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Navigating Korea and America: Meet Hansol Jung, Playwright of “Wild Goose Dreams” and “Cardboard Piano”

Posted by Walter Byongsok Chon | 14th Feb 2019 | Interview, Playwriting, South Korea

Hansol Jung is a playwright and director from South Korea. Her plays include Wild Goose Dreams (La...

Who Is The Greatest Living British Playwright?

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 20th Jan 2019 | Essay, Playwriting, United Kingdom

There is a simple dinner-party game that can be played at no ostensible cost. The host asks, “Who...

Sin Muros: Interview with “City Without Altar” Poet and Playwright Jasminne Mendez

Posted by Trevor Boffone | 10th Jan 2019 | Festivals, Interview, Playwriting, United States of America

This February, writer Jasminne Mendez’s City Without Altar will receive a staged reading at Stages...

Sin Muros: Interview with “Then They Forgot About the Rest” Playwright Georgina Escobar

Posted by Trevor Boffone | 7th Jan 2019 | Festivals, Interview, Playwriting, United States of America

This February, playwright Georgina Escobar’s Then They Forgot About the Rest will receive a staged...

A Warrior Princess In The Coffee Shop

Posted by Gowri S | 3rd Dec 2018 | India, News, Playwriting

Isheeta Ganguly’s Sundays With Chitra And Chaitali brings to life once again, the tale of the...

An Interview With Playwright Alexis Roblan

Posted by Grace Power | 18th Nov 2018 | Interview, New York, Playwriting, United States of America

Alexis Roblan graduated from the University of Southern California’s MFA in Dramatic Writing...

It’s Ella Hickson’s Moment (Of Honesty)

Posted by Riley Rudy | 7th Nov 2018 | Interview, London, Playwriting, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom

How her truth split critics and why she doesn’t really care Ella Hickson stopped worrying...

David Edgar’s “Trying It On” At The Royal Court

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 28th Oct 2018 | London, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom

Playwright David Edgar is lucky. To begin with, he appreciates his luck in having been born in...

Robert Alan Evans’s “The Woods” at The Royal Court

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 18th Oct 2018 | Acting, London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom

Blackout. Dark, the color of childhood fear. Black, the color of despair. Black. No light visible;...

Vinay Patel’s “An Adventure”: An Epic Reading of One Asian Family’s Global Migration Story

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 17th Oct 2018 | London, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom

Director Madani Younis, who since 2011 has transformed the Bush Theatre in West London into one of...

Jo Clifford’s “Losing Venice” at The Orange Tree Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 15th Oct 2018 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, London, Playwriting, Review, Scotland, United Kingdom

English-born and Scottish-based playwright Jo Clifford has been an astonishingly energetic and...

Creative Strokes On A Historical Canvas: On Girish Karnad’s New Play “Rakshasa Tangadi”

Posted by Deepa Ganesh | 10th Oct 2018 | India, Interview, Playwriting

Girish Karnad’s new play Rakshasa Tangadi puts the spotlight on Vijayanagar empire. More than his...

Sarah Kane’s “4.48 Psychosis” at New Diorama Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 9th Oct 2018 | London, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Disability, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom

It’s all about the casting. The paradox of playwright Sarah Kane’s short career is that while her...

“Vastraharan:” Five Thousand And Counting

Posted by Vikram Phukan | 8th Oct 2018 | India, News, Playwriting

Now well into its fourth decade, the rip-roaring Malwani comedy, Vastraharan rolls on. The...

Adapting Identities: Freya Treutmann’s “Scratches” And “Evidence Of Codes” In Edinburgh

Posted by Armando Rotondi | 3rd Oct 2018 | Adaptation, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Art, United Kingdom

The relation between identity and performance is one of the strongest topics in the field of...

Sarah Kane’s Controversial 1990s Play “Blasted” Feels Prescient In The #MeToo Era

Posted by Jana Perkovic | 23rd Sep 2018 | Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Gender

Playwright Sarah Kane was an “honorary lad” in in-yer-face drama that dominated the 1990s in...

Our Streets, Our City: “Not For Sale” By Guadalís Del Carmen Premieres At UrbanTheater Company

Posted by Trevor Boffone | 21st Sep 2018 | Chicago, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

One of the core components of the Latinx Theatre Commons Carnaval of New Latinx Work in July 2018...

“Caterpillar” at The Theatre 503

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 20th Sep 2018 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom

Theatre 503 is a small underfunded fringe venue, but it’s one of the most important nurseries of...

New Russian Drama Week: 4 contemporary Russian plays

Posted by Julia Secklehner | 7th Sep 2018 | News, Playwriting, Russia, Russian Theatre Abroad

New Russian Drama Week by Xameleon Theatre Plays from the Russian speaking world. Series of...

Desi Drama And Neil Simon’s Enduring Legacy

Posted by Vikram Phukan | 5th Sep 2018 | India, News, Playwriting, United States of America, Worldwide

While tributes to the American screenwriter and playwright Neil Simon, who passed away at the age...

Playwriting

Navigating Korea and America: Meet Hansol Jung, Playwright of “Wild Goose Dreams” and “Cardboard Piano”

Sin Muros: Interview with “City Without Altar” Poet and Playwright Jasminne Mendez

Sin Muros: Interview with “Then They Forgot About the Rest” Playwright Georgina Escobar

A Warrior Princess In The Coffee Shop

An Interview With Playwright Alexis Roblan

It’s Ella Hickson’s Moment (Of Honesty)

David Edgar’s “Trying It On” At The Royal Court

Robert Alan Evans’s “The Woods” at The Royal Court

Vinay Patel’s “An Adventure”: An Epic Reading of One Asian Family’s Global Migration Story

Jo Clifford’s “Losing Venice” at The Orange Tree Theatre

Creative Strokes On A Historical Canvas: On Girish Karnad’s New Play “Rakshasa Tangadi”

Sarah Kane’s “4.48 Psychosis” at New Diorama Theatre

“Vastraharan:” Five Thousand And Counting

Adapting Identities: Freya Treutmann’s “Scratches” And “Evidence Of Codes” In Edinburgh

Sarah Kane’s Controversial 1990s Play “Blasted” Feels Prescient In The #MeToo Era

Our Streets, Our City: “Not For Sale” By Guadalís Del Carmen Premieres At UrbanTheater Company

“Caterpillar” at The Theatre 503

New Russian Drama Week: 4 contemporary Russian plays

Desi Drama And Neil Simon’s Enduring Legacy

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