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Kwame Kwei-Armah Has Been Named New Artistic Director Of The Young Vic

Posted by The Theatre Times | 23rd Oct 2017 | London, News, United Kingdom

“You’re told you can’t do this. I’ve tried to go: yes we can.” The new artistic director of...

“Unknown” Polish Directors: Agata Duda-Gracz

Posted by Kasia Lech | 22nd Oct 2017 | Directing, Essay, Poland

This series introduces Polish directors whose work is recognized in Poland, but they are...

A Report On Iran’s Traditional And Ritual Theatre Festival

Posted by Farhang Farbod | 22nd Oct 2017 | Festivals, Iran, Review

The 18th Traditional and Ritual Theatre Festival was held September 1–6 in Tehran. The festival...

Ping Chong + Company Presents “ALAXSXA | ALASKA”

Posted by Heather Waters | 21st Oct 2017 | New York, Puppetry, Review, Theatre and Art, United States of America

Ping Chong + Company’s show ALAXSXA | ALASKA subverts an overused Western storyline of people as...

Francis Poulenc’s “Midnight In Paris” (“La Voix Humaine”) In Beijing

Posted by Cheng-Han Wu | 21st Oct 2017 | Belgium, China, Festivals, Review, Theatre and Opera, Transcultural Collaborations

Belgium’s new opera company Muziektheater Transparant is invited by the 2017 Beijing Music...

A Convincing “Tosca” at Boston Lyric Opera

Posted by Katrina Holden-Buckley | 20th Oct 2017 | Boston, Review, Theatre and Opera, United States of America

Riding the line between political thriller and melodrama, Joseph Kerman described Puccini’s Tosca...

An Inconvenient Truth – Henrik Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People” at Yale Rep

Posted by Donald Brown | 20th Oct 2017 | Review, Translation, United States of America

Thanks to Trump’s designation of the press as “the enemy of the people,” the question of what...

Maria Irene Fornes’s “Mud” at Teatro Circulo

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 20th Oct 2017 | Directing, New York, Review, United States of America

Maria Irene Fornes’s 1983 play Mud, widely considered a contemporary classic, is rarely produced...

Celebrating The 40th Anniversary Of Gardzienice

Posted by Tomasz Wiśniewski | 19th Oct 2017 | Essay, Festivals, Poland

Gardzienice is one of the most innovative and influential theatre companies in Poland. Founded in...

Kuro Tanino’s “The Dark Inn” Illustrates Our Inability To Let Go Of Our Desires

Posted by William Peterson | 19th Oct 2017 | Japan, Review

The darkness of the human condition, where people are enslaved by their own desires in a kind of...

What Is The State of New Plays in Contemporary China?

Posted by Nina Huang | 18th Oct 2017 | China, Essay, Playwriting, Producing

Meddling directors, confused actors, and pushy politicians are leaving the country’s budding...

Nassim Soleimanpour and the Manila Envelope Theatre

Posted by Aida Rocci | 18th Oct 2017 | Iran, Playwriting, Review

Seven years ago, a new play challenged the role of the actor, the playwright, the audience, and the capacity of one individual to travel. The play was White Rabbit Red Rabbit, written by the mysterious Nassim Soleimanpour, an Iranian writer who encouraged the audience to email him with impressions about his play.