A Beloved Chinese Classic Gets a Weightless Adaptation
Kunqu opera has made a commercial comeback over the past two decades, but a recent adaptation of...
by Chen Tian | Jul 1, 2023 | China, Chinese Theatre and Opera, Review | 0
Kunqu opera has made a commercial comeback over the past two decades, but a recent adaptation of...
by Wu Changchang | Jul 1, 2023 | China, Essay, Musical Theatre | 0
by Oliver Giles | Jan 2, 2023 | China, Hong Kong, Producing, Theatre and Art | 0
by Oki Rahadianto Sutopo, Annisa R Beta, Arian Utomo, Gregorius Ragil Wibawanto, and Novi Kurnia | Sep 14, 2021 | Covid-19, Essay, Indonesia | 0
Danastri Rizqi Nabilah, a filmmaker from Yogyakarta – a city in Indonesia known for its education...
by Indonesia Expat | Mar 8, 2021 | France, Indonesia, News | 0
by Kuan-Ting Lin | May 12, 2023 | Directing, Review, Taiwan, Theatre and Politics, Transcultural Collaborations | 0
Originally a collection of West Asian folktales, The Arabian Nights may be the series of...
by Todd Sullivan | Jan 6, 2023 | Nigeria, Producing, Taiwan, Theatre and Decolonization, Transcultural Collaborations | 0
by Siraya PAI | Mar 25, 2022 | Denmark, Interview, Taiwan, Transcultural Collaborations, Transmedia | 0
by François Audet, Alexandre P. Bédard, and Caroline Coulombe | Nov 17, 2020 | Cambodia, Essay, Theatre and Art | 0
Even though history has seen different disasters and humanitarian crises, one fact remains: we try...
by Alexa Alice Joubin | Jun 12, 2021 | Adaptation, Essay, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, South Korea | 0
During the AAPI (Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders) heritage month, let us explore the...
by Rossella Ferrari | Nov 22, 2020 | China, Hong Kong, News, Singapore, Taiwan, Transcultural Collaborations | 0
by Yana Meerzon | Jul 23, 2017 | Festivals, France, Vietnam | 0
In Saigon, Caroline Guiela Nguyen has created a four-hour theatrical tale based on the history of...
by May Tran | Apr 10, 2017 | Australia, Musical Theatre, Theatre and Politics, Vietnam | 0
by Sruti Bala and Rashna D. Nicholson | Nov 22, 2023 | Education, India, Theatre and Politics | 0
What is the task of a humanities education? The following incident, which recently took place in...
by Narenda Kusnur | Sep 14, 2023 | Festivals, India, News | 0
by Jingyi Zhang | Jan 18, 2023 | Festivals, Japan, Prototype 2023, Review, Theatre and Opera, United States of America | 0
note to a friend, composed by Pulitzer prize-winning composer David Lang, is a chamber opera...
by Nobuko Tanaka | Apr 4, 2022 | Japan, Musical Theatre, Review | 0
by Nobuko Tanaka | Jan 15, 2022 | Applied Theatre, Japan, News, Theatre and Age | 0
by Nobuko Tanaka | Dec 8, 2021 | Japan, Review, Theatre and Opera | 0
by Soo Ryon Yoon | Nov 26, 2023 | Review, South Korea, Theatre and Dance | 0
In this day and age, the word data evokes preconceived images of algorithms, artificial...
by Clare Cioffero | Jan 3, 2023 | New York, Playwriting, Puppetry, South Korea, United States of America | 0
by Niloofar Mohtadi | Nov 3, 2021 | Iran, Review, Transmedia, United Kingdom | 0
The play Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran, authentically narrates the story of a...
by Niloofar Mohtadi | Jun 4, 2021 | Festivals, Iran, News | 0
by Ani Harutyunyan | Mar 31, 2017 | Armenia, Management | 0
The development of independent theatres in Yerevan has become an important topic for discussion as...
