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Nick Payne’s “The Unbelievers” at the Royal Court Theatre: Latest Play By A Top New Writer Is Disappointingly Unfocused

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 26th Oct 2025 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom

The Royal Court, Britain’s premiere new writing venue, celebrates its platinum anniversary next...

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...

“Aether”, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025

Posted by Duška Radosavljević | 24th Aug 2025 | Edinburgh 2025, Festivals, Review, United Kingdom

Emma Howlett’s Aether arrives with impressive academic credentials—consultations with...

Duncan Macmillan’s Every Brilliant Thing at @Sohoplace: Moving Mixture Of Joyous Theatricality And Serious Mental Health Themes

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 23rd Aug 2025 | Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom

Slowly, very slowly, the audience begins to arrive. Taking their seats, shedding jackets,...

Mark Rosenblatt’s “Giant” in Barcelona

Posted by Maria Delgado | 5th Aug 2025 | Festivals, Review, Spain

The first new production of Mark Rosenblatt’s Olivier-award-winning Giant since its London...

Julia Grogan’s Playfight at the Soho Theatre: Superbly Punchy Teen Drama That Electrifies The Senses And Engages The Emotions

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 15th Apr 2025 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, Review, United Kingdom

Coming of age stories are more or less all the same. But what distinguishes Julia Grogan’s...

“Lie Low,” Royal Court

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 2nd Jun 2024 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics

Faye is okay. Or, at least she says she’s okay. But is she really? And, if she really is okay,...

“Between Riverside And Crazy,” Hampstead Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 25th May 2024 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics

It’s often said that contemporary American playwrights are too polite, too afraid of giving...

Anything Can Be Bought If The Price Is Right: Juan Mayorga’s “La Colección” (The Collection)

Posted by Maria Delgado | 12th Apr 2024 | Review, Spain

Juan Mayorga might have been a crime writer in another life, he loves to set up complex, menacing...

Marilyn Monroe – The Family Babysitter: Luke Yankee and the Creation of “Marilyn, Mom & Me”

Posted by Colden Lamb | 16th Jan 2024 | Interview, Los Angeles, Playwriting, United States of America

This February, International City Theatre will present the world premiere of a new play, Marilyn,...

Roxy Cook’s A Woman Walks into a Bank at Theatre 503: Sublimely Beguiling Account of Everyday Life in Twenty-First Century Moscow

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 7th Dec 2023 | Playwriting, Review, Russia, Theatre and Age, United Kingdom

The recent news that Russia’s Supreme Court has banned the “international LGBT movement”,...

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...

“Bacon” at the Finborough Theatre

Posted by Konrad Zielinski | 15th Apr 2022 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom

Engaging with narratives that draw on the subject of male queerness can be precarious. Two major...

2021 Flying Start For Human Rights Art Festival

Posted by Alexander Nderitu | 13th Jan 2021 | Festivals, New York, News, Theatre and Art, United States of America

First of the block is ‘Human Freedom 2021- A Theater for Human Rights Campaign’. This initiative is spearheaded by newly-appointed 2021 IHRAF International Fellow, Alessandro Lenzi. It is organized through a global collaboration between Raizes Teatro (Palermo), International Human Rights Art Festival (NYC), Avant – Garde Lawyers (Paris), and Global Campus of Human Rights (Venice). Alessandro Lenzi is the Director of Raizes Teatro. The Last Era, a play written by Alessandro Ienzi will be one of the features of the campaign.