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Lynn Nottage’s “Sweat” at The Public Theatre

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 14th Dec 2016 | New York, Review, United States of America

What a journey Lynn Nottage’s Sweat has had. When this gorgeously incisive play about heartbreak...

Between Masculinity and Modernity: “Best Of (His Story)”

Posted by Kathy Rowland | 13th Dec 2016 | Review, Singapore, Theatre and Gender

In 2013, award-winning actress Siti Khalijah Zainal brought Singapore’s company, The...

Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard” to Be Screened in London

Posted by Alexandra Guzeva - Russia Beyond the Headlines | 13th Dec 2016 | News, Russia

Stage Russia brings Russian theatre to a global audience by filming live productions performed by...

Heterosexual Dystopia in “The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name”

Posted by Alex First | 13th Dec 2016 | Australia, LGBTQ+ Theatre, Review

Bold and provocative, directed by Sarah Vickery.Thomas Ian Doyle’s latest work – The Upstairs...

“The Tempest Reimagined” at The Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA)

Posted by The Theatre Times | 12th Dec 2016 | Design, Education, News, Philippines

The Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) lives up to its vision of “mounting...

Between the Niche and Disneyland: Interactive Performance Design for Virtual Theatre & Games

Posted by Ágnes Bakk | 12th Dec 2016 | Immersive Theatre, Interview, Participatory Theatre, Transmedia

Evert Hoogendoorn is a strategist and game designer at IJsfontein Interactive Media. He also has a...

Unbounded Soliloquy: Wajdi Mouawad’s “Seuls”

Posted by Jessica Rizzo | 11th Dec 2016 | Philadelphia, Review, United States of America

Seuls Written, Directed, and Performed by Wajdi Mouawad The Wilma Theater, Philadelphia Nov....

Microtheater in Words Without Borders: A Genre for Uncertain Times

Posted by Eric M. B. Becker | 11th Dec 2016 | Essay, Translation

More than ten years after Words without Borders presented its first issue of theater in...

South Sudan Artists Protest Civil War With Street Performances And Other Art

Posted by The Theatre Times | 11th Dec 2016 | News, South Sudan, Theatre and Politics

Musicians played lively tunes in South Sudan’s capital, and pedestrians and market shoppers...

James Graham On How His 2012 Political Hit “This House” Will Go Down in 2016

Posted by James Graham | 10th Dec 2016 | News, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom

The danger of writing political plays is that reality, of course, has a habit of overtaking you....

Uruguay Feminist Drama: Marianella Morena’s “I Will Bear No Child, I Will Bear Verses”

Posted by Lola Proaño Gomez | 9th Dec 2016 | Review, Theatre and Gender, Uruguay

Delmira Agustini (1886–1914), one of the most important Uruguayan poets, was assassinated by...

The Great Australian Plays: “The Torrents,” “The Doll” and The Critical Mass of Australian Drama

Posted by Julian Meyrick | 9th Dec 2016 | Australia, Essay

In 1955, two plays, The Torrents by Oriel Gray and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll by Ray Lawler,...

Yury Butusov’s “Drums in the Night” at the Pushkin Theater

Posted by Marina Shimadina | 9th Dec 2016 | Review, Russia

Yury Butusov premiered his new production of Brecht at the Pushkin Theater, which is fated to...

The Sultan Padamsee Award Returns To Celebrate Indian Theatre

Posted by Kennith Rosario | 9th Dec 2016 | India, News

After over two decades, the Sultan Padamsee Award has been revived to discover fresh narratives in...

The American Tour Of Contemporary Romanian Female Artists: Empowering Women

Posted by Ana-Maria Bandean | 9th Dec 2016 | New York, News, Romania, United States of America

On the nights of November 18 & November 20, 2016, at Here Arts Centre, NYC, I was being...

London Theatre Company Brings Translators Centre-Stage

Posted by William Gregory | 8th Dec 2016 | London, News, Translation, United Kingdom

There are plenty of theatre translators who start out as actors, directors, playwrights or other...

Political Adaptations: Raleigh Literary Society’s “Waiting for Godot” and “Hayadavana”

Posted by Mohammad Asim Siddiqui | 8th Dec 2016 | Adaptation, India, Review, Theatre and Politics

In his institutional history of literature in American colleges and universities, Gerald Graff...

Poland On Stage: What, When, and Where

Posted by Lauren Dubowski | 8th Dec 2016 | News, Poland

Warsaw, The Centrala Theatre/Zachęta, National Gallery of Art: Orestes, directed by Michał Zadara...

Takarazuka Revue: Japanese All-Female Musical Theater Troupe

Posted by Lauren Deutsch | 7th Dec 2016 | Essay, Japan, Musical Theatre, Theatre and Gender

Nothing’s clear-cut at Japan’s Takarazuka Revue, arguably one of the world’s largest all-female musical theatre groups. The women who portray male roles in the Revue’s repertoire must maintain a semblance of “maleness” off-stage as well, the “off” boundaries being far away from the theatre environs.