Barbarians in Midtown
The Terrence McNally/Stephen Flaherty/Lynn Ahrens musical Ragtime is not the subtlest theater...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 22nd Oct 2025 | Musical Theatre, Review, United States of America
The Terrence McNally/Stephen Flaherty/Lynn Ahrens musical Ragtime is not the subtlest theater...
Read MorePosted by Victoria Zavyalova | 20th Oct 2025 | Directing, Germany, Review, United States of America
In All Right. Good Night., German docu-theater artist Helgard Haug turns loss into a language. The...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 15th Oct 2025 | Directing, Review, United States of America
Absurd as it may seem, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, a demanding play about existential...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 14th Oct 2025 | Adaptation, Review, United States of America
James Graham’s play Punch tells the true story of a shiftless, belligerent rowdy who heedlessly...
Read MorePosted by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe | 10th Oct 2025 | Directing, Germany, Review
The small district of Schnoor in the northern German city of Bremen, consisting of some 100...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 5th Oct 2025 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Among the most depressing facets of Donald Trump’s pathology is how all-consuming his hunger for...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 30th Sep 2025 | Documentary Theatre, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Broken Britain has a big problem with youth. About a million of those aged 16 to 24 are NEETs (not...
Read MorePosted by Emilija Kvočka | 30th Sep 2025 | Montenegro, Review, Theatre and Dance
“By the term theatre we do not only mean its expressive linguistic side, but also the cultural,...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 26th Sep 2025 | Acting, Dramaturgy, London, Review, United Kingdom
Perhaps it’s an indicator of the feebleness of new writing after the pandemic that so many of the...
Read MorePosted by Victoria Zavyalova | 19th Sep 2025 | Adaptation, New York, Review, United States of America
With minimal décor and symbolism in every gesture, The Mutt — an adaptation of Dostoevsky’s The...
Read MorePosted by Marta Bryś | 11th Sep 2025 | Festivals, Poland, Review
The International Shakespeare Festival in Gdańsk is not the festival of masterpieces and it never...
Read MorePosted by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe | 9th Sep 2025 | Directing, Germany, Review
At German theatres, some assistant directors are employed for the duration of a production, from...
Read MorePosted by Cristina Modreanu | 30th Aug 2025 | New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
In a world where the rule is to make huge efforts to attain an “effortless, relaxed” look, the new...
Read MorePosted by Mert Dilek | 28th Aug 2025 | Edinburgh 2025, Review, United Kingdom
This year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe was as sprawling and invigorating as ever, and expectedly...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 27th Aug 2025 | Edinburgh 2025, Review, United Kingdom
Writer-actor Alan Bissett’s When Billy met Alasdair imagines what happened when Alasdair Gray...
Read MorePosted by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe | 25th Aug 2025 | Festivals, Germany, Review
In 1997, an association was founded in the German city of Verden on the river Aller, located...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 25th Aug 2025 | Edinburgh 2025, Festivals, Review, United Kingdom
Emma Frankland’s No Apologies achieves something genuinely rare: a radical reimagining that...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 25th Aug 2025 | Edinburgh 2025, Festivals, Review, United Kingdom
Anemone Valcke and Verona Verbakel’s The Ego emerges from Ontroerend Goed’s theatrical...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 25th Aug 2025 | Edinburgh 2025, Festivals, Review, United Kingdom
What is the purpose of performing arts when the stakes are literally life and death? Pussy...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 25th Aug 2025 | Edinburgh 2025, Festivals, Review, United Kingdom
The Belgian Company Ontroerend Goed have been coming to the Edinburgh Fringe for so long that I...
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The Queen of Versailles Musical or the Funeral of… by Lisa Monde 29th October 2025
“Trilogia Cadela Força – Capítulo II:… by Jenny Strataki 6th August 2025 
“Aşınma” (“Corrosion”): A… by Seda Ilter 23rd November 2025
The Filmed Performance “Woodland Bird… by Martin Blaszk 9th November 2025 

James Graham’s “Punch” at the Apollo Theatre:… by Aleks Sierz 30th September 2025 
Nearly Finished by Jonathan Kalb 15th November 2025