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“One Small Step” At Ice Factory Festival

Posted by Jack Wernick | 13th Jul 2018 | Festivals, New York, Review, United States of America

Downtown theater pioneer the New Ohio Theatre has emerged with its annual summer festival called...

“Imperium” at The Gielgud Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 13th Jul 2018 | Adaptation, London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom

History repeats itself. This much we know. In the 1980s, under a Tory government obsessed with...

Brecht Comes Home To Santa Monica With City Garage’s “Arturo Ui”

Posted by Christine Deitner | 12th Jul 2018 | Los Angeles, Review, Translation, United States of America

There are plays that feel timeless because they strike familiar chords and speak to something at...

“Genesis Inc” at The Hampstead Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 12th Jul 2018 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom

We are now pretty familiar with the idea that human reproduction (making babies) has been turned...

Acting Legend Martha Henry Triumphs As Prospero At Stratford

Posted by Jamie Portman | 11th Jul 2018 | Canada, Festivals, Review

STRATFORD—We find ourselves immediately plunged into the opening shipwreck scene: sails flapping...

Arab Arts Focus To Be Featured In Festival Off Avignon

Posted by Omar Aladin and Mariam Barakat | 11th Jul 2018 | Egypt, Festivals, France, News

Managed by Ahmed El-Attar, the Arab Arts Focus program features artists from across the Arab...

Keiko Miyata To Mark Departure From The New National Theatre, Tokyo, With Piece By Up-And-Coming Playwright

Posted by Nobuko Tanaka | 11th Jul 2018 | Directing, Japan, News, Playwriting

After eight years as artistic director for drama at the New National Theatre, Tokyo, Keiko Miyata,...

Robert Lepage Finally Makes It To Stratford With An Astonishing “Coriolanus”

Posted by Jamie Portman | 10th Jul 2018 | Canada, Directing, Review

We’re not in a movie house. We’re in Robert Lepage country, so it’s inevitable that the famed...

Confronting The Past: Anjon Bose’s “Garbh” Focuses on Rural Distress and Disintegration

Posted by Diwan Singh Bajeli | 10th Jul 2018 | India, Review, Translation

Incorporating elements of post-modernism, surrealism and realism, Anjon Bose’s Garbh focuses on...

Longread. Katie Mitchell On Chekhov, Stanislavsky, And Characters Of Flesh And Blood

Posted by Yulia Savikovskaya | 9th Jul 2018 | Directing, Interview, Russia, United Kingdom

Katie, or rather, Katrina Jane Mitchell, is a leading British theatre director whose creative...

“Winter Solstice” At Cannes

Posted by Katerina Sinadinovska | 9th Jul 2018 | France, Germany, Review, Theatre and Politics, Translation

The thesis that fascism is encountered at all extremes of the political spectrum is a key to the...

Hitchcock Meets Indian Film Noir

Posted by Vikram Phukan | 9th Jul 2018 | Adaptation, India, News

The fourth edition of Aadyam premieres with Atul Kumar’s crime extravaganza—Detective Nau Do...

Silence And Violence In “4’33” In Baghdad” (Montreal Fringe)

Posted by Willow White | 8th Jul 2018 | Canada, Festivals, Review

Montreal, Québec Willow White reviews Thought Experiment Productions’ 4’33” In Baghdad in the...

The Shaw Festival Misfires With “The Baroness And The Pig”

Posted by Jamie Portman | 8th Jul 2018 | Canada, Festivals, Review

The scene does offer some amusement. A benevolent Baroness has embarked on a key initiative in her...

“Sa Wakas” – A Sugarfree-Inspired Rock Musical

Posted by Jenette Vizcocho | 8th Jul 2018 | Musical Theatre, News, Philippines

Ina Abuan started off like any other big fan of Sugarfree, but when she was invited to co-author a...

Jacek Sieradzki Announces The End Of The Contemporary Polish Plays Problem: The 2018 Awards For Staging Contemporary Polish Plays

Posted by Kasia Lech | 8th Jul 2018 | Acting, Europe, News, Poland, Puppetry

Last week, the Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute announced the winners of the 24th National...

The Playful Vitality Of Matter: “The Goldfish And The Inner Tube” Of Ruth Childs And Stéphane Vecchione

Posted by Marilena Borriello | 7th Jul 2018 | Review, Switzerland

In the center of the stage, thirty-six deflated inner tubes are organized in six rows and six...

Martin McDonagh’s “The Lieutenant Of Inishmore” At The Noël Coward Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 7th Jul 2018 | London, Northern Ireland, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom

Actor Aidan Turner, who plays the Cornish land-owner Poldark in the hit BBC series of that name,...

Contemporary Performing Arts In Portugal: An Overview Pt. 1

Posted by Maria João Guardão | 7th Jul 2018 | Essay, Portugal

The last IETM plenary meeting in Portugal took place in Lisbon in 1998, with the city at the...

“Carmen Jones”: A Classic Reborn

Posted by The Theatre Times | 6th Jul 2018 | Musical Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America

It is then, a refreshing surprise – as New York theatre recovers from the inundation of Broadway super-musicals that were too big to succeed – that Carmen Jones has returned in a razor-sharp 95-minute John Doyle production at the Classic Stage Company.