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3sisters at the Novi Sad Theatre

Posted by Emilija Kvočka | 7th Nov 2025 | Adaptation, Review, Serbia

Before the audience of the play 3sisters, with their eyes wide open, a music box, the girls on...

Jack Holden’s The Line of Beauty at the Almeida Theatre: A Subtle And Appealing Adaptation Of A Modern Classic 1980s Story

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 2nd Nov 2025 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom

Thatcher, and the image of Thatcher’s Britain, continues to cast a long shadow over contemporary...

FITPTI – International Festival For Young Audiences 2025 – A Northeastern Romanian Story

Posted by Teodora Medeleanu | 31st Oct 2025 | Festivals, Review, Romania

In Romanian culture, a vital coming-of-age moment for every teenager is their eighteenth birthday,...

Tanika Gupta’s “Hedda” at the Orange Tree Theatre: A Fresh And Fascinating Reinterpretation Of A Classic Which Foregrounds The Issues Of Race And Empire

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 30th Oct 2025 | Adaptation, London, Review, Theatre and Decolonization, United Kingdom

In 2023, Malaysian actor Michelle Yeoh won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance in...

The Queen of Versailles Musical or the Funeral of the “American dream.”

Posted by Lisa Monde | 29th Oct 2025 | Musical Theatre, Review, United States of America

The Queen of Versailles. A New Musical will officially open on Broadway, at the St. James Theatre...

Adaptations On The German Stage (1): “Sein Oder Nicht Sein” In Bremerhaven

Posted by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe | 29th Oct 2025 | Directing, Germany, Review

Sein oder nicht sein is a play by Nick Whitby (b.1963), premiered on Broadway in 2008, and first...

Meghan Tyler’s “Crocodile Fever” at the Arcola Theatre: Northern Ireland Sisters In A Darkly Funny Anti-Patriarchal Feast Of Symbols

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 27th Oct 2025 | Ireland, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom

Weird scenes inside the farmhouse; weird scenes in Northern Ireland; weird scenes of the 1980s....

Six-Hour Tour De Force “Hamlet” In Hamburg, Directed, With Many Ironic Self-References, By Veteran Legendary Frank Castorf

Posted by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe | 27th Oct 2025 | Directing, Germany, Review

This six-hour production of Hamlet took Shakespeare’s play as the starting and end point, in...

LegalAlien’s “The Flowers of Srebrenica”: Theatre as Healing

Posted by Verity Healey | 27th Oct 2025 | Bosnia, Review, Theatre and Politics

The Flowers of Srebrenica should be impossible to stage. Irish academic Aidan Hehir’s book, a...

Nick Payne’s “The Unbelievers” at the Royal Court Theatre: Latest Play By A Top New Writer Is Disappointingly Unfocused

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 26th Oct 2025 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom

The Royal Court, Britain’s premiere new writing venue, celebrates its platinum anniversary next...

Barbarians in Midtown

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 22nd Oct 2025 | Musical Theatre, Review, United States of America

The Terrence McNally/Stephen Flaherty/Lynn Ahrens musical Ragtime is not the subtlest theater...

“All Right. Good Night.:” A Poetic Meditation on the Art of Letting Go

Posted by Victoria Zavyalova | 20th Oct 2025 | Directing, Germany, Review, United States of America

In All Right. Good Night., German docu-theater artist Helgard Haug turns loss into a language. The...

Bloody Ignorant Apes

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 15th Oct 2025 | Directing, Review, United States of America

Absurd as it may seem, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, a demanding play about existential...

Taking A Hit

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 14th Oct 2025 | Adaptation, Review, United States of America

James Graham’s play Punch tells the true story of a shiftless, belligerent rowdy who heedlessly...

Maestras On The Podium: Women Conductors On Broadway, Then And Now

Posted by Sariva Goetz | 11th Oct 2025 | Essay, Musical Theatre, Theatre and Gender, United States of America

When I was four years old, I asked my parents for piano lessons. We always had a piano in the...

“Lale Lili Marleen:” The Promising Relaunch Of A Quaint Chamber Theatre In The Oldest District Of Bremen

Posted by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe | 10th Oct 2025 | Directing, Germany, Review

The small district of Schnoor in the northern German city of Bremen, consisting of some 100...

Welcome To The Machine

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 5th Oct 2025 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

Among the most depressing facets of Donald Trump’s pathology is how all-consuming his hunger for...

James Graham’s “Punch” at the Apollo Theatre: Compelling And Emotionally Intense Account Of Restorative Justice

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 30th Sep 2025 | Documentary Theatre, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom

Broken Britain has a big problem with youth. About a million of those aged 16 to 24 are NEETs (not...

“Full Moon” by Josef Nadj at the Festival of International Alternative Theatre (FIAT) in Montenegro

Posted by Emilija Kvočka | 30th Sep 2025 | Montenegro, Review, Theatre and Dance

“By the term theatre we do not only mean its expressive linguistic side, but also the cultural,...

Debating Identity: Is It Time to Rename Cairo’s Experimental Theater Festival?

Posted by Ati Metwaly | 26th Sep 2025 | Egypt, Essay, Festivals

The Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theater (CIFET) has long been a vital platform for the boundary-pushing theatrical voices in the Arab world, and beyond. Recently, debates have emerged over whether to keep “experimental” in its name, as the festival faces pressure to broaden its scope and attract wider audiences. The question now is how to balance honoring the festival’s experimental roots while evolving to meet the changing theatrical landscape of the 21st century.