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On The Other Side Of “Ant Street”: An Interview With Theatre Director Oliver Micevski

Posted by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar | 17th Aug 2019 | Directing, Hungary, Interview, Macedonia, Transcultural Collaborations

Oliver Micevski (b. Skopje, Macedonia, 1980) is one of the most creative and intelligently...

Edinburgh Fringe 2019: “Are We Not Drawn Onward to New Era” at Zoo Southside

Posted by Duška Radosavljević | 16th Aug 2019 | Belgium, Edinburgh 2019, Festivals, Immersive Theatre, Review, United Kingdom

Since their first understated but instantly successful visit to Edinburgh in 2008 with their...

Force Decisions: A Citizen’s Guide to How Police Determine Appropriate Use of Force by Rory Miller – A Book Review from a Fightaturgy Perspective

Posted by Meron Langsner | 14th Aug 2019 | Books, Dramaturgy, Stage Combat

I have written elsewhere on recommended reading for early-career fight directors, and I would like...

Translating Shakespeare

Posted by Alexa Huang | 12th Jul 2019 | Dramaturgy, Japan, Playwriting, Translation

Translation of Shakespeare’s works is almost as old as Shakespeare himself; the first German...

“There Is More Future Than Past” And “A Room of One’s Own”: Documentary Play About Latin American Women Artists

Posted by Clarisse Zarvos | 12th May 2019 | Brazil, Documentary Theatre, Portugal, Review, Theatre and Decolonization, Theatre and Gender

In the early twentieth century, Virginia Woolf published the essay Room of One’s Own, based...

Intermediality In The Advanced Dramatic Readings In Belarusian Theatre

Posted by Alexander Mantush | 5th May 2019 | Belarus, Essay, Transmedia

Belarusian theatre is not well-known abroad because of a certain cultural isolation. Several local...

Any One Thing’s “Recollection”: Breaking The Threshold Of Immersive Theatre

Posted by Aida Rocci | 31st Mar 2019 | Immersive Theatre, London, Participatory Theatre, Review, United Kingdom

Recollection takes up to six participants in a thrilling journey about the importance of memories and personal data. Going beyond the sensational premise, the budding Any One Thing ambitiously explores the ideas of ‘personalized’ and ‘immersive’ theatre in depth, taking the genre to the boundaries of what is real.

ASSITEJ SA Announces 2019 Playwriting Contest Winner

Posted by Alexander Nderitu | 30th Mar 2019 | News, Playwriting, South Africa

Each playwright on the shortlist was paired with an expert from the international ASSITEJ network of professionals for online mentoring, coaching, and dramaturgy.

Brecht In Exile: “Galileo” In Brooklyn

Posted by Jack Wernick | 1st Mar 2019 | Adaptation, Germany, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

New York’s Irondale Project presents a scrupulously faithful production of Brecht’s The Life Of...

Sunandha Raghunathan’s “Bad Hindu” Is Caught Between Two Worlds

Posted by Gowri S | 11th Dec 2018 | Directing, India, Interview

“I still remember, I was down with chicken pox and my mom would tell me stories. But, The...

Dramaturging Performance, Pedagogy, and Protest in Boston, ATHE 2018

Posted by Walter Byongsok Chon | 16th Sep 2018 | Boston, Dramaturgy, Essay, United States of America

Since my own “debut” in the 2011 Dramaturgy Debut Panel with my dramaturgy work on Yale Repertory...

Examining “Tommy” Through a Neurodiverse Lens

Posted by Jonathan Meth | 1st Mar 2018 | Review, Theatre and Disability, United Kingdom

Ramps on the Moon’s adaptation of Pete Townsend’s 1969 concept album ‘Tommy’, toured the UK...

Dance Dramaturgy and The Art That Moves: Lim How Ngean

Posted by Arts Equator | 19th Feb 2018 | Australia, Interview, Theatre and Dance

Art that Moves is an occasional series where we ask artists and other creative workers to reflect...

Can You Hear Me Now? Dramaturgy: Speaking With Many Voices

Posted by Taylor L. Ciambra | 16th Feb 2018 | Dramaturgy, Interview, United States of America

When describing the role of a dramaturg Dr. Philippa Kelly says this: “I see a dramaturg’s shadow...

“The Grift”: Theatre or Escape Room?

Posted by Aida Rocci | 1st Feb 2018 | Dramaturgy, Immersive Theatre, London, Review, United Kingdom

Theatre as a concept is related to the idea of “play.” After all, scripts are plays...

The New Play Dramaturgy in Russia

Posted by Pavel Rudnev | 25th Jan 2018 | Dramaturgy, Essay, Russia, Russian Theatre - Featured

The movement for the renewal of the repertoire and new playwriting in Russia is hardly more than...

Performance Research/Performance Practice-ASAP Event, UvA

Posted by Christopher Harris | 13th Dec 2017 | Dramaturgy, Netherlands, News, Transcultural Collaborations

ASAP is a new initiative of both staff members and students from the Theatre Studies department at the UvA in order to create space for exchange within and around the department of Theatre Studies.

Amsterdam’s Symposium On Cultural Translation

Posted by Christopher Harris | 21st Oct 2017 | Dramaturgy, Netherlands, Transcultural Collaborations, Translation

Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum asserted itself as the watering hole for a universal collective of people congregating on the subject of cultural translation within a dramaturgical framework, which alone begins as a intriguing idea, given that the collective arrived out of the rain from many corners of the globe.