A Festival of Imported Importance: BIAF 2026 and the Provincialism of Prestige
There are at least two ways for an international arts festival to be provincial. The first is...
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Following The Herd
Return of the Buffalo – Tatanka Owe Akupi On September 18, I made my way down to the...
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Staatstheater Oldenburg’s “Art And Democracy” Season Scores With A Revival Of “Cabaret”
It has been a long-established tradition for many theatres in Germany to place their seasons and...
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Artistic Production Belongs To The Changing World Of Things
An Interview with remarkable Mr. Velimir Abramović (Belgrade, Serbia), a Tesla scholar and an...
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German Summer Festival Theatre (4): An Open-Air “Midsummer Night’s Dream” By The Bremer Shakespeare Company
The bremer shakespeare company was founded in Bremen in 1983 by a collective of nine theatre...
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Julia Masli, Please Let Me In Your Cult
I don’t know how she did it, but by the end of Julia Masli’s ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, performed at...
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Michaela Coel’s “Chewing Gum Dreams” at Theatre 503: Revival Of 2012 Contemporary Classic Is Terrific
Some monologues are so personal you can’t imagine another actor doing them. Right? Wrong! I’ve...
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Crime On The German Stage (1): Comedy
On German TV, each channel has its set of regular crime drama. For example, there is the...
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“Kramer/Fauci” at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival
The year is 1993. The 24-hour news cycle is roughly a decade into its existence. The first...
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Ntozake Shange’s “for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf” at The Yard Theatre: Legendary 1970s Choreopoem Finally Arrives In London
Some legendary shows are rarely revived, rarely seen in London: one of these is surely Ntozake...
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Les Misérables: “…a bombshell in the musical theatre industry”. An exclusive interview with Claude-Michel Schönberg and Jean-Pierre Van Der Spuy
The musical Les Misérables, written by composer Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil...
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Rosalind Adler and Lea Sellers’s “Holy Fool” at Park Theatre: The Life Of Shostakovich Gets The Bio-Drama Treatment
Okay, it’s a very familiar problem: how do you create drama out of an artist’s life? Most great...
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Benedict Andrews’s “Electra/Persona” at the National Theatre: This Study In Ambiguity And Contradiction Is Pointless As Well As Gripping
“What if?” is a really provocative question. What if Greek tragedy is really about mental illness?...
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“Bérénice” by Racine, adapted and directed by Romeo Castelucci, on tour at Gothenburg Dance and Theatre Festival
Romeo Castelucci – primarily renowned for the singularity of his aesthetic vision developed over...
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German Summer Festival Theatre (3): An Open Air “The Cherry Orchard”
Theater Poetenpack was founded in 1998 by Andreas Hueck, who has continued as its artistic manager...
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In the Mind’s Eye: Collective Imagination at the Edinburgh Fringe 2026
I started my Edinburgh Fringe 2026 lying down. On a white bunk bed – a middle height one of a...
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Beyond the Velvet Ropes: Inside Lincoln Center’s Next Act
For Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, home to the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan...
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From Bacon to Bananas: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2026 in 24 Shows
With more than 4,200 shows making up this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, twenty-four...
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A Fish Swimming Across Tanks: An Interview with Taiwanese Playwright Yu-Hsuan Chou
Even with solid training in xiqu, or Chinese opera, Yu-Hsuan Chou tried to leave traditions behind...
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Most Importantly, The Child Should Experience How Theatre Can Make Kindness, Patience, Courage And Curiosity Matter
An interview with Laouni Bellil, a gentle and inspiring Algerian storyteller and theatre maker....
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