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V4 Improv Connect: Empowering Cross-Border Collaboration And Growth (Project And Network) [Part I]

Posted by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar | 2nd Feb 2025 | Acting, Interview, Transcultural Collaborations

Collective Interview with V4 Improv Connect Team (Hon Chong (actor, director – Slovakia),...

EXÓTICA by Amanda Piña

Posted by Eylül Fidan Akıncı | 20th Jun 2023 | Belgium, LGBTQ+ Theatre, Review, Theatre and Dance

A transpersonal and transcultural desire to dance together EXÓTICA is a journey that sets off even...

Whole New World: Indian-American Actors Proud in “Aladdin” Play

Posted by Associated Press | 22nd Nov 2021 | Musical Theatre, New York, News, United States of America

Diversity in film is important, but in animation, it carries an even heavier, different message....

New Deal for Broadway: NYC Theater Luminaries Agree on Reforms

Posted by Associated Press | 23rd Sep 2021 | New York, News, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

Following a summit of industry leaders organized by Black Theatre United earlier this year, a...

“Six Men for Every Four Women”: Gender Inequalities in Theatre Programming Revealed in New Cross-Europe Study

Posted by European Theater Convention Board | 29th Apr 2021 | Europe, News, Theatre and Gender

Men continue to outnumber women and hold the most prestigious positions in theatre programmes, a...

Theatre Shows How The Art of Inclusion Can Help Build a Better Canada in 2021

Posted by Taiwo Afolabi | 8th Jan 2021 | Canada, News, Transcultural Collaborations

As we bid the pandemic year goodbye and herald the new year, it’s worth asking about the kind of...

Winners Demand More Gender Parity, Representation, and Diversity at 2019 Tony Awards

Posted by Holly Rosen Fink | 14th Jun 2019 | New York, News, Theatre and Disability, Theatre and Gender, United States of America, Women on Broadway and Beyond

When Rachel Chavkin walked into the Tony Awards media room, she continued the conversation she had...

“As You Like It”at The Oregon Shakespeare Festival

Posted by Taylor L. Ciambra | 11th Jun 2019 | Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America

To take the title of dramaturg Amrita Ramanan’s program note, As You Like It is “a comedy that...

“Hairspray” at The Oregon Shakespeare Festival

Posted by Taylor L. Ciambra | 10th Jun 2019 | Musical Theatre, Review, United States of America

John Waters called Hairspray “the only radical movie I ever made” (from Dawn Monique Williams’s...

Encouraging New Voices In Theatre Criticism

Posted by Jamie Potter | 30th Apr 2019 | Essay, United Kingdom

This series of articles, commissioned together with HowlRound in the framework of IETM Hull,...

Escaping The Imaginary Of Engaged Arts

Posted by Goran Toka | 29th Apr 2019 | Essay, Europe, Participatory Theatre

This series of articles, commissioned together with HowlRound in the framework of IETM Hull,...

Rethinking The Purpose Of British Arts Institutions

Posted by Lyn Gardner | 21st Apr 2019 | Essay, London, Participatory Theatre, United Kingdom

You can read this article in French here. This series of articles, commissioned together...

Creating Opportunities For “Inclusive Dance” With Stopgap Dance Company

Posted by Nobuko Tanaka | 8th Mar 2019 | Japan, Review, Theatre and Disability, United Kingdom

“I believe people with almost any kind of physique can do contemporary dance. Yet though...

“Ajijaak On Turtle Island”: New York Stories Old And New

Posted by Abigail Weil | 6th Mar 2019 | New York, Puppetry, Review, Theatre for Young Audiences, Transcultural Collaborations, United States of America

On a recent Sunday afternoon, at the New Victory Theater, timelines collided. The New Vic, founded...

Zimbabwean Theatre Culture “Emerging” From The Shadows

Posted by Alexander Nderitu | 21st Feb 2019 | Festivals, News, Zimbabwe

One of the first indications of the change in political temperatures was the production of the hilarious stage play ‘Operation Restore Legacy’ which re-imagines the military takeover in Harare that ended one of Africa’s longest and most controversial presidential tenures.