Invisible Diaries: Pandemic Dramaturgies
Adaptation became one of my “things” academically sometime in the early 2000s. I was...
Read MorePosted by Kara McKechnie | 18th Jun 2020 | Covid-19, Dramaturgs’ Network: Invisible Diaries, Dramaturgy, Essay, United Kingdom
Adaptation became one of my “things” academically sometime in the early 2000s. I was...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 14th Jun 2020 | London, Review, Theatre and Art, Theatre and Disability, United Kingdom
If any musical can attempt to live up to this title in these troubled times, it must be this show...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 12th Jun 2020 | News, Review, Theatre and Art, United Kingdom
We are living, I have frequently been told, through weird times. Maybe. But do weird times...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 7th Jun 2020 | Applied Theatre, Essay, United Kingdom
In his wide-ranging, and widely read, survey of postwar British theatre, called State of the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 3rd Jun 2020 | Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
The National Theatre’s triumphant march through its archive of NT Live recordings continues this...
Read MorePosted by Rajashree Das | 1st Jun 2020 | Covid-19, News, Theatre and Disability, Transmedia, United Kingdom
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought significant shifts in routines all over the world. With more...
Read MorePosted by Niloofar Mohtadi | 31st May 2020 | Directing, Interview, United Kingdom
Jonathan Pitches is a Professor of Theater and Performance at the University of Leeds. He is the...
Read MorePosted by Kara McKechnie | 30th May 2020 | Covid-19, Dramaturgs’ Network: Invisible Diaries, Dramaturgy, Essay, United Kingdom
This article is part of the Dramaturgs’ Network’s Invisible Diaries series. Slung Low is a company...
Read MorePosted by Kara McKechnie | 30th May 2020 | Covid-19, Dramaturgs’ Network: Invisible Diaries, Dramaturgy, Essay, United Kingdom
This article is part of the Dramaturgs’ Network’s Invisible Diaries series. I am part German and...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 29th May 2020 | London, Review, Transmedia, United Kingdom
During the lockdown, the best online theatre, more or less, are shows that are specially created...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 24th May 2020 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Over the past couple of months, theatre reviewing has become film reviewing, and venues all over...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 21st May 2020 | London, Review, Theatre and Art, United Kingdom
So far, it could be said that the National Theatre is having a good lockdown. Every week, this...
Read MorePosted by Katalin Trencsényi | 19th May 2020 | Dramaturgs’ Network: Invisible Diaries, Dramaturgy, Essay, United Kingdom
This article is part of the Dramaturgs’ Network’s Invisible Diaries series, and has...
Read MorePosted by Laura Jayne Wright | 13th May 2020 | Review, Transmedia, United Kingdom
While theatres remain closed, the way we watch Shakespeare is changing. When I picture the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 4th May 2020 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
London’s Hampstead Theatre has recently been very successful in bringing some of its best shows to...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 3rd May 2020 | Review, Theatre and Film, United Kingdom
She’s an ordinary young woman, and she really doesn’t know what to think. After all, things are...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 1st May 2020 | Review, Theatre and Age, Theatre and Film, United Kingdom
Reviewing theatre now means reviewing the film. Knowing that Emma Rice’s Old Vic 2018 production...
Read MorePosted by Matthew Lockitt | 26th Apr 2020 | Musical Theatre, News, United Kingdom
British musical theatre maestro Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber has launched a YouTube channel, The Shows...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 25th Apr 2020 | Documentary Theatre, Review, Theatre and Film, United Kingdom
Artemisia Gentileschi definitely had a hard time. Although she was an outstanding Renaissance...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 14th Apr 2020 | Theatre and Art, Transmedia, United Kingdom
Armchair theatre-lovers rejoice. During the lockdown, the National Theatre is streaming a...
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