by Ani Harutyunyan | Dec 31, 2016 | Armenia, Asia, Essay, Management | 0
by Ani Harutyunyan | Sep 30, 2016 | Armenia, Directing, Essay | 0
by Aleks Sierz | Dec 10, 2022 | Israel, London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom | 0
Julia Pascal is a resourceful theatre-maker who is unafraid of being controversial. Her interest...
by Najwa Kondakji | Aug 11, 2021 | Dramaturgy, Germany, Interview, Syria | 0
Ayham Majid Agha is a Syrian actor, dramaturge, and director. After studying theater arts at...
by Amir Al-Azraki | Jan 8, 2023 | Essay, Iraq, Theatre and Politics | 0
Introduction The ongoing unsettling shift of my identity from a “white” Iraqi back home (in Iraq)...
by Amir Al-Azraki | Jun 28, 2021 | Interview, Iraq, Playwriting | 0
by Mustafa Habib | Jan 1, 2020 | Iraq, News, Theatre and Politics | 0
by Amir Al-Azraki | Jun 9, 2019 | Iraq, Review, Theatre and Gender | 0
by The Theatre Times | Feb 12, 2017 | Bangladesh, Directing, Interview | 0
Showing Kunti’s first born in a different light, young Bangladeshi director Jayita Mahahlanobish...
by Ahram Online | Aug 3, 2023 | Festivals, Jordan, News | 0
Egypt is represented by one play and a jury member at the second edition of Jordan’s...
by Ahram Online | Jul 20, 2020 | News, Saudi Arabia, Theatre and Art | 0
Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Culture, Badr bin Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Farhan Al Saud,...
by Ahram Online | Mar 19, 2021 | Management, News, United Arab Emirates | 0
Held under the theme “The Cultural Economy and the Economy of Culture” the Culture...
by Soo Ryon Yoon | Nov 26, 2023 | Review, South Korea, Theatre and Dance
In this day and age, the word data evokes preconceived images of algorithms, artificial...
Read Moreby Sruti Bala and Rashna D. Nicholson | Nov 22, 2023 | Education, India, Theatre and Politics
What is the task of a humanities education? The following incident, which recently took place in...
Read Moreby Aleks Sierz | Oct 18, 2023 | India, London, Review, Theatre and Decolonization, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Anniversaries are great moments for reassessment. Ten years ago, the Royal Shakespeare Company...
Read Moreby The Hindu | Sep 20, 2023 | India, News, Theatre and Decolonization, Theatre and Gender, Worldwide
Mangri Orang, a tea plantation worker, was gunned down by British security personnel in 1921 for...
Read Moreby Aleks Sierz | Sep 19, 2023 | Documentary Theatre, India, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Nobodies who kill somebodies: let’s make a list. Okay, there’s Lee Harvey Oswald (JFK), James Earl...
Read Moreby Narenda Kusnur | Sep 14, 2023 | Festivals, India, News
The Hoshruba Repertory Theatre Festival, which begins on September 12 at Prithvi Theatre in...
Read Moreby Walter Byongsok Chon | Sep 9, 2023 | Review, South Korea, Theatre and Dance
Writing Using is the most recent work by Ahn Aesoon, one of the most renowned contemporary dancers...
Read Moreby Duška Radosavljević | Aug 16, 2023 | Edinburgh 2023, Review, Scotland, South Korea
There are multiple ways to admire this production of a Greek classic, directed by Singaporean Ong...
Read Moreby Ahram Online | Aug 3, 2023 | Festivals, Jordan, News
Egypt is represented by one play and a jury member at the second edition of Jordan’s...
Read Moreby Molly Grogan | Jul 10, 2023 | Directing, Essay, Hong Kong, Musical Theatre
Some performers were born to be on Broadway, and Eugene Ma could easily be among them: The...
Read Moreby Chen Tian | Jul 1, 2023 | China, Chinese Theatre and Opera, Review
Kunqu opera has made a commercial comeback over the past two decades, but a recent adaptation of...
