness

Posted by Abigail Weil | 13th Jun 2019 | Czech Republic, Festivals, News, Prague Quadrennial 2019, Transcultural Collaborations

The headquarters of the PQ is the Exhibition Grounds, but that’s not its boundaries. Between the...

Sasha Waltz: The Opera Choreographer

Posted by Romy König | 11th Jun 2019 | Germany, News, Theatre and Dance, Theatre and Opera

Choreographer Sasha Waltz has added a chapter to the history of dance with choreographic opera. It...

Staging the Political

Posted by Romy König | 10th Jun 2019 | Germany, News, Theatre and Politics

With its three transformable stages, the “Schaubühne at Lehniner Platz” is the largest theatre in...

PQ 2019: A New Reality

Posted by Abigail Weil | 9th Jun 2019 | Czech Republic, Design, Festivals, Immersive Theatre, News, Prague Quadrennial 2019, Transmedia

The fourteenth installment of the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space (PQ) kicked...

OUT SCORE: Χω/ορικές Σημειογραφίες I

Posted by Angeliki Spiropoulou | 7th Jun 2019 | Greece, News, Theatre and Art

OUT SCORE: Χω/ορικές Σημειογραφίες I is a research program that generates encounters between...

Participation in European Theatre: An Account of the European Theatre Conference, Dresden 2019

Posted by Christopher Harris | 6th Jun 2019 | Festivals, Germany, News, Our Stage European Festival in Dresden 2019, Participatory Theatre

For the most part, theatre can be recognized as the art of the collective. The ETC (European Theatre Convention) is all about sustaining this collective, and at their annual conference between the 23rd-26th May in Dresden, Germany, they are proving that the collective is not only an integral part to theatre, but that participation can also be a key component.