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“Is Love Energy Or Matter?” An Interview With Rok Vilcnik, Slovenian Playwright, Author, Musician, Poet

Posted by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar | 11th Mar 2026 | Interview, Macedonia, Playwriting, Slovenia

Rok Vilčnik (b. 1968), also known as rokgre, is a prominent Slovenian author, poet, playwright,...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 in 22 Shows

Posted by Mert Dilek | 28th Aug 2025 | Edinburgh 2025, Review, United Kingdom

This year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe was as sprawling and invigorating as ever, and expectedly...

Sam Kissajukian’s “Three Hundred Paintings,” Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025

Posted by Margaret Rose | 19th Aug 2025 | Australia, Edinburgh 2025, Review, United Kingdom

Summerhall, one of Edinburgh’s busiest venues, known for its innovative, cutting-edge programme,...

Mark St Germain’s “Dancing Lessons” At Boulevard Münster In The Context Of The Ongoing Comedy Theatre Tradition In Germany

Posted by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe | 28th Jul 2025 | Germany, Management, Review

Germany’s theatre landscape is very rich indeed. Many cities have publicly owned and funded...

Adelaide Cabaret Festival Understands How Its Audiences Long For Connection and Community

Posted by Catherine Campbell | 10th Jul 2024 | Australia, Festivals, Review

Now in its 24th year, the Adelaide Cabaret Festival’s annual celebration of all things cabaret...

“My Father’s Fable,” Bush Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 25th Jun 2024 | Nigeria, Review, United Kingdom

Following the huge success of Benedict Lombe’s Shifters, which transfers soon to the West End, the...

“The Harmony Test,” Hampstead Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 27th May 2024 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender

“Welcome to motherhood, bitch!” By the time a character delivers this reality check, there have...

“London Zoo,” Southwark Playhouse

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 19th Mar 2024 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom

Before the internet, newspapers were central to the national conversation in Britain. By the first...

David Ireland’s “Ulster American” at the Riverside Studios

Posted by Mert Dilek | 17th Dec 2023 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom

An American actor, an English director, and a Northern Irish playwright walk into a house in...

Venus and Adonis: this “play within a plague” about Shakespeare is wildly romantic, erotic and colorful

Posted by Kirk Dodd | 5th Nov 2023 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Gender

Shakespeare wrote his famous narrative poem Venus and Adonis in a lockdown era when, in 1593, the...

The Tony Blair Rock Opera Features Bagpipes, Lady Macbeth and a Wrestling Match With Gordon Brown

Posted by Tim Bale | 15th Oct 2023 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom

If you’re looking for subtlety and sophistication, Harry Hill and Steve Brown’s Tony! The Tony...

“The Winter’s Tale” Review: Jarring Shakespeare’s Globe Production Lacks Warmth

Posted by Penelope Woods | 11th Apr 2023 | London, Review, United Kingdom

The Winter’s Tale is one of Shakespeare’s great “hospitality plays” — a tragicomedy about what...

Friendship And Its Discontents: Juan Mayorga’s “Amistad”

Posted by Maria Delgado | 1st Mar 2023 | Playwriting, Review, Spain

Juan Mayorga, one of Spain’s most decorated dramatists — a member of Spain’s Spanish Royal Academy...

Unjust Laughter: Representations of Equity-Deserving Groups in Contemporary Iraqi Comedy

Posted by Amir Al-Azraki | 8th Jan 2023 | Essay, Iraq, Theatre and Politics

Introduction The ongoing unsettling shift of my identity from a “white” Iraqi back home (in Iraq)...

Legendary Actor Péter Haumann Dies at 81

Posted by Júlia Tar | 6th Jul 2022 | Acting, Hungary, News

Péter Haumann, a Kossuth and Jászai Mari Prize-winning actor, a full member of the Hungarian...

Gilbert Gottfried and the Mechanics of Crafting One of the Most Memorable Voices of All Time

Posted by Erica Tobolski | 10th Jun 2022 | Acting, Essay, Transmedia, United States of America

Though Gilbert Gottfried’s voice has alternatively been described as “shrill,” “annoying” and...

Fresh “Ham” at the Public

Posted by Jack Wernick | 7th Jun 2022 | Adaptation, Review, Theatre and Decolonization, United States of America

Fat Ham arrives at the Public Theater for its first live production following the Zoom staging by...

“Peggy For You,” Hampstead Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 2nd Feb 2022 | Directing, London, Management, Review, United Kingdom

Peggy Ramsay is a theater legend. Around the time of her death in 1991, the Australian-born agent...

Kenya’s New Theatre Awards

Posted by Alexander Nderitu | 22nd Sep 2021 | Festivals, Kenya, News

The Kenya Theatre Awards seek to fill these two gaps by tracking and watching all performances in the country and providing data and statistics on the number of venues, performances staged, people watching performances in the country. This will be achieved by the Jury and technical team of the Awards who will work in partnership with theatre venues, producers and theatre companies.