“The Divine Mrs S,” Hampstead Theatre
British theatre’s love of theatre about theatre offers a chance for some moments of meta, but do...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 1st May 2024 | Documentary Theatre, Review, United Kingdom
British theatre’s love of theatre about theatre offers a chance for some moments of meta, but do...
Read MorePosted by Julie Andrews | 23rd Mar 2024 | Australia, Documentary Theatre, Review
Guernsey number 37 belonged to Aboriginal star football player Adam Goodes when he played for...
Read MorePosted by David O'Donnell | 5th Feb 2024 | Documentary Theatre, New Zealand, Theatre and Age
In a year in which 77-year-old Dolly Parton recorded her first rock record, the octogenarian...
Read MorePosted by David Turner | 20th Nov 2023 | Documentary Theatre, Review, United Kingdom
Dear England, a play about football manager Gareth Southgate, immaculately encapsulates the light...
Read MorePosted by Barbara Gabriel | 10th Oct 2023 | Canada, Documentary Theatre, Review
When you head out of London on Highway 4 North, it is almost a straight line through to Lucan,...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 19th Sep 2023 | Documentary Theatre, India, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Nobodies who kill somebodies: let’s make a list. Okay, there’s Lee Harvey Oswald (JFK), James Earl...
Read MorePosted by Anasuya Menon | 21st May 2023 | Documentary Theatre, India, Interview, Theatre and Disability
Sylvia, a play scripted and directed by Athira Nikathil, is an intimate portrayal of the life of...
Read MorePosted by Timmy De Laet | 7th May 2023 | Belgium, Documentary Theatre, Review, Theatre and Dance, Worldwide
An imaginary trip with the god of dance While he was often called le dieu de la danse, Vaslav...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 2nd Apr 2023 | Devised Theatre, Documentary Theatre, New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom, United States of America
Alexander Zeldin’s Love— a much-celebrated, quietly confrontational, British-devised piece from...
Read MorePosted by Emily Cordes | 29th Mar 2023 | Documentary Theatre, Interview, New York, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
TRACES is a new devised documentary theater piece presented by the investigative theatre group...
Read MorePosted by Mert Dilek | 8th Dec 2022 | Documentary Theatre, London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
TV is a strange medium, but James Graham is no stranger to its toxic charm. London audiences have...
Read MorePosted by Morgan Skolnik | 18th Nov 2022 | Documentary Theatre, New York, Review, Theatre and Religion, United States of America
The Unbelieving is documentary theater (all the lines are taken from real interviews), but this...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 10th Nov 2022 | Documentary Theatre, London, Playwriting, Theatre and Decolonization, United Kingdom
Sudha Bhuchar’s Evening Conversations at the Soho Theatre: a calmly intelligent exploration of family identity
Read MorePosted by David O'Donnell | 6th May 2021 | Documentary Theatre, New Zealand, Review, Theatre and Politics
Transmission written by Stuart McKenzie. Directed by Miranda Harcourt and Stuart McKenzie. 20...
Read MorePosted by Irina Yakubovskaya | 23rd Oct 2020 | Belarus, Documentary Theatre, Interview, Theatre and Politics, Transcultural Collaborations
The new play Insulted. Belarus(sia) was written in September 2020 by Andrei Kureichik, a prominent...
Read MorePosted by Susanna Weygandt | 28th Aug 2020 | Documentary Theatre, Review, Russia, Theatre and Politics
Documentary dramas engage the audience with social issues, and in Russia, documentary drama...
Read MorePosted by Mila Bulimbasic Botteri | 7th Jul 2020 | Croatia, Documentary Theatre, Review
What have millennial women fought for? “Did we fight for that? Why we fought for nothing,” cries...
Read MorePosted by Mila Bulimbasic Botteri | 1st Jun 2020 | Bosnia, Documentary Theatre, Review
“Who was human before the war, remained so”, says one of the actors in the beginning of the play...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 25th Apr 2020 | Documentary Theatre, Review, Theatre and Film, United Kingdom
Artemisia Gentileschi definitely had a hard time. Although she was an outstanding Renaissance...
Read MorePosted by Lavinia Roberts | 25th Apr 2020 | Documentary Theatre, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Herrin Made was a play written and performed in the United States’ deeply rural area of Southern...
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