Theatre and Science Archives - The Theatre Times

Stephen Brown And Mark Rylance’s “Dr Semmelweis” At The Harold Pinter Theatre

Posted by Mert Dilek | 25th Jul 2023 | Review, Theatre and Science, United Kingdom

Today’s obvious was most likely yesterday’s incredible. This is the conceit at the heart of Dr...

Sarah Middleton’s “Shewolves” at the Southwark Playhouse: Energetic Teen Fairy Tale

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 6th Jul 2023 | Review, Theatre and Science, United Kingdom

Climate-change activist Greta Thunberg is great at doing two things: irritating complacent adults...

Theater, A Major Job Sector

Posted by Heather Waters | 2nd Apr 2023 | Essay, Theatre and Politics, Theatre and Science, Transmedia

That AI is poised to take over countless jobs, wipe out entire job sectors, is all over the news...

More Than 2,000 People from Wittenoom Died of Asbestos-Related Diseases. A Powerful and Compelling Requiem Brings Their Story to the Stage

Posted by Kate Hunter | 17th Feb 2023 | Australia, Melbourne, Review, Theatre and Science

Deep in the remote Pilbara region of Western Australia, the town of Wittenoom lies empty,...

The Brazilian Experience with Different Forms of Technopresence in Theatre: Os Satyros and SP Escola de Teatro

Posted by Rodolfo García Vázquez | 6th Feb 2023 | Brazil, Covid-19, Essay, Poland, Theatre and Science, Transcultural Collaborations

Praça Roosevelt (Roosevelt Square) is a square located in downtown São Paulo. It was a historic...

“Sonne, los jetzt!”: Elfriede Jelinek’s Reversed Heliotropism for the End Times

Posted by Toni Hildebrandt and Zainabu Jallo | 22nd Jan 2023 | Adaptation, Review, Switzerland, Theatre and Gender, Theatre and Science

Sonne, los jetzt!, Elfriede Jelinek’s new theater piece, is imperative with an unknown addressee....

Coding Confronting Stories

Posted by Zip Scene Magazine | 5th Dec 2022 | Interview, Slovakia, Theatre and Science

Boris Vitázek is a new media artist based in Bratislava, but his work can be seen at various international festivals. He gave a workshop on coding in VR at the 4th Zip-Scene Conference and with this occasion we asked him about...

Martin Crimp’s “Not One of These People” at the Royal Court: Radical Investigation of Presence and Absence in Fiction

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 12th Nov 2022 | Canada, Dramaturgy, Review, Theatre and Science, United Kingdom

The fictional world is our world, but at the same time it’s another place; likewise, the digital...

VR and Theater Finally Make a Climate Baby: “From Sea To Rising Sea” Interview with Creator-Director-Choreographer Mary John Frank

Posted by Fareeda Pyracha Ahmed | 22nd Sep 2022 | Immersive Theatre, Interview, New York, Theatre and Science, United States of America

Technology and the theater are closer together than ever, and our hope for the planet may depend...

Imagine/: Artificial Intelligence Comes to Theatrical Design

Posted by Michael Schweikardt | 17th Sep 2022 | Design, Interview, Theatre and Science, Transmedia, United States of America

Lately, I have been seeing examples of Jason Jamerson’s theatrical design work on Instagram...

South Australia’s Limestone Coast Was Formed from the Bones of Dead Fish. “Cathedral” Brings the Story of These Caves to the Stage

Posted by William Peterson | 30th May 2022 | Australia, Design, Review, Theatre and Science

Review: Cathedral, directed by Shannon Rush for the State Theatre Company of South Australia...

Medical Science and the Irony of Sex Education

Posted by Sindhu Nagaraj | 10th Mar 2022 | India, Review, Theatre and Gender, Theatre and Science

The Amazing Flabby-Breasted Virgin shows the poor light in which women’s bodies are seen in the...

Free Performance: A Response to metaLAB’s futureStage Manifesto

Posted by Ilinca Todoruţ | 4th Mar 2022 | Essay, Germany, Theatre and Science, Transmedia, United States of America

On November 20, 2021, TheTheatreTimes.com published futureStage Manifesto, developed by...

“Uncanny Valley” at The Battersea Arts Centre

Posted by Duška Radosavljević | 2nd Mar 2022 | Germany, London, Review, Theatre and Science, Transmedia, United Kingdom

When Uncanny Valley premiered back in 2018, the idea of artificial intelligence augmenting or...

Dissecting the Camera: Shifting Positions Between Theatre and Science

Posted by Nele Wynants | 29th Jan 2022 | Belgium, Essay, Theatre and Science

Defined as “a place to observe” The Theatron (theatre) has been an experimental platform for...

Four Times Shakespeare Has Inspired Stories About Robots and AI

Posted by Sarah Annes Brown | 25th Jan 2022 | Adaptation, Essay, Theatre and Science, United Kingdom

Science fiction is a genre very much associated with technological marvels, innovations, and...

Women in Science in Theater – Transforma Theatre Paves a New Crossroads with Stunning Insight

Posted by Fareeda Pyracha Ahmed | 1st Dec 2021 | Review, Theatre and Science, United States of America

For anyone wondering if live theater offers nothing but escapism from our mini-plague—or worse—on...

Interview with Ellen Pearlman about AIBO, an “Emotionally Intelligent” Artificial Intelligent Brainwave Opera. Part 2.

Posted by Allison Berkoy | 29th Aug 2021 | Estonia, Interview, Theatre and Opera, Theatre and Science

This is PART 2 of the interview. To read PART 1, click here. AB: What questions were you exploring...

Interview with Ellen Pearlman about AIBO, an “Emotionally Intelligent” Artificial Intelligent Brainwave Opera. Part 1.

Posted by Allison Berkoy | 24th Aug 2021 | Estonia, Interview, Theatre and Opera, Theatre and Science

Conducted 2/17/20 by Allison Berkoy, Assistant Professor City Tech, CUNY New York. This interview...

Robots Were Dreamt up 100 Years Ago – Why Haven’t Our Fears About Them Changed Since?

Posted by Michael Szollosy | 2nd Mar 2021 | Czech Republic, News, Theatre and Science

This is a story you will have heard before. A genius but completely mad scientist – with the backing of a ruthlessly greedy corporation – creates a sentient robot. The scientist’s intentions for the robot are noble: to help us...