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“The Outrun”

Posted by Margaret Rose | 13th Aug 2024 | Edinburgh 2024, Festivals, Review, United Kingdom

…she feels like ‘a vanishing lady,’ her words, Woman decides to join a therapy group, in a scene where she must finally confront her demons. In the final scenes, having…

Barbarians in Midtown

Posted 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)…

Trauma In Translation: Stratford’s Milestone Salesman In China

Posted 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…

“Sex Magick”: This Gender-Bending, Time-Traveling Play Invites You to Detangle Love and Sex

Posted 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…

LegalAlien’s “The Flowers of Srebrenica”: Theatre as Healing

Posted 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…

Opheliation

Posted 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…

“No Power for the Electric Chair ” – Crime of Theatrical Absurd

Posted 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 …

“Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists” at the Tampere Theatre Festival: Do We Defend Democracy by Breaking Its Rules?

Posted 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…

“The Iliad” at Betty Nansen Theatre, Copenhagen

Posted 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…

(LA)HORDE’s Flash Mob Revolution

Posted 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…

The TikTok-isation Of Theatre? – “Dziewczyna, Która Podeptała Chleb”

Posted 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…

La Vie En Sickly Rose: Florian Zeller’s “The Son” at the German State Theatre

Posted 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…

There Is Nothing To Know About The Theatre, There Is Everything To Discover About Theatre

Posted 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:…

Melati Suryodarmo and Alessandro Sciarroni Moving Within Patriarchy

Posted 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…

“Macbeth” at the Donmar Warehouse

Posted 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…

Great Acting: Training Your Mind and Body to be Perceptive – Learning About Yourself and Your Surroundings. An Interview with Zdravko Stojmirov

Posted 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…

At the End of the Land: an avalanche of images that invites us to sit alone in time and space together

Posted by Leah Mercer | 22nd Dec 2023 | Australia, Review

…young women in a Victorian-era boarding house. Speaking as one of these vanished women about “the day we all died” and what it’s like to be dead, Rubin guides the…

Miriam Battye’s “Little Scratch” at the New Diorama Theatre: Restaged Adaptation of Rebecca Watson’s Novel Is Powerfully Theatrical

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 21st Apr 2023 | London, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom

…Eve Ponsonby, and Ragevan Vasan — wear dark clothes and perform the words as if they are playing a 90-minute musical quartet. There is something fascinating about hearing the different…

Playwriting The “Next Generation.” How To Create A Character At The University Of Arts In Târgu-Mureș.

Posted by Anda Cadariu | 25th Jul 2024 | Interview, Playwriting, Romania

…I met Suzanne van Lohuizen from the Netherlands, who has unfortunately now passed away. She was my first teacher and she was excellent for me. I was in my twenties…

Keeping Alive the U.N.’s Dialogue Among Civilizations – as Theatre

Posted 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….