…cases of political pressure are the recent events in Sofia, Bulgaria, when the audience members were physically prevented from entering the building of Ivan Vazov National Theatre by nationalistic groups,…
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…produce a state of mind. The world appears assembled from remnants: things, memories, fragments of movement, sounds that refuse to vanish. In this space, Ilnar Sibgatullin’s music and the remembered…
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…off. The relationship between Dorian and Sybil Vane, the young actress he loves and brutally discards, lasts all of five minutes from her first entrance to her death. Basil Hallward…
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…I couldn’t, because I had a film shoot. When he offered me to rehearse Astrov in his Vanya, I, unfortunately, to my shame, said that I did not feel this…
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…unpaid bills. The old world, with its rituals, comforts, and self-soothing illusions, is vanishing. Chekhov’s final play, written on the brink of the Russian Revolution, has never felt more prophetic….
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…Company’s Barbican Theatre, directed by Adrian Noble, with Alan Rickman as Höfgen. Klaus Maria Brandauer had played the role of Höfgen in the 1981 film directed by István Szabó. For…
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…set of modular pieces that rise from beneath the stage and vanish again just as swiftly. The finale — the double wedding of the twins with Olivia and Orsino —…
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…all of which ground-breaking in their 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…
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…between the articulable and inarticulable explored in ghostly images, theatre’s thereness challenged. Meaning itself can be stated, performed, vanish, reappear – or not. For the past dozen or so years,…
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…Hong Kong. And then, another one that stays with us: another brilliant student, Josiah Rodriguez, whose father was driving vans with essential supplies during the worst of the COVID pandemic,…
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…on their own connections and the unspoken words that linger within them. The Earthquake (English), directed by Samragni Dasgupta, will be staged at Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore…
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…except for Vania Brendel replacing Rodigast as Dagmar. Böhling revived the production for the Packhaustheater with the same cast as the original 2023 production. Men and Women … Duett Surprise,…
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…his latest, The Brightening Air, inspired by working on a version of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya in 2020, he has turned to WB Yeats for the title, and to Irish…
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…accessories etc! It was like taking Van Gogh’s Sunflowers and deciding to make the petals purple! The original show of Phantom in Production and Design is an iconic piece of…
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…other. In the past, it featured artists like Camille O’Sullivan (2009), Nick Cave (1999), Laurie Anderson (2005), or Shefita (2017). The key part of the festival is the Gala Concert…
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…as a great line in forgotten classics. His latest is Jerusalem-born playwright Itai Erdal’s 70-minute one-man show, Soldiers of Tomorrow, which has previously been seen in Vancouver and Edinburgh in…
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…of values of both and the comprehensive social bottom – which throughout the time only changes its forms. The illusions of rich and happy drawing-room homes reveal vanity and pathology….
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…contemporary tables. With the help of fog and very white LED lamps, lightning designer Marc van Denesse created further atmospheric variations of gloom, in addition to the (lack of) colors…
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In this groundbreaking take on William Shakespeare’s bittersweet tragedy, Hector Berlioz combines the playwright’s influence with all the musical drama of Ludwig van Beethoven’s symphonies….
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…Vandad Sadeghi for free from June 26 to 29. A free concert-theatre performance Restless by Sajad Afsharian and Ehsan Abdipour at the City Theatre Complex on June 28 and Rules…
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Chess The Musical: About Human Nature, Not Politics.… 20th May 2026 
Waking Up in the Spotlight with “The Unusual… 24th March 2026 
Christopher Hampton’s “Les Liaisons Dangereuses” at… 8th April 2026 
“No Man’s Land:” Architecture As Collective… 6th July 2026 
“Translators As The Most Attentive And… 26th June 2026 