“Fires” This Time
Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven Connecticut stages a revival of Anna Deavere Smith’s Fires in the...
Read MorePosted by Donald Brown | 24th Jan 2022 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven Connecticut stages a revival of Anna Deavere Smith’s Fires in the...
Read MorePosted by WeekendSpecial.Co | 23rd Jan 2022 | Musical Theatre, News, South Africa, Theatre and Politics
Samson, the South African theatrical work produced by Third World Bunfight, is one of six winners...
Read MorePosted by Etcetera | 21st Jan 2022 | Interview, New York, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Every month, Etcetera gazes into the soul of a performing artist. We choose artistic interest over...
Read MorePosted by Tonderai Chiyindiko | 19th Jan 2022 | Review, South Africa, Theatre and Politics
Blood Knot, by legendary South African playwright Athol Fugard, which ran at the Market Theatre in...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 18th Jan 2022 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
The National Theatre has a good record in staging classic American drama by black playwrights....
Read MorePosted by Tonderai Chiyindiko | 17th Jan 2022 | Review, South Africa, Theatre and Politics
In 2017, Coligny, a small dorpie in Bokone Bophirima (North West Province), was thrown into the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 14th Jan 2022 | Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
At the end of the 1960s, American soul poet Gil Scott-Heron said that the revolution will not be...
Read MorePosted by Adam Ashraf Elsayigh | 12th Jan 2022 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Where and when: Harry J. Elam, Jr. Theater at Stanford University from November 11, 12, 13, 18,...
Read MorePosted by Gowri S | 9th Jan 2022 | India, Interview, Theatre and Politics
Sanjoy Ganguly, pioneer of Theatre of the Oppressed in the country, was recently in Chennai for a...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 31st Dec 2021 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
A couple of days ago, I watched a live stream of Milk and Gall, an American-based playwright and...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 29th Dec 2021 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Is the Bosnian conflict of 1992–95 the war that Europe forgot? Maybe, although most fans of new...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 20th Dec 2021 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
The National Theatre has a good record in staging classic American drama by black playwrights....
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 3rd Dec 2021 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Why are we indifferent to anti-Semitism? In the past few weeks the Royal Court, a proud citadel of...
Read MorePosted by Julia Sirmons | 27th Nov 2021 | New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
“I have an aversion to ‘immersive theater,’” Tiago Rodrigues says at the beginning of By Heart. He...
Read MorePosted by Karen Rutter | 11th Nov 2021 | Covid-19, Review, South Africa, Theatre and Politics
I’ve totally enjoyed the many faces of Pieter-Dirk Uys over the years – from his most famous...
Read MorePosted by Duncan Wheeler | 4th Nov 2021 | Essay, Spain, Theatre and Politics
As theatres reopened after the summer recess, the plays on offer in the Spanish capital were...
Read MorePosted by Megan Choritz | 26th Oct 2021 | Review, South Africa, Theatre and Politics
I don’t know how to write this. I am on the verge of tears again, the morning after...
Read MorePosted by Helen Trenos | 20th Oct 2021 | Adaptation, Australia, Review, Theatre and Politics
In 1937, George Orwell witnessed a boy whipping a horse. This was a catalyst for his novel Animal...
Read MorePosted by Gillian Arrighi and Clare Irvine | 18th Oct 2021 | Australia, Covid-19, Theatre and Politics
Australia’s performing arts sector has long been recognized as an ecosystem. It is a community of...
Read MorePosted by Kate Cantrell and David Burton | 14th Oct 2021 | Adaptation, Australia, Essay, Theatre and Politics
The stage adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has opened in Brisbane. Charlie, like...
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