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LATEST REPORTS FROM THEATRE FESTIVALS
Sharm El-Sheikh International Theatre Festival for Youth: Beating the Pandemic
Posted by Ati Metwaly | Jan 4, 2021 | Devised Theatre, Egypt, Festivals
Egypt launches 13th edition of the National Theatre Festival
Posted by Ahram Online | Dec 30, 2020 | Egypt, Festivals, Theatre and Film
Afro-Latinidad And The Greater Good Of The Latinx Playwrights Circle
Posted by Trevor Boffone | Dec 12, 2020 | Festivals, Playwriting, United States of America
Perspectives on the Internationalization of Theatre: An Interview with Thomas Irmer
Posted by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar | Nov 21, 2020 | Festivals, Germany, Interview
Performance Pugilism in the Pandemic – The Social Distance Showdown
Posted by Meron Langsner | Nov 21, 2020 | Covid-19, Festivals, Stage Combat
The Art and Skills of Theater Festival Selections: An Interview with Slobodan Savic
Posted by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar | Nov 19, 2020 | Festivals, Interview, Serbia
Dance Umbrella Celebrates Merce Cunningham Centenary with “The Future Bursts In” at the Linbury Theatre in London
by Lisa Marie Bowler | Dec 5, 2019 | Dance Umbrella 2019, London, Review, Theatre and Dance, United Kingdom
Within ten seconds, I am in love. Three men have taken off their shoes at the side of a white,...



“The Eighth Life (for Brilka)”: Dark Chocolate


Olympian Calm: The International Theatre Olympics
Edinburgh Fringe 2019: “Interbeing – Stories Of A Current War”, Cockpit Theatre: Putting A Forgotten War Back Into The Spotlight
by Juno Schwarz | Sep 7, 2019 | Edinburgh 2019, Festivals, Review, Theatre and Dance, Ukraine, United Kingdom
“There are bombardments constantly on the outskirts of Donetsk, while in central Donetsk they...
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Edinburgh Fringe 2019: Solo Performances
by Mert Dilek | Sep 6, 2019 | Edinburgh 2019, Festivals, Review, United Kingdom
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Edinburgh Fringe 2019: After the Fact
by Mert Dilek | Sep 5, 2019 | Edinburgh 2019, Festivals, Review, United Kingdom
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Edinburgh Fringe 2019: Female-Led Narratives
by Mert Dilek | Sep 1, 2019 | Edinburgh 2019, Festivals, Review, United Kingdom

Glasses That Translate. How Is This Possible?






Avignon Festival 2019: “L’Amour Vainqueur”



PQ 2019: Noise Music
by Abigail Weil | Jun 22, 2019 | Czech Republic, Festivals, Prague Quadrennial 2019, Review
The Rudolfinum is the main classical music performance hall in Prague. The house of the Czech...
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PQ 2019: Puppet Masters
by Abigail Weil | Jun 21, 2019 | Czech Republic, News, Prague Quadrennial 2019, Puppetry, Theatre for Young Audiences
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PQ 2019: An A+ B-Movie
by Abigail Weil | Jun 20, 2019 | Adaptation, Czech Republic, Festivals, Prague Quadrennial 2019, Theatre and Film, Transmedia
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PQ 2019: Paradise City
by Abigail Weil | Jun 19, 2019 | Czech Republic, Design, Devised Theatre, News, Prague Quadrennial 2019
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PQ 2019: A Dove is a Pigeon
by Abigail Weil | Jun 18, 2019 | Czech Republic, Festivals, Musical Theatre, Prague Quadrennial 2019, Review

Hollywood Fringe Festival – “To Richard!”


