“Managed Approach” – Two Contrasting Stories – Open Aire Theatre, Riverside Studios, London
It’s been six years since the end of Managed Approach, a project in Holbeck, Leeds, which...
Read MorePosted by Verity Healey | 1st May 2026 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
It’s been six years since the end of Managed Approach, a project in Holbeck, Leeds, which...
Read MorePosted by Emiliia Dementsova | 14th Apr 2026 | Festivals, Hungary, Theatre and Politics
MITEM (Madách International Theatre Meeting), held annually at the National Theatre in Budapest,...
Read MorePosted by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe | 8th Apr 2026 | Acting, Germany, Review, Theatre and Politics
In 2016, Austrian director Christian Krönes and colleagues launched their two-hour documentary...
Read MorePosted by Berna Ataoğlu | 17th Mar 2026 | Adaptation, Canada, Netherlands, Review, Theatre and Politics
Adapted from the Booker Prize–winning novel by Irish author Paul Lynch, Prophet Song is staged by...
Read MorePosted by Katerina Pestamatzoglou | 9th Mar 2026 | Germany, Greece, Review, Theatre and Politics, Transcultural Collaborations
An Enemy of the People was first introduced to Greek audiences in 1902 by the pioneering “New...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 20th Feb 2026 | Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Politics, Ukraine, United Kingdom
Today, in Geneva, there are tentative peace talks between Ukraine and Russia; today, in London,...
Read MorePosted by Amir Al-Azraki | 19th Feb 2026 | Essay, Iraq, Theatre and Politics
Basra is shaped by louder forces such as oil, politics, and the constant negotiation of visible...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 3rd Feb 2026 | Italy, Review, Theatre and Politics
A Place of Safety, A Journey in the Central Mediterranean, produced by the Kepler-452 Company...
Read MorePosted by Susanna Sun | 4th Jan 2026 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Berlin at Chicago’s Court Theatre (April–May 2025) was nothing short of a theatrical...
Read MorePosted by L. Peter Callender | 3rd Jan 2026 | Iran, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
We all know the iconic closing lines: “For never was a story of more woe / Than this of...
Read MorePosted by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe | 4th Dec 2025 | Directing, Germany, Review, Theatre and Politics
Theater Bremen is currently showing the world premiere production of Der Zauberer von Öz – Eine...
Read MorePosted by Verity Healey | 2nd Dec 2025 | Acting, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Representation in the performing arts in the UK is in crisis. For years, voices have been warning...
Read MorePosted by Seda Ilter | 23rd Nov 2025 | Review, Theatre and Politics, Turkey, United Kingdom
In October 2025, Battersea Arts Centre hosted Aşınma (Corrosion) – a multi-award-winning theatre...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 16th Nov 2025 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
The farcical premise of Rajiv Joseph’s play Archduke—just opened at the Roundabout’s Laura Pels...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 2nd Nov 2025 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Thatcher, and the image of Thatcher’s Britain, continues to cast a long shadow over contemporary...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 1st Nov 2025 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
I went to Caroline Guiela Nguyen’s Lacrima at BAM with great eagerness and curiosity. This was a...
Read MorePosted by Verity Healey | 27th Oct 2025 | Bosnia, Review, Theatre and Politics
The Flowers of Srebrenica should be impossible to stage. Irish academic Aidan Hehir’s book, a...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 5th Oct 2025 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Among the most depressing facets of Donald Trump’s pathology is how all-consuming his hunger for...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 30th Sep 2025 | Documentary Theatre, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Broken Britain has a big problem with youth. About a million of those aged 16 to 24 are NEETs (not...
Read MorePosted by Cristina Modreanu | 30th Aug 2025 | New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
In a world where the rule is to make huge efforts to attain an “effortless, relaxed” look, the new...
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