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LATEST REPORTS FROM THEATRE FESTIVALS
Dance Umbrella Celebrates Merce Cunningham Centenary with “The Future Bursts In” at the Linbury Theatre in London
Within ten seconds, I am in love. Three men have taken off their shoes at the side of a white,...
Edinburgh Fringe 2019: “Interbeing – Stories Of A Current War”, Cockpit Theatre: Putting A Forgotten War Back Into The Spotlight
“There are bombardments constantly on the outskirts of Donetsk, while in central Donetsk they...
PQ 2019: Noise Music
The Rudolfinum is the main classical music performance hall in Prague. The house of the Czech...
A Review of “Notes From Exile” from the 2018 Boska Komedia Festival: Reverberations of Antisemitism
Zapiski Z Wygnania [Notes from Exile] directed by Magda Umer. Presented at Narodowy Stary...
ALL LATEST FESTIVAL REPORTS
ASSITEJ World Congress & Performing Arts Festival is Finally Here
The 2020 ASSITEJ World Congress & Performing Arts Festival / MIRAI 2020 is scheduled to take...
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A Point and Click Music Session With “Modulation”
I was mesmerized by Courtney Love, performing in Kansas City Choir Boy at Prototype in 2015....
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Don’t Worry, Guy: Toronto’s Indie Theatre Community Stays Resilient
On February 20th at 7pm, Sebastian Biasucci’s family will be in their kitchen eating dinner. One...
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Iceland’s “Wide Slumber for Lepidopterists” Undergoes Metamorphosis by Means of Metaphor
Composed by Valgeir Sigurðsson and directed by Sara Martí, Wide Slumber for Lepidopterists is an...
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Our Experiments: How Dakh Theatre Went Digital
An interview with Andrii Palatnyi, Dakh Theatre / Gogolfest in Ukraine This year, Dakh Theatre and...
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Sydney Festival Review: “The Rise And Fall Of Saint George” Shows The Transformative Power Of Music
The Rise and Fall of Saint George is a story about place, belonging, and community that taps into...
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Sydney Festival Review: Circa’s “Humans 2.0” is a Visceral Delight
Review: Humans 2.0, directed by Yaron Lifschitz, Circa at Sydney Festival The black circular stage...
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Sydney Festival Review: Politics of Care in Force Majeure’s “The Last Season”
Review: The Last Season, directed and choreographed by Danielle Micich, Force Majeure at Sydney...
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“Times3 (Times x Times x Times)” Takes Bite Out of Big Apple
Created by theatre-artist Geoff Sobelle and composer-performer Pamela Z, Times3 (Times x Times x...
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2021 Flying Start For Human Rights Art Festival
First of the block is ‘Human Freedom 2021- A Theater for Human Rights Campaign’. This initiative is spearheaded by newly-appointed 2021 IHRAF International Fellow, Alessandro Lenzi. It is organized through a global collaboration between Raizes Teatro (Palermo), International Human Rights Art Festival (NYC), Avant – Garde Lawyers (Paris), and Global Campus of Human Rights (Venice). Alessandro Lenzi is the Director of Raizes Teatro. The Last Era, a play written by Alessandro Ienzi will be one of the features of the campaign.
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Surge Madrid 2020: The Nonstop Alternative Theatre Festival
Surge Madrid is a performing arts festival that usually takes place in May. However, this year it...
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Sharm El-Sheikh International Theatre Festival for Youth: Beating the Pandemic
The festival’s fifth edition took place from November 16-20. Despite Covid-19 making even a...
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New Musicals Presented at the National Alliance of Musical Theatre’s 32nd Annual Festival
*Content Warning: This article discusses and describes new musicals that deal with such topics as...
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Egypt launches 13th edition of the National Theatre Festival
Running until 4 January, The festival is hosting 29 performances on 14 stages across Cairo. Egypt...
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Afro-Latinidad And The Greater Good Of The Latinx Playwrights Circle
In October 2017, a group of Latinx playwrights came together in New York City to share space,...
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Eight Lights of the Israeli Theater: Isra-Drama Performances that are Worth Seeing Twice – Online and Offline
If theater around the world previously sought to destroy the fourth wall, it has recently had to...
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All You Need to Know About the 5th Sharm El-Sheikh Int’l Theatre Festival for Youth
The management of the Sharm El-Sheikh International Theatre Festival for Youth (SITFY) revealed...
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Perspectives on the Internationalization of Theatre: An Interview with Thomas Irmer
Thomas Irmer is a scholar, dramaturg, and critic regularly contributing to Theater der Zeit,...
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Performance Pugilism in the Pandemic – The Social Distance Showdown
The first Social Distance Showdown International Virtual Stage Combat Workshop took place on May...
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The Art and Skills of Theater Festival Selections: An Interview with Slobodan Savic
Slobodan Savić (born in Požarevac in 1964) is an author, theatre critic, writer, and journalist....
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Avignon 2020 Announces its Program: The History of Theaters Rethought Within the Framework of New Partnerships
IRET days in Avignon Biannual event since 2015 bringing together IRET researchers, doctoral...
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Privileges of the Imagination
When, nearly three years ago, I wrote about the first Teatroteka (Didaskalia, No. 142), I looked...
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Contemporary Performing Arts Festival Stays Open to New Possibilities Despite COVID-19
Maybe 13 is an unlucky number? Contemporary theater’s annual Festival/Tokyo is known for its focus...
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Foreword to “Youth Theatre- A Casebook”
It’s now June 2020. In most European countries, the first wave of Covid-19 has started to slow...
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UNESCO Cities of Literature Short Play Festival 2019
In September 2019, the UNESCO Cities of Literature Short Play Festival took place in Dunedin, New...
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Notes from the Generation After 4 Showcase
Mid-September brought us a week of new, Polish theatre productions, and a sneak peek behind the...
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Toyooka Theater Festival Brings French Flair to Japan’s Theater Scene
Performing arts festivals and opportunities to enjoy live entertainment have been few and far...
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Cambodia Is An Inspiration For The Healing Power Of Art After A Crisis
Even though history has seen different disasters and humanitarian crises, one fact remains: we try...
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ConFormazioni Dance Festival 2020. Reporting from Sicily
Despite national and regional COVID-19 guidelines for the logistical elements of performance,...
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True Inner-Emotion: Butoh Festival Amsterdam 2020
The Butoh dance – born in Japan in the late ’50s, and welcomed and metabolized by the West in the ’80s – is not annulled in the stereotype of a technique handed down and transmittable, but lives an ever new epiphany in the individual experience of each dancer whose results, formally indefinable, go from improvised performative intervention to the extreme of the choreographic mechanism.
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