Hollywood Fringe Festival – “Saving Cain”



Hollywood Fringe Festival – “Anna St. Hesia Dreams”




Hollywood Fringe Festival – “Son of a Bitch”
A Review of “Notes From Exile” from the 2018 Boska Komedia Festival: Reverberations of Antisemitism
by Rem Myers | Jan 13, 2019 | Divine Comedy Festival 2018, Festivals, Poland, Review
Zapiski Z Wygnania [Notes from Exile] directed by Magda Umer. Presented at Narodowy Stary...
ALL LATEST FESTIVAL REPORTS
Surge Madrid 2020: The Nonstop Alternative Theatre Festival
by Antonio Hernández Nieto | Jan 9, 2021 | Festivals, News, Spain
Surge Madrid is a performing arts festival that usually takes place in May. However, this year it...
Read MoreSharm El-Sheikh International Theatre Festival for Youth: Beating the Pandemic
by Ati Metwaly | Jan 4, 2021 | Devised Theatre, Egypt, Festivals
The festival’s fifth edition took place from November 16-20. Despite Covid-19 making even a...
Read MoreNew Musicals Presented at the National Alliance of Musical Theatre’s 32nd Annual Festival
by Megan McCormick | Dec 31, 2020 | Festivals, Musical Theatre, New York, Review, Transmedia, United States of America
*Content Warning: This article discusses and describes new musicals that deal with such topics as...
Read MoreEgypt launches 13th edition of the National Theatre Festival
by Ahram Online | Dec 30, 2020 | Egypt, Festivals, Theatre and Film
Running until 4 January, The festival is hosting 29 performances on 14 stages across Cairo. Egypt...
Read MoreAfro-Latinidad And The Greater Good Of The Latinx Playwrights Circle
by Trevor Boffone | Dec 12, 2020 | Festivals, Playwriting, United States of America
In October 2017, a group of Latinx playwrights came together in New York City to share space,...
Read MoreEight Lights of the Israeli Theater: Isra-Drama Performances that are Worth Seeing Twice – Online and Offline
by Emiliia Dementsova | Dec 9, 2020 | Festivals, Israel, News
If theater around the world previously sought to destroy the fourth wall, it has recently had to...
Read MoreAll You Need to Know About the 5th Sharm El-Sheikh Int’l Theatre Festival for Youth
by Ati Metwaly | Nov 30, 2020 | Egypt, Festivals, Theatre for Young Audiences
The management of the Sharm El-Sheikh International Theatre Festival for Youth (SITFY) revealed...
Read MorePerspectives on the Internationalization of Theatre: An Interview with Thomas Irmer
by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar | Nov 21, 2020 | Festivals, Germany, Interview
Thomas Irmer is a scholar, dramaturg, and critic regularly contributing to Theater der Zeit,...
Read MorePerformance Pugilism in the Pandemic – The Social Distance Showdown
by Meron Langsner | Nov 21, 2020 | Covid-19, Festivals, Stage Combat
The first Social Distance Showdown International Virtual Stage Combat Workshop took place on May...
Read MoreThe Art and Skills of Theater Festival Selections: An Interview with Slobodan Savic
by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar | Nov 19, 2020 | Festivals, Interview, Serbia
Slobodan Savić (born in Požarevac in 1964) is an author, theatre critic, writer, and journalist....
Read MoreAvignon 2020 Announces its Program: The History of Theaters Rethought Within the Framework of New Partnerships
by Capital Critics Circle | Nov 16, 2020 | Festivals, France, News
IRET days in Avignon Biannual event since 2015 bringing together IRET researchers, doctoral...
Read MorePrivileges of the Imagination
by Olga Katafiasz | Nov 16, 2020 | Essay, Festivals, Poland, Theatre for Young Audiences, Transmedia
When, nearly three years ago, I wrote about the first Teatroteka (Didaskalia, No. 142), I looked...
Read MoreContemporary Performing Arts Festival Stays Open to New Possibilities Despite COVID-19
by Nobuko Tanaka | Nov 14, 2020 | Covid-19, Festivals, Japan, News, Transcultural Collaborations, Transmedia
Maybe 13 is an unlucky number? Contemporary theater’s annual Festival/Tokyo is known for its focus...
Read MoreForeword to “Youth Theatre- A Casebook”
by Heidi Wiley and Serge Rangoni | Nov 11, 2020 | Festivals, Theatre for Young Audiences, Youth Theatre - A Casebook
