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From Bacon to Bananas: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2026 in 24 Shows

Posted by Mert Dilek | 28th Aug 2026 | Edinburgh 2026, Festivals, Review, United Kingdom

With more than 4,200 shows making up this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, twenty-four...

Monumental Environment For 9-Hour Celebration Of Goethe’s “Faust” At The Goetheanum

Posted by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe | 24th Aug 2026 | Acting, Directing, Review, Switzerland

Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) is recognized internationally as the founder of anthroposophy, which,...

Dancing With Bob: Visual Arts And Dance In Dialogue With Each Other

Posted by Ariadne Mikou | 24th Aug 2026 | Festivals, Italy, Review, Theatre and Dance

On 11 and 12 July, in Spoleto (Italy), there was the European premiere of a significant...

“The Story of the Stone”: A Chinese Classic as an Epic Musical Awes Korean Audience

Posted by Walter Byongsok Chon | 21st Aug 2026 | China, Musical Theatre, Review, South Korea

The Chinese musical The Story of the Stone was staged at the 600-seat ARKO (Arts Council Korea)...

“Low German” Theatre in Bremerhaven: “The Physicists” by Dürrenmatt

Posted by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe | 17th Aug 2026 | Germany, Review, Translation

In terms of linguistics, Low German (Plattdeutsch) is a language of its own, not a dialect, and...

Alan Ayckbourn’s “How the Other Half Loves” at the Old Vic: Technically Brilliant if Rather Overlong and Old-Fashioned West End Farce

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 13th Aug 2026 | Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom

Is there a crisis in British new writing? The comparative paucity of new work in mainstream...

Beyond the Storm, a New York City Opera Thrives

Posted by Marcina Zaccaria | 19th Jul 2026 | New York, Review, Theatre and Opera, United States of America

That day, I aimed to view a production of The Tempest through a difficult flood. Prepared to pique an interest in the larger “theater is life” argument, I got my notebook ready. The hours passed. I sought to leave my apartment, and my transit app reported possible subway interruption. Ugh! Cancel culture, after three days of extraordinary weather, somehow won the play card again. Why hadn’t I seen the opera on opening night on Thursday?

“71 Minutes of Movement:” Dance and Activism in the Twin Cities

Posted by Corynn Harvieux | 18th Jul 2026 | Essay, Review, Theatre and Dance, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

As a dance artist, you are, at a young age, bestowed with the supposed gift to make people feel....

Wondering Jews

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 17th Jul 2026 | Review, Theatre and Religion, United States of America

Jonathan Spector’s new play Birthright—just opened at MCC Theater in a sharp, superbly acted...

Spring Roundup 2026

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 16th Jul 2026 | Musical Theatre, Producing, Review, United States of America

Once again, the forsythias are in bloom, and that means new openings are arriving way too fast for...

Cross-Border Collaboration

Posted by Joseph Bardin | 15th Jul 2026 | Israel, Review, Syria, Transcultural Collaborations, United States of America

We were wrapping rehearsal for the reading of my play Seeing Maya, a Tel Aviv love story, at the...

Harsh And Relentless Social Criticism In Kosky’s Production Of Brecht’s “Threepenny Opera” At The Berliner Ensemble

Posted by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe | 14th Jul 2026 | Acting, Directing, Germany, Review

In nearly all productions of Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera I had seen up to this one, I was struck...

Boundary Problems

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 12th Jul 2026 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

For the second time in two years, a flashy, big-budget Romeo and Juliet has opened in New York...

“Sinfonia”: Stories from Harrogate

Posted by Xunnan Li | 10th Jul 2026 | Review, United Kingdom

Sinfonia is a play in which older people of the local community take to the stage to share fragments of their lives. We may not often stop to imagine what growing old will feel like. Will we become trapped within bodies that no longer move as they once did? Will everyday tasks become more difficult? Will we lose the energy and freedom of youth? Sinfonia does not answer these questions directly but gently invites us to reflect on them.