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David Greenspan’s One-Man, 6-Hour Performance of Eugene O’Neill’s “Strange Interlude”

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 30th Oct 2017 | Acting, Review, United States of America

The most interesting question about David Greenspan’s one-man, 6-hour performance of Eugene...

Thomas Ostermeier’s “Richard III” at BAM

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 17th Oct 2017 | Acting, Germany, Review

Richard Crookback is Shakespeare’s dazzling carnival monster, a showoff criminal who charms us...

David Storey’s “The March On Russia” at Orange Tree Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 1st Oct 2017 | Acting, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom

The family celebration drama is a genre that had its heyday in the 1960s when social mobility made...

The Inability to Fill the Void: Eduardo Orozco’s “Asatia”

Posted by Margarita Vargas | 22nd Sep 2017 | Acting, Mexico

Premise: The protagonist in Eduardo Orozco’s play Asatia discovers that dedicating...

What Is the Relationship Between Acting and Transmedia? Part II

Posted by Belén Santa-Olalla | 28th Jul 2017 | Acting, Europe, Transmedia

This is the second blog post looking at acting and transmedia. It identifies several key...

The Beginner’s Guide To Acting And Transmedia

Posted by Belén Santa-Olalla | 10th Jul 2017 | Acting, Spain, Transmedia

This is the first of a series of blog posts that look at the role of the actor in a transmedia...

“Brodsky/Baryshnikov”: The Art of Poetic Memory

Posted by Irene Kukota | 27th Jun 2017 | Acting, Review, Russia

From the cultural perspective, London is an extremely privileged city: the delights it enjoys are...

Interview: Ha Sung-kwang as Cheng Ying in “The Orphan of Zhao: Seeds of Revenge”

Posted by Kim Soyeon | 8th Jun 2017 | Acting, Adaptation, Interview, South Korea, Translation

The Orphan of Zhao: Seeds of Revenge was staged again recently. The premiere production was an...

Sex, Masturbation, And Dementia: A Review Of David Baddiel’s “My Family: Not The Sitcom”

Posted by Alice Jones | 22nd May 2017 | Acting, London, Review, United Kingdom

“The question is,” says David Baddiel a short while into the second half of his one-man show about...

Interview with Amy Aquino

Posted by Krista Jarboe | 11th May 2017 | Acting, Interview, Los Angeles, United States of America

You may have seen Amy Aquino grazing the big screen as Miss Martinez in White Oleander or Alice...

The Actor is the Message: An Interview with Sophie Rois

Posted by Barbara Behrendt | 28th Apr 2017 | Acting, Germany, Interview

The actress Sophie Rois on performing without a role, the life of an actress at the Berlin...

Interview With Oliver Chris: “I’ve Lived My Whole Life With People Saying ‘When Are You Going to Be Prince William?’”

Posted by Alice Jones | 13th Mar 2017 | Acting, Interview, London, United Kingdom

“I didn’t think this was what I would be doing when I left drama school,” says Oliver Chris. What...

A Discussion With Peter Brombacher: Acting And The Importance Of The Ensemble

Posted by Silvia Stammen | 20th Feb 2017 | Acting, Germany

An interview with the actor Peter Brombacher, actor and a permanent member of the Münchner...

Song of the Goat Sings the Tragedy of Cordelia in “Songs of Lear”

Posted by KaiChieh Tu | 5th Dec 2016 | Acting, Adaptation, Essay, Poland, Theatre and Gender

Devising their works in a 13th-century refractory and former monastery in Wrocław’s Old Town, Song...

The Life and Death of Maria Alice Vergueiro

Posted by Marco Vasques and Rubens da Cunha | 26th Oct 2016 | Acting, Brazil, News

When someone asked Maria Alice Vergueiro what would people talk about her after her death, she...

The Myth of Eleonora Duse: A Photographic Exhibition in Venice, at the Giorgio Cini Foundation

Posted by Maria Pia Pagani | 18th Oct 2016 | Acting, Italy, News

In November 2011, in Venice, the Giorgio Cini Foundation officially opened a new permanent space...

An Actor’s Future-Not Even Television Will Save Them

Posted by Manuel de Loren | 4th Sep 2016 | Acting, Essay

In Spain, as everywhere, working in your trade—and not any other area—is not easy for everyone. Only forty-six actors and actresses out of a hundred could find work between 2014 and 2016. And almost a third of the acting professionals live under the poverty threshold and almost two thirds move between meager and just decent earnings.