It’s now June 2020. In most European countries, the first wave of Covid-19 has started to slow...
Read MoreContemporary Performing Arts Festival Stays Open To New Possibilities Despite COVID-19
by Nobuko Tanaka | Nov 1, 2020 | Festivals, Japan, News
Maybe 13 is an unlucky number? Contemporary theater’s annual Festival/Tokyo is known for its focus...
Read MoreUNESCO Cities of Literature Short Play Festival 2019
by Hilary Halba and Stuart Young | Oct 25, 2020 | Festivals, New Zealand, Transcultural Collaborations
In September 2019, the UNESCO Cities of Literature Short Play Festival took place in Dunedin, New...
Read MoreNotes from the Generation After 4 Showcase
by Franciszek Bryk | Oct 16, 2020 | Festivals, Poland, Theatre and Dance
Mid-September brought us a week of new, Polish theatre productions, and a sneak peek behind the...
Read MoreToyooka Theater Festival Brings French Flair to Japan’s Theater Scene
by Nobuko Tanaka | Oct 14, 2020 | Festivals, Interview, Japan
Performing arts festivals and opportunities to enjoy live entertainment have been few and far...
Read MoreCambodia Is An Inspiration For The Healing Power Of Art After A Crisis
by François Audet, Alexandre P. Bédard, and Caroline Coulombe | Oct 10, 2020 | Cambodia, Covid-19, Festivals
Even though history has seen different disasters and humanitarian crises, one fact remains: we try...
Read MoreConFormazioni Dance Festival 2020. Reporting from Sicily
by Ariadne Mikou | Oct 4, 2020 | Festivals, Italy, Theatre and Dance
Despite national and regional COVID-19 guidelines for the logistical elements of performance,...
Read MoreTrue Inner-Emotion: Butoh Festival Amsterdam 2020
by Christopher Harris | Oct 2, 2020 | Festivals, Netherlands, Theatre and Dance
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.
Read MoreClasses d’Art du Festival d’Avignon Online: SEASON # 1
by French Culture | Sep 29, 2020 | Festivals, France, News
Starting September 2020, Festival Experiences, a subsidiary company of the Festival...
Read MoreThe Story Behind “LILIAN”: Interview with Kasia Głowicka
by John O'Regan | Sep 17, 2020 | Festivals, Interview, Poland, Theatre and Politics, Transcultural Collaborations, Transmedia
LILIAN, the debut radio play from award-winning composer Kasia Głowicka, will premiere Friday,...
Read MoreDigital National Theatre Festival In Memory Of A Critic
by Neeraja Murthy | Sep 15, 2020 | Festivals, India, Review
Prayogam Theatre Group pays tribute to senior journalist GLN Murthy and hopes to engage the...
Read More“Generation After 4”: Connecting Above Borders With The Most Radical Stages Of Polish New Theatre
by Franciszek Bryk | Sep 14, 2020 | Directing, Festivals, News, Poland, Transmedia
Cursed problems often require unorthodox solutions, ones that transgress or delineate anew...
Read MoreReach Out And Touch Faith: “Guru Of Touch” By This Is Not A Theatre Company
by Emily Cordes | Sep 10, 2020 | Covid-19, Festivals, Review, Transmedia, United States of America
After nearly half a year in quarantine, many artists still wrestle with the conundrum of COVID-era...
Read MoreEgypt’s Sharm El-Sheikh Int’l Theatre Festival For Youth Launches YouTube, SoundCloud Channels
by Ahram Online | Aug 4, 2020 | Egypt, Festivals, News, Theatre for Young Audiences
The channels aim to archive the festival’s previous sessions and their activities. The Sharm...
Read MoreItaly, Post-Lockdown: The In-Box Project
by Maria Pia Pagani | Jul 30, 2020 | Festivals, Italy, News
Founded in Siena in 2009, The In-Box Project is part festival, part funding body, and part...
Read More“The Shopping Dead”: A New Theatrical Sensation on WhatsApp
by Ian Kiyingi Muddu | Jul 19, 2020 | Festivals, Review, South Africa, Transmedia
“They’ve locked us in here and they’re going to wait for the virus to finish us off.”...
Read MoreDramaturgy in Action: How the Stratford Festival’s Meighen Forum Challenges Audiences to Think Beyond the Production
by Sally Kozminski | Jun 5, 2020 | Canada, Covid-19, Dramaturgy, Festivals, News
Imagine you have just experienced one of the most extraordinary performances you have ever seen in...
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