Nikoletta Soumelidis’s Spent at the Old Red Lion Theatre: Intriguing And Suggestive Exploration Of Gender Roles
One of the joys of contemporary playwriting is its openness to flexible casting. In Ruby Thomas’s...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 21st Mar 2025 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
One of the joys of contemporary playwriting is its openness to flexible casting. In Ruby Thomas’s...
Read MorePosted by Marcina Zaccaria | 19th Mar 2025 | Dramaturgy, Interview, Producing, United States of America
Getting to the truth – the emotional truth and understanding. I think emotion more than ideology. It resonates with us is how we feel. I can understand that we can be in conflict, I have an emotional connection to both sides of an emotional argument. I not only resonate and feel seen, then I have a better understanding of the person whose thought was in opposition of me.
Read MorePosted by Emilija Kvočka | 18th Mar 2025 | Directing, Review, Serbia
The theatrical kamikaze that destroys all the mechanisms of the world and itself—that is, theatre...
Read MorePosted by Lisa Monde | 12th Mar 2025 | Interview, Musical Theatre, Spain
In November 2024, the world premiere of a new musical by composer Iván Macías, The Pillars of the...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 10th Mar 2025 | Directing, Italy, Review
In February I caught Antonio Syxty’s staging of Romeo e Giulietta (Romeo and Juliet) at Milan’s...
Read MorePosted by Emily Cordes | 8th Mar 2025 | Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America
But a woman is a changeling, always shifting shape Just when you think you have it figured out...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 5th Mar 2025 | Acting, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
How long would you wait for your soulmate? In “The Demon Lover”, a short story by Elizabeth Bowen,...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 5th Mar 2025 | Italy, Review, Theatre and Science
Rarely have I spent such an intense ninety minutes watching a show, as I did the other evening at...
Read MorePosted by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar | 4th Mar 2025 | Interview, Theatre and Politics, Turkey
Interview with Handan Salta – co-founder of the Istanbul Theatre Showcase – TheatreIST, theatre...
Read MorePosted by Geraldine Brodie | 3rd Mar 2025 | Germany, Review, Theatre and Gender
Interpretations in cultures and languages external to Spain have been integral to the survival of...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 2nd Mar 2025 | Italy, Review, Theatre and Politics
In his short story, A Report to an Academy, written and published in 1917, Franz Kafka imagines...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 26th Feb 2025 | London, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Decolonization, United Kingdom
Diaries are dynamite — they hold secrets, and secrets can tear families apart. In Coral Wylie’s...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 21st Feb 2025 | Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
British people are socially awkward: this explains why we talk about the weather, queue...
Read MorePosted by Ellen Pearlman | 17th Feb 2025 | Interview, Theatre and AI, Theatre and Science, United States of America
Ellen Pearlman interviewed by Ivo Marais To read PART I of this interview, go to this link. ...
Read MorePosted by Ellen Pearlman | 16th Feb 2025 | Interview, Theatre and AI, Theatre and Science, United States of America
Ellen Pearlman interviewed by Ivo Marais Ivo: These questions are crafted to reflect the...
Read MorePosted by Kuan-Ting Lin | 14th Feb 2025 | Essay, News, Playwriting, Taiwan
Playwriting awards have always been a promised land for playwrights. For emerging storytellers,...
Read MorePosted by Morgan Skolnik | 13th Feb 2025 | Musical Theatre, New York, Review
“The singing is nice, but the staging is atrocious.” So remarked the couple sitting behind me at...
Read MorePosted by Morgan Skolnik | 13th Feb 2025 | New York, Review, Theatre and Politics
Any frequent theater-goer is likely familiar with the “two block rule”, a piece of etiquette that...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 13th Feb 2025 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
With the United States now governed by swaggering, ignorant bigots spewing xenophobic venom,...
Read MorePosted by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar | 12th Feb 2025 | Greece, Interview, Theatre and Politics
An Interview with Bouboulina Nikaki, Thessaloniki-Athens, Greece – International theatre...
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