The Piccolo Theatro’s “Miracle In Milan”
On the opening night of Miracle in Milan at the Piccolo Teatro Strehler, the excitement of the...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 11th Mar 2026 | Adaptation, Italy, Review
On the opening night of Miracle in Milan at the Piccolo Teatro Strehler, the excitement of the...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 17th Feb 2026 | Adaptation, Italy, Review
In late January and early February, Filippo Timi’s Hamlet² played to full houses at the 500-seater...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 6th Feb 2026 | Directing, Italy, Review
Neapolitan poet and dramatist Enzo Moscato passed away in 2024 at the age of 75. Together with...
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 Margaret Rose | 27th Jan 2026 | Acting, Italy, Review
Before the Storm is set in a rather dilapidated dressing room where an elderly actor waits to go...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 10th Dec 2025 | Italy, Review, Theatre and Gender
In late November, Emma Dante brought her latest show, L’Angelo del focolare (The Angel of the...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 23rd Nov 2025 | Adaptation, Italy, Review
Two major productions of Richard III are touring Italy in the present season, a sign perhaps that...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 20th Jul 2025 | Festivals, Immersive Theatre, Italy, Review
Director and writer Romeo Castellucci decided not to use one of the usual venues of the Theatre...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 16th Jul 2025 | Festivals, Italy, Review, Transmedia, United States of America
Celebrated American actor Willem Dafoe, the new artistic director of the Venice Theatre Biennale,...
Read MorePosted by Ariadne Mikou | 31st May 2025 | Italy, Review, Theatre and Dance
Under the artistic direction of the étoile Eleonora Abbagnato, Rome Opera House (Teatro dell’Opera...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 8th May 2025 | Italy, Review, Theatre and Politics
Playwright, actor, director and novelist Davide Enia had his first success as a theatrical...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 16th Apr 2025 | Italy, Review, Theatre and Disability
At Milan’s Franco Parenti theatre, Shards of Chaotic Memory in Multicoloured Ink (Schegge di...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 10th Mar 2025 | Directing, Italy, Review
In February I caught Antonio Syxty’s staging of Romeo e Giulietta (Romeo and Juliet) at Milan’s...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 5th Mar 2025 | Italy, Review, Theatre and Science
Rarely have I spent such an intense ninety minutes watching a show, as I did the other evening at...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 2nd Mar 2025 | Italy, Review, Theatre and Politics
In his short story, A Report to an Academy, written and published in 1917, Franz Kafka imagines...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 4th Feb 2025 | Italy, Review, Theatre and Gender
Some of the outstanding works by British playwright Lucy Kirkwood are finally being staged in...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 24th Jan 2025 | Immersive Theatre, Italy, Review
Director Romeo Castellucci is coming to the end of a four-year collaboration with Milan’s...
Read MorePosted by Ilinca Todoruţ | 12th Dec 2024 | Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Kyoto Experiment 2024, Review
Indonesian performance artist Melati Suryodarmo and Italian choreographer Alessandro Sciarroni...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 20th Oct 2024 | Festivals, Italy, Review
The city of Milan hosts two annual Fringe events, the first in June, and the second, in late...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 31st Aug 2024 | Edinburgh 2024, Italy, Review, United Kingdom
New plays can derive from many sources: a vivid imagination, novels, diaries, real-life episodes,...
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