About “Fair Play”
It’s a sign of the times that one of my last trips of the year, to Ella Road’s Fair Play at the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 16th Jan 2022 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
It’s a sign of the times that one of my last trips of the year, to Ella Road’s Fair Play at the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 14th Jan 2022 | Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
At the end of the 1960s, American soul poet Gil Scott-Heron said that the revolution will not be...
Read MorePosted by Suzi Elnaggar | 13th Jan 2022 | Covid-19, Dramaturgy, Mexico, Review, United States of America
In the face of many challenges in Summer 2021, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts...
Read MorePosted by Adam Ashraf Elsayigh | 12th Jan 2022 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Where and when: Harry J. Elam, Jr. Theater at Stanford University from November 11, 12, 13, 18,...
Read MorePosted by Natalie Hanna | 7th Jan 2022 | Adaptation, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
It could be easy to assume that The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories written in Middle...
Read MorePosted by Alexander Fatouros | 3rd Jan 2022 | Boston, Review, Theatre and Art, Transmedia, United States of America
A daring and nuanced documentary virtual theatre piece about Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany...
Read MorePosted by Sindhu Nagaraj | 2nd Jan 2022 | India, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Gender
The classic play ‘Dance Like a Man’ captures the subtle undertones found in familial...
Read MorePosted by Tonderai Chiyindiko | 1st Jan 2022 | Review, South Africa, Theatre and Dance
Metsi, staged at the State Theatre is a daring and brave production in how it includes elements of...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 31st Dec 2021 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
A couple of days ago, I watched a live stream of Milk and Gall, an American-based playwright and...
Read MorePosted by Sakina Mirichii | 30th Dec 2021 | Kenya, Participatory Theatre, Review, Theatre and Disability
Ten mentor Mothers and one Father, devised theatre, drama therapy, healing, and community...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 29th Dec 2021 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Is the Bosnian conflict of 1992–95 the war that Europe forgot? Maybe, although most fans of new...
Read MorePosted by Tonderai Chiyindiko | 28th Dec 2021 | Musical Theatre, Review, South Africa
Shaka Zulu: The Gaping Wound currently running at the South African State Theatre in Pretoria, and...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 26th Dec 2021 | Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
After lockdown, the stage monologue saved British theatre. At venue after venue, cash-strapped...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 23rd Dec 2021 | Adaptation, New York, Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America
As most people reading this will already know, Company was first reworked for a female Bobbie...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 20th Dec 2021 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
The National Theatre has a good record in staging classic American drama by black playwrights....
Read MorePosted by Tonderai Chiyindiko | 19th Dec 2021 | Review, South Africa, Theatre for Young Audiences
A day at the National Children’s Theatre in the magical IMAGINATION Outdoor Theatre is a day like...
Read MorePosted by Fareeda Pyracha Ahmed | 16th Dec 2021 | New York, Review, Theatre and Opera, United States of America
If you’ve never seen an opera before, start here. If you’ve seen a ton of opera before, re-start...
Read MorePosted by Lara Cox | 15th Dec 2021 | Adaptation, France, Musical Theatre, Review, Translation
A week after Josephine Baker posthumously entered the French Panthéon, a musical about two...
Read MorePosted by Mert Dilek | 13th Dec 2021 | London, Musical Theatre, Review, United Kingdom
Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome! Come on in: we need, after all, some respite from a world in...
Read MorePosted by WeekendSpecial.Co | 12th Dec 2021 | Acting, Review, South Africa, Transcultural Collaborations
Krotoa Eva van de Kaap is a moving music theatre production that was first performed in The...
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