Nikoletta Soumelidis’s Spent at the Old Red Lion Theatre: Intriguing And Suggestive Exploration Of Gender Roles
One of the joys of contemporary playwriting is its openness to flexible casting. In Ruby Thomas’s...
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Nick Payne’s One Day When We Were Young at Park Theatre: Time-Hopping Love Story Is Restrained By The Slenderness of the Plot
How long would you wait for your soulmate? In “The Demon Lover”, a short story by Elizabeth Bowen,...
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Bridging Worlds: Bahram Beyzaie’s “Naqqali Trilogy” Wins The 2024 ASTR Translation Award Prize
In November, the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) awarded the 2024 Translation Prize...
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Coral Wylie’s Lavender, Hyacinth, Violet, Yew at the Bush Theatre: Tender And Original Debut About The Black Queer Experience
Diaries are dynamite — they hold secrets, and secrets can tear families apart. In Coral Wylie’s...
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Laura Horton’s Lynn Faces at the New Diorama Theatre: Surreal Gig Theatre Event Explores Coercive Control Through Comedy
British people are socially awkward: this explains why we talk about the weather, queue...
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Playwriting Awards in Taiwan: Recognition and Reality
Playwriting awards have always been a promised land for playwrights. For emerging storytellers,...
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There Is Nothing To Know About The Theatre, There Is Everything To Discover About Theatre
An Interview with playwright, dramaturg and director – Simona Semenic (Ljubljana, Slovenia)...
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Philip Ridley’s Tarantula at the Arcola Theatre: Blazingly Emotive And Beautifully Poetic Account Of Trauma From A Master Penman
Even the best streamed theatre can’t compete with the live version. It’s simple — with this art...
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The Fire This Time Festival Enters Its 16th Year
Finding artists, nurturing them, supporting them. Seeing their work to fruition, and creating a community of support. We really try to do this at the Apollo New Works, too. It’s really how we continue to keep people and community.
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Ché Walker’s Burnt-Up Love at the Finborough Theatre: Crime and Redemption In A Shining Gem Of A Show
Fringe venues perform a vital role on the ecology of London theatre. While many shows at these...
Read MorePlaywriting The “Next Generation.” How To Create A Character At The University Of Arts In Târgu-Mureș.
Ingeborg von Zadow and Elise Wilk in dialogue with Anda Cadariu Fabulamundi. Playwriting Europe. New Voices is a European project which aims to bring contemporary playwriting closer to the younger generations, addressing young...
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New Buds on a Fertile Island: New Play Development in Taiwan, Part 1
New writing stretches the boundaries of theatre arts. Though writing may seem a solitary...
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New Buds on a Fertile Island: New Play Development in Taiwan, Part 2
To read PART I of this essay, go to this link. Prologue Center for New Plays Having worked...
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Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s Theatre Festival Featured A Range Of Themes
Tiruchiyai Meetta Sundarapandiyan and Blackout — two plays with different plots were presented...
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Sergio Blanco’s “When You Pass Over My Tomb” at the Arcola Theatre: Exquisite Meta-Theatrical Exploration Of Death and Necrophilia
Nowadays it seems that it’s the fringe and Off-West End venues that are keeping the spirit of...
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Jez Butterworth’s “The Hills of California” at the Harold Pinter Theatre: Warm Evocation of 1950s Pop Culture Is Fun, But Lacks Dramatic Resolution
In West End theatre, the cliché that nothing succeeds like success keeps the wheels of commerce...
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“El Lector Por Horas/Reader By The Hours.” A Successful Spanish Play That Also Deserves To Be A Global Hit
Sanchis Sinisterra is a Spanish playwright with a long career and many successes who is in the...
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Marilyn Monroe – The Family Babysitter: Luke Yankee and the Creation of “Marilyn, Mom & Me”
This February, International City Theatre will present the world premiere of a new play, Marilyn,...
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Shifting the Spotlight: Exploring the Scarcity of Female Voices in Iraqi Theatre
Upon the release of Contemporary Plays from Iraq in 2017, my focus shifted to translating works...
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Jack Thorne’s “The Motive and the Cue” at the Noël Coward Theatre: Jack Thorne’s History Play About Gielgud And Burton Transfers To The West End
This transfer of Jack Thorne’s hit National Theatre play to the West End has been hailed as...
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