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In Conversation With Deniz Başar: “Wine&Halva” – A Play That Tests The Limits Of Friendship Within Canadian Institutional Racism (Part I)

Posted by Marjan Moosavi | 4th Jul 2020 | Canada, Interview, Playwriting, Turkey

In April 2020 Wine&Halva, a play by Turkish playwright and theater researcher Deniz Başar, had...

Angella Emurwon: Writing For Me Is Like Breathing

Posted by Ian Kiyingi Muddu | 6th Jun 2020 | Interview, Playwriting, Uganda

Angella Emurwon is a playwright, theatre director and filmmaker. The name ‘Emurwon’ means seer,...

Lloyd Lutara: The Ugandan Artist Who Refuses to Box a Story

Posted by James Montaño | 4th Jun 2020 | Interview, Playwriting, Uganda

Lloyd Lutara (LL) is a multi-form storyteller writing and producing theatre, film, fiction and...

Anya Richkind: The Spontaneous Playwright in Experimental Theatre

Posted by Ziming Jim Liu | 9th May 2020 | Interview, Playwriting, United States of America

Anya Richkind is an emerging Brooklyn-based playwright who has taken many different roles in...

Interview with Playwright David Lescot

Posted by Guillaume Clayssen | 13th Apr 2020 | France, Interview, Playwriting

Guillaume Clayssen, a fellow playwright, interviewed David Lescot on his newest piece in June 2016...

Samia Jaheen: The Story of All Stories

Posted by Amira El-Noshokaty | 9th Apr 2020 | Egypt, News, Playwriting, Theatre for Young Audiences

Samia Jaheen’s performance was part of the 10th Hakawy International Arts Festival for...

“New Dramaturgies:” Insights Into Mark Bly’s Playwriting Exercises. Interview with Mark Bly

Posted by Mary Davies | 4th Apr 2020 | Books, Dramaturgy, Interview, Playwriting, United States of America

Mark Bly is an American dramaturg, editor, and lecturer. He was the chair of the MFA Playwriting...

Paranoia at the Fore in Steppenwolf’s Revival of Tracy Letts’s “Bug”

Posted by Maria Delgado | 2nd Apr 2020 | Chicago, Playwriting, Review, United States of America

Tracy Letts’s Bug may be fourteen years old, but this tale of a couple convinced that they are...

Examining “A Black and White Cookie”

Posted by Cate Cammarata | 12th Mar 2020 | Interview, New York, Playwriting, United States of America

We can’t discuss unpleasant historical events or why you or I voted for that candidate without generating anger and accusations. A society which is afraid to think and respectfully consider different points of view will inevitably degrade its ability to understand. Then what?

Welcome to the Age of the Latina Nerd: “I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter” at Steppenwolf For Young Adults

Posted by Trevor Boffone | 8th Mar 2020 | Chicago, Playwriting, Review, Theatre for Young Audiences, United States of America

Welcome to the Age of the Latina Nerd! Anywhere you look—on stage, on screen, on the written page,...

Who Am I, The Author? But Who Is The Author?: An Interview With Ulrike Syha

Posted by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar | 7th Mar 2020 | Germany, Interview, Playwriting

Ulrike Syha was born in 1976 in Wiesbaden, Germany. She studied Dramaturgy at the Hochschule für...

Janice Okoh’s “The Gift” at the Theatre Royal Stratford East: Complex and Powerful Account of Race and Empire

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 1st Feb 2020 | Nigeria, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom

Queen Victoria is a strong symbol of the old British Empire. For some 200 years, up to the 1950s,...

Alexandra Wood’s “The Tyler Sisters” at the Hampstead Theatre: The Future Is Female In Epic Family Saga

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 16th Jan 2020 | Acting, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom

What has Saint Augustine of Hippo got to do with new writing? At first sight, not very much. That...

Tom Morton-Smith’s “Ravens: Spassky Vs Fischer” at the Hampstead Theatre: Real-Life Cold War Chess Match

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 8th Dec 2019 | Documentary Theatre, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom, United States of America

Today, we call it soft power. During the Cold War it was more like success at any cost—and by any...

Ian Kershaw’s “The Greatest Play in the History of the World” at the Trafalgar Studios: Science Fantasy Hymn to Love

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 1st Dec 2019 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom

Naturalism is both the best thing about British theatre, being democratic and comprehensible by...

David Baddiel’s “God’s Dice” at the Soho Theatre: Mid-Life Crisis as Science Confronts Religion

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 9th Nov 2019 | Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Religion, Theatre and Science, United Kingdom

One of the great cultural divides is that between religion and science. Of course, as novels such...

Arinzé Kene’s “Little Baby Jesus” at the Orange Tree Theatre: Lyrical, Energetic and Wise Coming-of-Age Drama

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 26th Oct 2019 | London, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Age, United Kingdom

Wow. Just wow. The moment you enter the auditorium of this venue it’s immediately obvious that...

The Enduring Tale Of “Imam-E-Hind”

Posted by Anuj Kumar | 12th Oct 2019 | India, Playwriting, Review

Ahead of the première of Dastaan-e-Ram, writer Danish Iqbal discusses the joys and challenges of...

Dublin Fringe Festival 2019: Women in Flux

Posted by Síofra Ní Shluaghadháin | 10th Oct 2019 | Festivals, Ireland, News, Playwriting, Theatre and Gender

The Dublin Fringe Festival celebrates its 25th year this year and duly provided the Irish capital its characteristic combination of artistry, controlled chaos and thought-provoking content. The stated theme of Dublin Fringe 25,...