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…not) and deadening “Driving to work” (for page after page), at a snappy pace which suggests the speed of time passing. It is a life from the vantage point of…
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 8th Jun 2023 | London, News, Review, United Kingdom
…not) and deadening “Driving to work” (for page after page), at a snappy pace which suggests the speed of time passing. It is a life from the vantage point of…
Read MorePosted by Alexander Fatouros | 21st Mar 2024 | Acting, Interview, New York, Theatre and Film, United States of America
…family TV night. That meant shows like The Ed Sullivan Show, The Twilight Zone, Star Trek among others. Mom loved her Telenovela—they were so melodramatic but I’d watch with her….
Read MorePosted by Ariadne Mikou | 31st May 2025 | Italy, Review, Theatre and Dance
…Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert. For a piece complete from any angle – even though Spencer Theberge’s voiceover soundtrack on the nature of the “contemporary” seems by now unnecessary…
Read MorePosted by David O'Donnell | 28th Jun 2023 | Education, New Zealand, News, Oceania
…Department Vincent O’Sullivan. The original course was called Drama 2: Introduction to Drama, and was restricted to 30 students. Among the students in the first class was Robert Lord, a…
Read MorePosted by Meiling Cheng | 29th Jun 2023 | Participatory Theatre, TF54, Theatre Forum
Converging Divergent Worlds Three artists were caught in an arms’ race, each sinking teeth into a neighbor’s forearm. This performance’s score stipulates having three people standing in a circle and…
Read MorePosted by Kuan-Ting Lin | 14th Feb 2025 | Essay, News, Playwriting, Taiwan
…award in 2007. In his winning play Countdown (倒數計時), Chi explores the vanity and hollowness of contemporary Taiwan through six characters waiting for the new year. Later, in 2013, Chi…
Read MorePosted by Kasia Lech | 8th Apr 2024 | Dramaturgy, Interview, Theatre and Politics
…For me, it has to grow out of genuinely multilingual content and context. Vanja Hamidi Isacson, Playwright and Dramaturg (Sweden) I think theatre has to include all experiences and all…
Read MorePosted by Meeke van Raak | 1st Sep 2024 | New Theatre for Children Festival, Wrocław 2024, Poland, Review, Slovakia
…Slovakia. Meeke van Raak is a student at the University of Amsterdam. This text was written by students as part of the collaboration between the University of Amsterdam, the University…
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 Alexander Fatouros | 28th Jul 2023 | Directing, Interview, New York, Theatre and Film, United States of America
…aristocrat Agnes van Rhijn who reigns over an established order. “Well, it was fantastic working with Salli. I adore her. She is a completely original director with her own voice….
Read MorePosted by Ilinca Todoruţ | 13th Oct 2024 | Review, Romania, Theatre and Politics
…of the upper middle class. Topped by a geometric candelabra that throws shade in concentric, sleek circles around the couch, Răzvan Bordoș’ stage design for Florian Zeller’s 2018 play The…
Read MorePosted by Amir Al-Azraki | 19th Feb 2026 | Essay, Iraq, Theatre and Politics
…political uncertainty, and conservative religious frameworks. Theatre has not vanished under these conditions. It has learned to speak carefully, to occupy smaller spaces, and to persist through continuity rather than…
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 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 Magda Romanska and Kasia Lech | 27th Jan 2024 | Editorial, Essay, Worldwide
…9 December 2016.” https://thetheatretimes.com/theatre-times-now/ [3] Theatre and Performance Podcast. On TAP. January 24, 2017. https://www.ontappod.com/home/2017/1/24/010-1 [4] Yana Meerzon, Katharina Pewny, and Tessa Vannieuwenhuyze, “Introduction: Migration and Multilingualism,” Modern Drama, vol….
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…
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