Read Moreby Wu Changchang | Jul 1, 2023 | China, Essay, Musical Theatre
The pandemic was unusually kind to China’s musical theater scene, but an obsession with...
Read Moreby Molly Grogan | Jun 15, 2023 | Adaptation, Hong Kong, Interview, Theatre and Religion
If Hong Kong was the setting for a hero’s journey — the storytelling arc of trials and temptations...
Read Moreby Walter Byongsok Chon | Jun 4, 2023 | Musical Theatre, New York, Review, South Korea, Transcultural Collaborations
KPOP is a new musical, with a book by Jason Kim and music by Helen Park and Max Vernon. It...
Read MoreGillo Repertory Theatre presented the play, Rangchor, Ek Rakshas Ki Anokhi Kahani (The Colour...
Read Moreby Anasuya Menon | May 21, 2023 | Documentary Theatre, India, Interview, Theatre and Disability
Sylvia, a play scripted and directed by Athira Nikathil, is an intimate portrayal of the life of...
Read Moreby Kuan-Ting Lin | May 12, 2023 | Directing, Review, Taiwan, Theatre and Politics, Transcultural Collaborations
Originally a collection of West Asian folktales, The Arabian Nights may be the series of...
Read Moreby Anna Gryszkiewicz | Apr 14, 2023 | China, Festivals, Review, Transmedia
Even though for the last decade there have been numerous attempts to unleash Chinese theatre’s...
Read Moreby Tim Hamilton | Apr 10, 2023 | Chicago, Palestine, Review, Theatre and Decolonization, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Hummus is not appropriated hipster dip, it’s Palestinian food. So argues Wally, a...
Read Moreby Jingyi Zhang | Jan 18, 2023 | Festivals, Japan, Prototype 2023, Review, Theatre and Opera, United States of America
note to a friend, composed by Pulitzer prize-winning composer David Lang, is a chamber opera...
Read Moreby Saraswathy Nagarajan | Jan 16, 2023 | Festivals, India, News, Theatre and Gender
A day in the museum turns out to be an unforgettable journey across time and regions for six...
Read Moreby Amir Al-Azraki | Jan 8, 2023 | Essay, Iraq, Theatre and Politics
Introduction The ongoing unsettling shift of my identity from a “white” Iraqi back home (in Iraq)...
Read Moreby Todd Sullivan | Jan 6, 2023 | Nigeria, Producing, Taiwan, Theatre and Decolonization, Transcultural Collaborations
It began as a direct message conversation between two black creatives: Ghanniy Oyedele from...
Read Moreby Clare Cioffero | Jan 3, 2023 | New York, Playwriting, Puppetry, South Korea, United States of America
The simplicity of the set was enriched with exquisite lighting design, by Oliver Wason, depicting the starry heavens above, exploding bombs, flocks of butterflies, even projections of characters.
Read Moreby Oliver Giles | Jan 2, 2023 | China, Hong Kong, Producing, Theatre and Art
Para Site, one of Hong Kong’s leading contemporary art spaces, is famous for its sprawling,...
Read Moreby T.R. Sudha | Dec 13, 2022 | Acting, India, Review
Two well-known theater groups, JB Creations and Stage Creations, collaborate for the first time to...
Read Moreby Aleks Sierz | Dec 10, 2022 | Israel, London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Julia Pascal is a resourceful theatre-maker who is unafraid of being controversial. Her interest...
Read Moreby Gowri S | Dec 7, 2022 | Applied Theatre, Devised Theatre, India, News
Tamil contemporary theatre in the city sees a promising resurgence as new faces debut on stage...
Read MoreIt was well past midnight on October 2, 2021. Current Plans—at the time known as Present...
Read Moreby The Hindu | Oct 16, 2022 | Adaptation, India, Interview, Theatre and Gender
The play seeks to draw parallels between Desdemona from Othello and select women from Indian epics...
