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“Assassinating Katie Hopkins” May Be Bad Taste But Theatre-Goers May Just Love It

Posted by Len Collin | 24th Oct 2017 | Musical Theatre, Review, United Kingdom

Katie Hopkins, the controversial British media commentator, has become the subject of a new stage...

Wanton Desire Proves To Be Timeless And Borderless In Japanese Version Of “Les Liaisons Dangereuses”

Posted by Nobuko Tanaka | 24th Oct 2017 | Directing, Japan, Review

The route that has brought Richard Twyman to Tokyo to direct an all-Japanese cast in a play based...

“Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle” at Wyndham’s Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 24th Oct 2017 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom

Playwright Simon Stephens and director Marianne Elliott are hyped as a winning partnership. Their...

Should Disabled-Led Organizations Take More Responsibility For Access Than Mainstream Ones?

Posted by Charlie Swinbourne | 24th Oct 2017 | Scotland, Theatre and Disability

A couple of weeks ago, I moderated an inclusion panel at the Edinburgh Film Festival where I...

Taylor Mac Makes History At Melbourne Festival Opening With “The Inauguration”

Posted by Sarah Balkin | 23rd Oct 2017 | Australia, Musical Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America

Taylor Mac described The Inauguration, which helped launch the 2017 Melbourne Festival, as “a...

Syrian Dancers Perform Show About Refugees and Migration in Berlin

Posted by The Theatre Times | 23rd Oct 2017 | Germany, Syria, Theatre and Dance

A group of Syrian dancers is going on tour across Germany with a show that tells of the plight...

“Caravan” Delivers A Glimpse Of Women On The Edge With Sweet Comedy

Posted by Sandra D'urso | 23rd Oct 2017 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Gender

Despite its forays into dark subject matter, Caravan, staged as part of the Melbourne Festival, is...

Kwame Kwei-Armah Has Been Named New Artistic Director Of The Young Vic

Posted by The Theatre Times | 23rd Oct 2017 | London, News, United Kingdom

“You’re told you can’t do this. I’ve tried to go: yes we can.” The new artistic director of...

“Unknown” Polish Directors: Agata Duda-Gracz

Posted by Kasia Lech | 22nd Oct 2017 | Directing, Essay, Poland

This series introduces Polish directors whose work is recognized in Poland, but they are...

A Report On Iran’s Traditional And Ritual Theatre Festival

Posted by Farhang Farbod | 22nd Oct 2017 | Festivals, Iran, Review

The 18th Traditional and Ritual Theatre Festival was held September 1–6 in Tehran. The festival...

Ping Chong + Company Presents “ALAXSXA | ALASKA”

Posted by Heather Waters | 21st Oct 2017 | New York, Puppetry, Review, Theatre and Art, United States of America

Ping Chong + Company’s show ALAXSXA | ALASKA subverts an overused Western storyline of people as...

Francis Poulenc’s “Midnight In Paris” (“La Voix Humaine”) In Beijing

Posted by Cheng-Han Wu | 21st Oct 2017 | Belgium, China, Festivals, Review, Theatre and Opera, Transcultural Collaborations

Belgium’s new opera company Muziektheater Transparant is invited by the 2017 Beijing Music...

Amsterdam’s Symposium On Cultural Translation

Posted by Christopher Harris | 21st Oct 2017 | Dramaturgy, Netherlands, Transcultural Collaborations, Translation

Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum asserted itself as the watering hole for a universal collective of people congregating on the subject of cultural translation within a dramaturgical framework, which alone begins as a intriguing idea, given that the collective arrived out of the rain from many corners of the globe.