New York City Fringe Begins April 1
…a little bit. Vanessa Peruda in All the Rage. Press photo. MZ: How do you feel about that? EZ: I like the variety. I like, you know, being able…
Read MorePosted by Marcina Zaccaria | 25th Mar 2026 | Featured, Festivals, Interview, New York
…a little bit. Vanessa Peruda in All the Rage. Press photo. MZ: How do you feel about that? EZ: I like the variety. I like, you know, being able…
Read MorePosted by Unnur Hlíf Rúnarsdóttir | 6th Aug 2025 | Holland Festival 2025, Netherlands, Review
…unique ways: American Trajal Harrell offered a format of attending “work in progress”, Michel van der Aa’s work experiments with AI and opera in novel ways and Carolina Bianchi already…
Read MorePosted by Ilinca Todoruţ | 13th Dec 2024 | France, Japan, Kyoto Experiment 2024, Review
…full earnestness how the show is “a hymn to liberation.” On the website of Dance Reflections, a generous funding and support program patronized by the French luxury jewelry brand Van…
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 14th May 2024 | Festivals, Italy, Theatre and Art
…had invaded her most inner self, and it was time to leave her in peace. Staging and Concept: Romeo Castellucci; music: Scott Gibbons; costumes: Iris Van Herpen; lighting: Andrea Sanson….
Read MorePosted by Barbara Gabriel | 19th Oct 2024 | Canada, China, Review, Theatre and Politics
…China. It returns us to Miller’s revered reputation as moral Cold War hero, only to cut it off at the knees. On September 13, 2007 Vanity Fair published a remarkable…
Read MorePosted by Aisha Malik | 20th Mar 2023 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Gender
Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl and follows her to India. Boy has a transformative tantric sexual experience and realizes he might like boys too? Boy, girl…
Read MorePosted by Verity Healey | 27th Oct 2025 | Bosnia, Review, Theatre and Politics
…important locations, which are staged at the same time. Designer Isabella Van Braeckel, in Cheng Keng’s dark light and Jovana Backovič’s bristling sound, envelops the whole play within the skeletal…
Read MorePosted by Written by Mohammad Kazem Damghani, Directed by Melika Mirzaei and Mohammed Kazem Damghani, Gray Room Theatre (2021), Iran | 1st Apr 2000 | IOTF 2023
…with the Roshan Institute. Featuring Azadeh Ganjeh, Nassim Soleimanpour, Keyvan Sarreshteh, and moderator Marjan Moosavi, this conversation exploreS Iranian theatre artists’ ethical vision and creative practice in response to the…
Read MorePosted by L. Peter Callender | 3rd Jan 2026 | Iran, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
…is a truly immigrant production, one that fuses multiple cultures seamlessly”—and nowhere is this more evident than in the extraordinary music by composer Sirvan Manoobi. As he reflects in the…
Read MorePosted by Emilija Kvočka | 16th Dec 2024 | Directing, Macedonia, Review
…good and evil. They are both cries and whispers. Is this divine punishment or mortal justice? No Power for the Electric Chair directed by Dejan Projkovski, foto: Ivan Kamchev …
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 15th Aug 2024 | Festivals, Finland, Portugal, Review, Tampere Theatre Festival 2024
…much as in Uncle Vanya or Michael Cimino’s 1978 film The Deer Hunter. The easy mood, however, is about to be blown apart: for the audience soon discover that this…
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 6th Apr 2023 | Adaptation, Denmark, Musical Theatre, Review
…of this production is between Arbo and composer Thijs van Vuure which results in enabling the acting ensemble to also perform as singers/musicians in a seamless and fully integrated way…
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 22nd Oct 2025 | Musical Theatre, Review, United States of America
…whose plan to marry his beloved Sarah is thwarted when a racist gang vandalizes his car, he is denied justice, and Sarah is killed trying to help. Nichelle Lewis (Sarah)…
Read MorePosted by Heather Waters | 6th Oct 2023 | Boston, Interview, United States of America
…long did you live in Turkey? VY: Almost two years. During the first year I was living with refugees from Syria, Iraq, and Iran in the city of Van’s U.N….
Read MorePosted by Teodora Medeleanu | 6th Aug 2025 | Poland, Review, Theatre and Religion
…Miodek and Michał Jaros) sees her life vanishing away as a result of drug usage, herself living through a hell, in severe withdrawal, yet perfectly aware of how her dreams…
Read MorePosted by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar | 5th Feb 2025 | Playwriting, Slovenia, Theatre and Gender
…are reviving a part of the Slovenian folklore – oral tradition, but also of the tradition of the great Slovenian playwright Ivan Cankar and his dramatic requiem Beautiful Vida? SS:…
Read MorePosted by Ilinca Todoruţ | 12th Dec 2024 | Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Kyoto Experiment 2024, Review
…the Last Dance for Me explores a nearly vanished popular tradition that emerged in Bologna in the 1900s: the polka chinata, or crouched polka. The dance’s distinguishing trait is the…
Read MorePosted by Mert Dilek | 20th Dec 2023 | London, Review, United Kingdom
…Kathleen MacInnes and musicians Brian James O’Sullivan and Alasdair Macrae (also the composer). Rosanna Vize’s minimalist design effectively bifurcates the action between a white platform, which also doubles as a…
Read MorePosted by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar | 21st Dec 2023 | Acting, Interview, Macedonia
…intuitive, lucid, transformative in acting, also artistically-creatively and by interpretation/s – and you selflessly (contra stage egos and vanities around us) you offer many very good acting options-versions. Can you…
Read MorePosted by Verity Healey | 2nd Jan 2026 | Kosovo, Review, South Africa
…hold the Kanuns have is so hard. Not only is there family expectation and generations of it, but the dead also must be vanquished. There is a scene where an…
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