Thought-Provoking Crime Drama And Star Vehicle: “Nebenan” At The Renaissance Theater, Berlin
The play Nebenan was premiered at Burgtheater Wien in 2022, based on the film of the same title...
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Germany
Gender Allows A Different Perspective On Ibsen’s “Der Volksfeind” (“An Enemy Of The People”) In Bremerhaven
In 2019, Landestheater Salzburg used a new translation of Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People as the...
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Witty Revival Of 2022 Pollesch “Liebe, Einfach Außerirdisch” In Berlin
When the production first opened in 2022, critics commented on the fact that the play was being...
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Biography And Politics: “Der Zauberer Von Öz – Eine Fußballtragödie“ In Bremen
Theater Bremen is currently showing the world premiere production of Der Zauberer von Öz – Eine...
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Adaptations On The German Stage (2): “Der Schimmelreiter” In Oldenburg
Der Schimmelreiter (The Rider on the White Horse) is a novella by German writer Theodor Storm...
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“Liebe Mit Taktgefühl” By Barbara Raue-Flajs, At Piccolo Teatro Haventheater, Bremerhaven: Directorial Reflections
Since August 2019, I have owned and run the chamber theatre, piccolo teatro Haventheater, in...
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Adaptations On The German Stage (1): “Sein Oder Nicht Sein” In Bremerhaven
Sein oder nicht sein is a play by Nick Whitby (b.1963), premiered on Broadway in 2008, and first...
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Six-Hour Tour De Force “Hamlet” In Hamburg, Directed, With Many Ironic Self-References, By Veteran Legendary Frank Castorf
This six-hour production of Hamlet took Shakespeare’s play as the starting and end point, in...
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“All Right. Good Night.:” A Poetic Meditation on the Art of Letting Go
In All Right. Good Night., German docu-theater artist Helgard Haug turns loss into a language. The...
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“Lale Lili Marleen:” The Promising Relaunch Of A Quaint Chamber Theatre In The Oldest District Of Bremen
The small district of Schnoor in the northern German city of Bremen, consisting of some 100...
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Lessing’s “Emilia Galotti” As Directorial Debut In Bremen
At German theatres, some assistant directors are employed for the duration of a production, from...
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German Summer Festival Theatre (2): Domfestspiele Verden, “Die Zündholzfrau”
In 1997, an association was founded in the German city of Verden on the river Aller, located...
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German Summer Festival Theatre (1): Theatersommer Wismar, Brecht/Weill The Threepenny Opera
Over the summer months, all of the publicly funded state and municipal theatres, as well as...
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Mark St Germain’s “Dancing Lessons” At Boulevard Münster In The Context Of The Ongoing Comedy Theatre Tradition In Germany
Germany’s theatre landscape is very rich indeed. Many cities have publicly owned and funded...
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Review Of “Bernarda Albas Haus,” Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Première 2 November 2024.
Interpretations in cultures and languages external to Spain have been integral to the survival of...
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Starlight Express The Musical: 40 Years in The Orbit
Dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the first original production of the musical Starlight...
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Acting As Social Practice: Theater As A Tool To Initiate Dialogue In A Hyperdiverse Immigration Society
Artistic practice, which allows for the creation and re-creation of social spaces as testing...
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Post-Colonial B-Horror: “The Visitors” at Volksbühne Berlin
This summer, Berlin’s Volksbühne presented The Visitors, a new work by the choreographer Constanza...
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“The Bald Soprano,” French Absurd Theater Becomes a German Contemporary Opera Buffa
There are some myths about the opera that are not true. Firstly, that young people do not like...
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Marius von Mayenburg’s Nachtland at the Young Vic: Satire on Art and Anti-Semitism Is Both Absurdist and Unsettling
We’ve all heard of the metaphorical madwoman in the attic, but what about the symbolic unexploded...
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