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Multilingual Theatre For/With Young Audiences: On the Jeune Théâtre Européen Jeunes Publics Project

Posted by Kasia Lech | 28th Feb 2024 | Essay, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Theatre and Politics, Theatre for Young Audiences, Tunisia

The growing levels of migration result in an increasing number of children across Europe growing...

Peter Sellars’ “Beatrice di Tenda”: Freedom, Defiance, and Tyranny

Posted by Maria Delgado | 27th Feb 2024 | France, Review, Spain, Theatre and Opera

Vincenzo Bellini’s penultimate opera, Beatrice di Tenda, rests between two more frequently...

Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People at the Duke of York’s Theatre: Thomas Ostermeier’s West End Debut Has Starry Cast And Punk Aesthetics

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 26th Feb 2024 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom

It’s a sign of the times that German director Thomas Ostermeier’s West End debut is his production...

Becoming a Citizen Dramaturg

Posted by Liv Lanteri | 24th Feb 2024 | Dramaturgy, Education, News, United States of America

What is a citizen-dramaturg? Could I study it at a university? Is it merely a state of mind? Would...

Musical “Evita”: 45 Years Later

Posted by Lisa Monde | 22nd Feb 2024 | Interview, Musical Theatre, New York, United States of America

Tim Rice became interested in the biography of Eva Perón – the wife of the famous dictator Juan...

Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray” at the Theatre Royal Haymarket

Posted by Mert Dilek | 19th Feb 2024 | London, Review, United Kingdom

A solo performance in theatre may often trap us inside a single dramatic character, taking us deep...

Neurodivergent New Play Series Resumes Schedule for 2024

Posted by Jenna Lourenco | 18th Feb 2024 | Essay, New York, Theatre and Disability, United States of America

The Neurodivergent New Play Series, produced by Piccione Arts, is set to resume its regular third...

“Golden Calabash:” A Peep at Modern Politics

Posted by Kaggwa Andrew Mayiga | 16th Feb 2024 | Review, Theatre and Politics, Uganda

John Ssegawa’s Golden Calabash, Ekimala Ebita Embuga opened at the National Theatre in Kampala running during the Christmas season from 23rd to 26th December 2023. The theatre spent 2023 trying to find solutions to its...

Alberto Conejero’s “En Mitad de Tanto Fuego” (In the Midst of So Much Fire): Addressing the Gaps from the Margins

Posted by Maria Delgado | 15th Feb 2024 | Review, Spain

Alberto Conejero’s trajectory as a playwright has been rooted in telling the stories that have...

Sergio Blanco’s “When You Pass Over My Tomb” at the Arcola Theatre: Exquisite Meta-Theatrical Exploration Of Death and Necrophilia

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 14th Feb 2024 | Adaptation, London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom, Uruguay

Nowadays it seems that it’s the fringe and Off-West End venues that are keeping the spirit of...

Young Choreographers at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma

Posted by Ariadne Mikou | 14th Feb 2024 | Italy, Review, Theatre and Dance, Theatre and Opera

For the corps de ballet of an Opera House, the place par excellence for the preservation of the...

What Can I Say?

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 12th Feb 2024 | Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America

Rachel Bonds’s Jonah—directed by Danya Taymor at the Roundabout’s Laura Pels Theatre— is one of...

Jez Butterworth’s “The Hills of California” at the Harold Pinter Theatre: Warm Evocation of 1950s Pop Culture Is Fun, But Lacks Dramatic Resolution

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 11th Feb 2024 | London, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom

In West End theatre, the cliché that nothing succeeds like success keeps the wheels of commerce...

Rage and Fury: Calixto Bieito Stages Aribert Reimann’s “Lear” at the Teatro Real Madrid

Posted by Maria Delgado | 8th Feb 2024 | Review, Spain

Shakespeare’s King Lear has defied composers who refused invitations to render this bleakest...

Alaa Abdel-Aziz, Playwright, Former President Of Cairo Int’l Fest For Experimental Theatre, Dies

Posted by Ati Metwaly | 7th Feb 2024 | Egypt, Festivals, News

Egypt’s renowned theatre academic and former president of Cairo Int’l Festival for...

“Misericordia” (Mercy) at Madrid’s Teatro Valle Inclán: Families, (Auto)fiction and Exile

Posted by Maria Delgado | 6th Feb 2024 | Review, Spain

There is a lot to admire in Denise Despeyroux’s newest play produced by the Centro Dramático...

A Beginner’s Guide To Santiago a Mil 2024: 10 Key Takeaways From One of Latin America’s Most Important Theatre Festivals

Posted by Maria Delgado | 6th Feb 2024 | Chile, News, Santiago a Mil 2024

Santiago a Mil is an annual theatre and performing arts festival held in the Chilean capital in...

“The Fantastical Fellowship:” Niche Comedy at Under St. Mark’s

Posted by Rhiannon Ling | 5th Feb 2024 | Immersive Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America, Worldwide

For lovers of the fantastical and the geeky, the scene at Under St. Mark’s is one of nostalgia and...

Phillip Luswata: A Career Onstage and Behind the Scene

Posted by Kaggwa Andrew Mayiga | 4th Feb 2024 | Directing, Essay, Uganda

Phillip Luswata – “the one from Uganda” The first time I learned about Phillip Luswata was on a black and white TV. Then, he was a guest on the South African evening daily soap, Egoli: Place of Gold. His cameo had received such...