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Russia Meets Iran: J’afari, Vișniec and Meyerhold, Partners of Ideology, Traversers of History

Posted by Farinaz Kavianifar | 23rd May 2019 | Directing, Iran, Review, Theatre and Politics

Read Farinaz Kavianifar’s interview with Rūhollah J’afari. On the evening of August 3, 2018,...

Self-Censorship Is a Castration of Ideas: A Conversation with Ruhollah J’afari, Dramaturg and Director of the Play Richard III Will Not Take Place

Posted by Reza Ashofteh | 23rd May 2019 | Interview, Iran, Theatre and Politics

Also, about this production, read “Russia Meets Iran: J’afari, Vișniec, and Meyerhold,...

Staging The Present Moment: International Festival of Iberian Expression Theatre

Posted by Daniel Schenker | 19th May 2019 | Brazil, Festivals, News, Portugal, Theatre and Dance, Theatre and Politics

FITEI – International Festival of Iberian Expression Theater, taking place in Porto, Portugal,...

AVLAIA: Dropping and Opening the Curtain to the Future of Europe

Posted by Sozita Goudouna | 14th May 2019 | Greece, News, Theatre and Art, Theatre and Politics

In the theatre, the front curtain is drawn open from both sides of the proscenium to reveal a...

What Schreck’s Endings Mean To Me

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 10th May 2019 | New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

Lately, whenever people ask for advice on what theater to see in New York, the show I’ve mentioned...

Comedy In The Time Of #LokSabhaElections2019

Posted by Devang Pathak | 8th May 2019 | India, Review, Theatre and Politics

As political humor becomes more accessible, so do the repercussions of having an opinion in the...

The Structure Of The Arts And Culture Industry In Zimbabwe

Posted by Samuel Ravengai | 5th May 2019 | Essay, Theatre and Politics, Zimbabwe

In the last nine years, at various forums initiated either by government agents such as National...

“Pah-La” at The Royal Court

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 20th Apr 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom

Theatre can give a voice to the voiceless — but at what cost? Abhishek Majumdar, who debuted at...

Finding Leonardo

Posted by AeRhee Lee | 17th Apr 2019 | New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

Words that should mean something were thrown across the stage as a light beam, giving a glimpse of hope that somehow, music or singer will communicate a genius who saw ugliness in his fellow human yet wanted to please, to serve them, who wrote he was never tired of serving, pleasing.No, that did not happen.

ETC and Ukrainian Theatre: A Dialogue of Art, Change, and Support

Posted by Lauren Dubowski | 16th Apr 2019 | Germany, News, Producing, Theatre and Politics, Transcultural Collaborations, Ukraine

As a mid-December snow fell over the city of Kyiv, Ukraine, the European Theatre Convention...

“An Inspector Calls”: A Study Of Greed

Posted by Jane Baldwin | 10th Apr 2019 | Boston, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom, United States of America

The National Theatre’s production of J.B. Priestley’s 1945 An Inspector Calls now playing at...

Popular Culture And Political Theatre In PETA’s “Charot!, The Musical”

Posted by Maria Jovita Zárate | 3rd Apr 2019 | LGBTQ Theatre, Musical Theatre, Philippines, Review, Theatre and Politics

“CHAROT” is gay slang, one of the many fluid terms generated by popular lingo, often used as an...

On Broadway, “What The Constitution Means To Me” Exorcises A Troubled American Ethos

Posted by Michael Appler | 1st Apr 2019 | New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

In Heidi Schreck’s hands rests a divine power which only the best of storytellers wield to purge...

World Theatre Day 2019: On (Dis)Connection

Posted by Marié-Heleen Coetzee | 31st Mar 2019 | News, South Africa, Theatre and Politics

World Theatre Day reminds us that theatre offers a means through which to make meaning of our experiences in our historical, social and political contexts by storying and re-storying modes of human (dis)connection.