Contexto Teatral: New Online Archive for Spanish Contemporary Playwrights
A new space has been created to give visibility to contemporary playwrights in Spain and to make...
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Playwriting
Elfriede Jelinek’s 70th Birthday
In the course of her life, Elfriede Jelinek, who recently turned seventy, has written over thirty...
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David Henry Hwang Finds the Words
A world class librettist, David Henry Hwang’s career has been noted for success in Opera, Musical...
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Interview With Mohammad Yaghoubi, Acclaimed Iranian Playwright and Director
Acclaimed Iranian playwright Mohammad Yaghoubi was in Toronto directing the Canadian premiere of...
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Contemporary New Play Development in Italy: A Playwright Shares Her Experience
“While Italy this year is celebrating 150 years as a single nation state, in many fields any sense of unity is still tenuous. Theatre and contemporary playwriting are no exceptions to this rule.” – Margaret Rose
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New Plays in Germany
The new theatre texts that have been presented in the 2015/16 season at play markets in...
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Nassim, A Breeze From Iran that Stirred Global Theatre Scene
Playwright Nassim Soleimanpour grabbed the attention of international theatre community by his...
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Thomas Manuel Wins The Hindu Playwright Award 2016 for His Play “Hamlet and Angad”
Thomas Manuel was one of three shortlisted playwrights, the other two being Meera Sitharaman for...
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From China With Love: Tang Xianzu was the Shakespeare of the Orient
In his 400th anniversary year, Shakespeare is still rightly celebrated as a great wordsmith and...
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Korean Theatre in the First Half of 2016: New Works
Compared to productions of Western or Korean classics, Broadway revivals or original musicals,...
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Playwriting In Australia
The first Australian National Playwrights Centre (ANPC) was founded in 1973 – the age of bongs,...
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Lost Translations: What We Lose by Ignoring Plays That Aren’t in English
Bojana Janković calls out British theatre’s extreme reluctance to stage plays that...
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Russian Comedies Shake Up UK Theaters
British stages have long been in love with Anton Chekhov and Nikolai Gogol, but there is...
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“Fascinating Inharmoniousness” With Playwright Anna Gschnitzer
College of inspiration from playwright Anna Gschnitzer’s desk. Do plays require a different...
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Zainichi Dramas Delve Into Japan’s Shadows
“At last, the masterpiece Yakiniku Dragon (Korean Barbecue Dragon) is going to be staged again!”...
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“King Lear” Reincarnates As Geoffrey Rush–It’s A Bloody Tragedy
In one sense every play staged is a play for its times. Something about it attracts, provokes or...
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John Freedman on New Russian Drama
Aleena Karim interviews John Freedman, an acclaimed American critic, translator and playwright, on...
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Playwriting Doesn’t Get Better Or Worse–But It Does Evolve
This is a long-read essay, the third in a series on playwriting and drama by Julian Meyrick. Read...
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Need A Stage Coach? Why Some Plays Work, And Others Don’t
We all know whether a given play, film or TV drama “works” or not, but it’s often difficult to...
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Western Sydney Meets The City In Nakkiah Lui’s “Kill The Messenger”
Last week I went to the theatre. Unusual? No. But I say this because this event was real theatre...
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