Read Moreby Rossella Ferrari | Oct 1, 2022 | Adaptation, China, Directing, Festivals, Hong Kong, Poland, Review
Tang Xianzu’s sixteenth-century classic, Peony Pavilion (1598), is a play about boundaries and...
Read Moreby Aleks Sierz | Sep 26, 2022 | London, Palestine, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Identity is the sum of the stories we tell ourselves. Some of these are personal, and some...
Read Moreby Kee-Yoon Nahm | Sep 9, 2022 | Interview, Playwriting, South Korea, Theatre and Politics, Translation
To read Part 1 of this interview, click here. Nahm: Let’s talk now about Texas Aunt. I said...
Read Moreby Kee-Yoon Nahm | Sep 8, 2022 | Interview, Playwriting, South Korea, Theatre and Politics, Translation
Yun Mi Hyun is a playwright based in South Korea. After writing fiction and poetry in her early...
Read Moreby Eylem Ejder | Aug 29, 2022 | Canada, Interview, Theatre and Decolonization, Translation, Turkey
Dr. Art Babayants is a multilingual artist-scholar who lives and works in what is now called...
Read Moreby Aleks Sierz | Aug 14, 2022 | India, London, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
While Britain is experiencing a “summer of discontent”, with inflation, strikes and other...
Read Moreby Deborah Augustin | Aug 11, 2022 | Afghanistan, Applied Theatre, Interview, Malaysia, Theatre and Politics
The pioneering theatre company, founded and run by Afghan theatre maker and refugee, Saleh Sepas,...
Read Moreby Jonathan Kalb | Aug 10, 2022 | Adaptation, Afghanistan, Directing, Review, United States of America
Khaled Hosseini’s 2003 novel The Kite Runner is a vividly descriptive and often gripping tale of...
Read Moreby Daily Sabah | Jul 30, 2022 | Festivals, News, Theatre and Opera, Turkey
Turkish opera’s great master, composer, and conductor Okan Demiriş’s ‘Murat...
Read Moreby Usha Raman | Jul 28, 2022 | India, Interview, Management, Theatre and Film
Karnad spoke about his life as a writer and cultural administrator, his accidental foray into...
Read Moreby Gowri S | Jul 15, 2022 | Festivals, India, News, Theatre for Young Audiences
The Little Theatre is set to unleash two years of pent-up creativity in its returning edition of...
Read Moreby Daily Sabah | Jul 14, 2022 | Festivals, News, Theatre and Opera, Turkey
The festival will commence with the “7 Tenor” concert on July 16 and close with a...
Read Moreby Molly Grogan | Jul 10, 2022 | China, Hong Kong, News, Producing, Theatre and Politics
Hong Kong’s branding campaign as “Asia’s World City” sings the praises of its liveability,...
Read Moreby Yizhou Zhang | Jul 5, 2022 | China, LGBTQ Theatre, London, Review, Theatre and Disability, United Kingdom
As London celebratess the 50th anniversary of the Pride Parade on July 2, I’m reminded of the only...
Read Moreby Praveen Sudevan | Jun 30, 2022 | India, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Politics
For most of the last two years, Bengaluru-based actor and playwright Spatica Ramanujam was feeling...
Read Moreby Neeraja Murthy | Jun 19, 2022 | Acting, Devised Theatre, Essay, India
Production-oriented workshops culminate in ticketed Telugu plays in Hyderabad. A manager by day...
Read Moreby Aprameya Manthena | Jun 16, 2022 | Applied Theatre, Essay, India, Theatre and Decolonization
Attired in a crisp white dhoti with a red zari border, bleached white shirt and angavastram, one...
Read Moreby Siting Yang | Jun 4, 2022 | Adaptation, China, New York, News, Theatre and Decolonization, United States of America
Sky of Darkness is enjoying its US premiere June 2-12 at Theaterlab in Midtown Manhattan. The...
Read Moreby Philippa Wehle | Jun 1, 2022 | Musical Theatre, New York, Review, South Korea, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
The Legend of The Waitress & The Robber, a new musical theater piece by Renee Philippi, a...
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