“Shopping and F***” is Back – How it Rocked Then and Why it’s Relevant Now
Shopping and Fucking was the most iconic play of the 1990s. As it is revived, 20 years on, we look...
Read MorePosted by Hugh Montgomery | 15th Oct 2016 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Shopping and Fucking was the most iconic play of the 1990s. As it is revived, 20 years on, we look...
Read MorePosted by Ulrike Kahle-Steinweh | 15th Oct 2016 | Design, Essay, Germany
Katrin Brack and Barbara Ehnes, two set designers, have influenced and even changed the theatre....
Read MorePosted by Marjan Moosavi | 15th Oct 2016 | Interview, Iran, Playwriting
Acclaimed Iranian playwright Mohammad Yaghoubi was in Toronto directing the Canadian premiere of...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 15th Oct 2016 | Dramaturgy, Essay, Italy, Playwriting
“While Italy this year is celebrating 150 years as a single nation state, in many fields any sense of unity is still tenuous. Theatre and contemporary playwriting are no exceptions to this rule.” – Margaret Rose
Read MorePosted by The Theatre Times | 14th Oct 2016 | New York, News, Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America
The Seedling Project is an original play inspired by the true stories of women and men as they...
Read MorePosted by Cátia Faísco | 14th Oct 2016 | Portugal, Review
Grandma Cândida died some months ago, and her grandson, the Portuguese playwright Tiago Rodrigues,...
Read MorePosted by Nora Amin | 13th Oct 2016 | Adaptation, Applied Theatre, Egypt, Essay
It was September 2012 that I had decided to stage An Enemy of the People, by Henrik Ibsen. A play...
Read MorePosted by Eva Miranda and Katy Serudo | 12th Oct 2016 | Brazil, Festivals, News
During the Rio 2016 Olympic Games season, the Centro de Artes Cênicas (Performing Arts Center) of...
Read MorePosted by Dorothea Marcus | 12th Oct 2016 | Essay, Germany, Theatre and Politics
On the German stage refugees are still often the authentic narrators of their fate, directed by...
Read MorePosted by The Theatre Times | 12th Oct 2016 | News, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Sarah Ruhl’s new play Scenes from Court Life, or the whipping boy and his prince, premiered...
Read MorePosted by Martha Steketee | 12th Oct 2016 | Dramaturgy, News
Dramaturgs have always been part of each team working at PlayPenn. But since 2012, its...
Read MorePosted by Olisa. TV | 12th Oct 2016 | News, Nigeria, Theatre and Gender
In anticipation of the International Day for the Girl Child, the Performing Arts Workshop and...
Read MorePosted by Mary Barnard | 12th Oct 2016 | Essay, Peru
How to determine which works of theatre belong in a canon is a perennial question, especially...
Read MorePosted by Diana Damian Martin | 11th Oct 2016 | London, News, United Kingdom
Performance festival Steakhouse Live returns for 2016 with a beefier line-up and a new embedded...
Read MorePosted by Lauren Dubowski | 11th Oct 2016 | Directing, News, Poland
Andrzej Wajda, the internationally renowned Polish film and theatre director and icon of the...
Read MorePosted by Sébastien Hendrickx | 10th Oct 2016 | Belgium, Directing, Review
On Mount Olympus (Jan Fabre/Troubleyn): To glorify the cult of tragedy ‘Breathe, just breathe....
Read MorePosted by Konstantina Georgelou, Efrosini Protopapa, and Danae Theodoridou | 9th Oct 2016 | Dramaturgy, Essay
For three years, between 2013-2016, we regularly invited theatre-makers, choreographers,...
Read MorePosted by Christine Wahl | 9th Oct 2016 | Essay, Germany, Playwriting
The new theatre texts that have been presented in the 2015/16 season at play markets in...
Read MorePosted by Kee-Yoon Nahm | 8th Oct 2016 | Festivals, News, South Korea
The 2016 Seoul Performing Arts Festival (SPAF) opened on September 30th, initiating a month-long...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 8th Oct 2016 | New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Richard Gilman, an old teacher of mine and a terrific critic, used to say that whenever he read...
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