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“Hadestown,” The Cult Album That Went To Broadway: “Hades Isn’t Based On Trump–But Trump Might Be Based On Hades”

Posted by Holly Williams | 27th Nov 2018 | London, News, Theatre and Opera, United Kingdom

Hadestown, a reworking of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth by American singer-songwriter Anais...

“The Hoes” at The Hampstead Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 27th Nov 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom

Because of the #MeToo movement, and the revival of feminist protest, the theme of sisterhood now...

Puccini’s “Turandot” In Galati: From The Fairy Tale To The Inner Life

Posted by Maria Pia Pagani | 27th Nov 2018 | Italy, Review, Romania, Theatre and Opera

In 2018, the Nae Leonard Teatrul Muzical in Galati, Romania, was declared the National Opera...

Hong Kong Ballet’s “Giselle” at Hong Kong Cultural Centre

Posted by Clement Lee | 26th Nov 2018 | Hong Kong, Review, Theatre and Dance

With a new artistic director leading a traditional art form to the frontier, Hong Kong Ballet...

“Blue Kettle” And “Here We Go”: A First Rate Revival Of Two Of Caryl Churchill’s Plays

Posted by Jane Baldwin | 26th Nov 2018 | Boston, Review, United States of America

The Boston Commonwealth Shakespeare Company began life as a summer program over twenty years ago...

“Muhnochini”: Wrestling With Feminine Forces

Posted by Vikram Phukan | 25th Nov 2018 | Devised Theatre, India, Review, Theatre and Gender

The quiet drone of a tanpura marks the meditative beginnings of a new solo performance that opened...

Stages Of Womanhood: On Female Theatre In The Arab World

Posted by Nora Amin | 25th Nov 2018 | France, Morocco, News, Theatre and Gender, Transcultural Collaborations

The University of Bordeaux Montaigne concluded its 2018 public cultural program with a...

Pioneering Black Superstar Immortalized on Stage

Posted by Alexander Nderitu | 25th Nov 2018 | Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America

Josephine Baker tribute shows garner favourable reviews across the world.

Taking My Shoes Off: Dramaturgy By Movement

Posted by Miranda Laurence | 24th Nov 2018 | Dramaturgy, Essay, United Kingdom

My mode of being, as a dramaturg, begins with looking and continues with language. Much of my work...

Battlefield Generations: On The Iraqi Theatre Play “A Smell Of War”

Posted by Nora Amin | 24th Nov 2018 | Egypt, Festivals, Review

A Smell Of War was staged in Cairo within the Cairo International Festival for Contemporary and...

Interview With Clara Fernandez-Vara: “Your Spectator Is Also Your Player”

Posted by Ágnes Bakk | 23rd Nov 2018 | Interview, New York, Participatory Theatre, Transmedia, United States of America

Clara Fernandez-Vara is an Associate Arts Professor at New York University. Her background is in...

How To Breathe Soul Into A Machine! A Plea For More Digital Tenderness

Posted by Christian Römer | 23rd Nov 2018 | Germany, News, Transmedia

The digital age! (…) Can we turn it off? Real people want to see real people! The voices from...

“OnlyHuman” At Danspace Project

Posted by Abigail Weil | 22nd Nov 2018 | New York, Review, Theatre and Dance, United States of America

In the celebratory cookbook Cake, Maira Kalman writes: “When we lived in Rome we had a party...

Don DeLillo’s “Love-Lies-Bleeding” At The Coronet Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 22nd Nov 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom

Plays about old age are also often plays about death. This is certainly true of American novelist...

Examining Gender Issues Through An Ancient Myth: 27 Degrees’ “Medusa” At Crypt Gallery

Posted by Haylin Cai | 22nd Nov 2018 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom

In Greek and Roman mythology, Medusa the Gorgon is a hideous, monstrous woman with snakes in place...

Berlin: Governing A “Creative” City

Posted by Friederike Landau | 21st Nov 2018 | Essay, Germany, Producing, Theatre and Politics

Advocacy for the arts has been one of the central topics of the meetings and research activities...

Stan Lai: Between Laughter And Tears

Posted by Clarissa Oon | 21st Nov 2018 | Review, Taiwan, Transcultural Collaborations

Part of the Asian Theatremakers series At the height of the fear and panic caused by the SARS...

Festival Des Francophonies En Limousin. International Francophone Theatre In All Its Diversity

Posted by Alvina Ruprecht | 21st Nov 2018 | Festivals, France, News

This new international festival in Limoges created in 1984 by Pierre DeBauche after the Avignon...

Belonging In A “Creative” City

Posted by Friederike Landau and Christophe Knoch | 20th Nov 2018 | Essay, Germany, Producing, Theatre and Politics

Advocacy for the arts has been one of the central topics of the meetings and research activities...

Tom Stoppard’s “The Hard Problem” Looks for Humanity in Human Consciousness

Posted by Michael Appler | 20th Nov 2018 | New York, Review, United States of America

Stoppard has sought to lower the stage into the depths of the human mind, endeavoring to see the theater as a proxy for human consciousness, an outlet whose own bizarre corruptions of life are but well-directed reflections of our own conscious turmoil.