Uncle Actor
…actorly vanity and insecurity up against the quirky vanities and insecurities of Chekhov’s characters and holds the result up to us as a fabulously silly mirror that’s also profoundly illuminating….
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 12th Apr 2025 | Adaptation, New York, Review
…actorly vanity and insecurity up against the quirky vanities and insecurities of Chekhov’s characters and holds the result up to us as a fabulously silly mirror that’s also profoundly illuminating….
Read MorePosted by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar | 5th Sep 2025 | Belgium, Interview, Management
…makers, composers and performers made it their specialty and were invited with their projects all over the world. Famous names like Ivo Van Hove or Alain Platel made a lot…
Read MorePosted by Ellen Pearlman | 17th Feb 2025 | Interview, Theatre and AI, Theatre and Science, United States of America
Ellen Pearlman interviewed by Ivo Marais To read PART I of this interview, go to this link. I: Visual AI is at the heart of this piece, almost like…
Read MorePosted by Emilija Kvočka | 16th Jun 2024 | Festivals, Review, Serbia
…– as symbols of consumer society and as representatives of consumerism in their gardens. The title of the novel by Jurica Pavičić, as well as the dramatization by Ivor Martinić,…
Read MorePosted by Annette Balaam | 15th Dec 2023 | Design, London, United Kingdom
…daylight created the most wonderful experience of the infinite variety and play of light and shadow waltzing merrily across the floor, doors, walls and ceiling. Two hooded hairdryers hover over…
Read MorePosted by Allison Berkoy | 29th Aug 2021 | Estonia, Interview, Theatre and AI, Theatre and Opera, Theatre and Science
…her see the different visuals that came up as she was speaking, so she had direct feedback. She learned, oh, if I emphasize this, the visuals change, my brainwaves change,…
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 8th Feb 2024 | Review, Spain
Shakespeare’s King Lear has defied composers who refused invitations to render this bleakest of tragedies into opera: Berlioz, Britten, Verdi were all at some point approached about an operatic version,…
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 10th Mar 2025 | Directing, Italy, Review
…such as Lord and Lady Montague, Peter, the Musicians and Citizens. A director who decides to stage Shakespeare today should ideally be motivated by a strong central idea about the…
Read MorePosted by Jack Wernick | 20th Aug 2024 | Adaptation, Argentina, Interview
…was wonderful in classic theater, Shakespeare. But with Oscar we talk for a few minutes, we are saying all the time, “what is next?” I said no to five or…
Read MorePosted by S.E. Gontarski | 5th Dec 2023 | Collaborating Across Cultures, Poland, Theatre and Film, Translation
…of Between.Pomiędzy Research Group. References Between.Pomiędzy festival link: https://www.between.org.pl/en/festivals/kosmopolis/between-research/chapter-3 [Includes links to films.] Breath—Text—Breath https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxnTzeCtdO0 Gontarski, S. E. “Ghosts of Love: ‘Ohio Impromptu,’ and ‘… but the Clouds…
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 23rd Nov 2025 | Adaptation, Italy, Review
…recent interpretations of the King, such as Jonjo O’Neill’s Richard at the Royal Shakespeare Company during the World Shakespeare Festival in 2018, or the 2024 award-winning production at Belfast’s Lyric…
Read MorePosted by Kasia Lech | 10th Jul 2025 | Festivals, News, Poland
Seventeen productions, including nine premieres, from Japan, Ukraine, the UK, Spain, and Poland, will be showcased as part of the 29th International Shakespeare Festival in Gdańsk, running from 25 July…
Read MorePosted by Clare Cioffero | 10th Apr 2023 | Acting, New York, Review, United States of America
…is the added mystery of the play’s authorship. According to the program, the play was originally published without attribution. Then, in subsequent years, Will Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Kyd, and…
Read MorePosted by Mara Valderrama | 5th May 2014 | Interview, Playwriting, Spain
…llevando a cabo políticas que parecen buscar su destrucción. Si la dramaturgia siempre ha sido un oficio de resistencia, de persistencia, ahora lo es más. El dramaturgo (vivo) ha sido…
Read MorePosted by Jack Wernick | 25th Oct 2018 | New York, Review, Theatre and Dance, United States of America
…work evokes that seen on bigger stages, most notably the recent production of The Damned by Ivo van Hove at Manhattan’s Armory over the summer. Kate McGee’s atmospheric lighting design…
Read MorePosted by Mert Dilek | 28th Aug 2025 | Edinburgh 2025, Review, United Kingdom
…Salomão. The influence of Pinter and Shepard on the script is evident, though the directorial style, with echoes of Ivo van Hove, makes it feel distinctly contemporary. At over two…
Read MorePosted by The Theatre Times | 28th May 2024 | Dramaturgy, New York, News, United States of America
…an Exit, explored the complexities of dementia and aging. Throughout her career, Professor Fuchs published countless scholarly articles in anthologies and journals, as well as theater criticism in The Village…
Read MorePosted by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar | 12th Feb 2025 | Greece, Interview, Theatre and Politics
…Performing Arts Critics” (https://www.greektheatrecritics.gr/) and most of them – if not all of them – are theatrologists. Finally, the rest of the theatre and music critics became members of the…
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 29th Apr 2024 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
…is aghast. Both these actors are worth seeing whatever the ambivalences in Morgan’s script. Uncle Vanya, Lila Neugebauer, Vivan Beaumont Theater, USA, 2024, photo credits: Marc J. Franklin. Uncle Vanya,…
Read MorePosted by Katarzyna Kułakowska, Katarzyna Kalinowska, Olga Drygas, Michał Bargielski | 29th Mar 2021 | Applied Theatre, Covid-19, Essay, Poland
…7, 2020, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/07/what-corona virus-can-teach-us-about-hope-rebecca-solnit. 13. Konstanty Puzyna, “Rola społeczna teatrów studenckich,” in Syntezy za trzy grosze (Warszawa: PIW, 1974), 169, https://www.encyklopediateatru.pl/ksiazka/409/syntezy-za-trzy grosze/strona/177. 14. Wojciech Dudzik has highlighted the ever-increasing scope…
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“Trilogia Cadela Força – Capítulo II:… by Jenny Strataki 6th August 2025
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James Graham’s “Punch” at the Apollo Theatre:… by Aleks Sierz 30th September 2025 
Nearly Finished by Jonathan Kalb 15th November 2025