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“Leili And Majnun:” An Ancient Love Story For Modern Times

Posted by L. Peter Callender | 3rd Jan 2026 | Iran, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

We all know the iconic closing lines: “For never was a story of more woe / Than this of...

Evil Can Appear Beautiful

Posted by Margaret Rose | 23rd Nov 2025 | Adaptation, Italy, Review

Two major productions of Richard III are touring Italy in the present season, a sign perhaps that...

Shakespeare In The Park At The New Delacorte Theater: Love Is Gender Fluid

Posted by Cristina Modreanu | 30th Aug 2025 | New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

In a world where the rule is to make huge efforts to attain an “effortless, relaxed” look, the new...

29th International Shakespeare Festival runs in Gdańsk (Poland) from 25 July to 3 August

Posted by Kasia Lech | 10th Jul 2025 | Festivals, News, Poland

Seventeen productions, including nine premieres, from Japan, Ukraine, the UK, Spain, and Poland,...

“Hamlet”, Teatro La Plaza, Barbican

Posted by Duška Radosavljević | 15th May 2025 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom

’To be or not to be’, that is a question with a completely new ring to it in Teatro La Plaza’s...

Catharsis in the Eleventh Row: The Aesthetics of Truth on Stage and an Audience That Is Not Afraid of the Dark

Posted by Emilija Kvočka | 14th May 2025 | Essay, Festivals, Serbia

The time of frozen catharsis is now. But what kind of theatre refuses purification? Theatre...

Theatre “Haunts” People

Posted by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar | 26th Mar 2025 | Festivals, Interview, Playwriting, Romania

An Interview with Mr. Horia Gârbea – Playwright, dramaturg, translator, Bucaresti, Romania Horia...

“Malvolio’s Fantasy.” A Glitzy Retelling Of Twelfth Night

Posted by Margaret Rose | 31st Aug 2024 | Adaptation, Edinburgh 2024, Review, Scotland

A cast of young actors from diverse parts of the globe brought Malvolio’s Fantasy to the Space...

Climate Change Shakespeare. “A Midsummer’s Tempest”

Posted by Margaret Rose | 18th Aug 2024 | Edinburgh 2024, Festivals, Review, United Kingdom

On this year’s Edinburgh Fringe a raft of reimaginings of Shakespeare’s plays, by emerging and...

Scottish Nursery School Kids Bring A Comedic Shakespeare To The Fringe

Posted by Margaret Rose | 16th Aug 2024 | Edinburgh 2024, Festivals, Review, United Kingdom

A unique feature of Edinburgh’s Fringe festival is its inclusive nature. Professional and...

“Hamstrung.” Yorick’s Untold Story

Posted by Margaret Rose | 14th Aug 2024 | Edinburgh 2024, Festivals, Review, United Kingdom

Hamlet, along with A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest and Macbeth, are probably the...

52nd Venice Theatre Biennale (15-30 June). Tim Crouch’s “Truth’s A Dog Must To Kennel”

Posted by Margaret Rose | 18th Jul 2024 | Dramaturgy, Festivals, Italy, Review

After Brexit, UK productions very rarely play in Italy, but Biennale theatre directors Gianni...

“Macbeth” at the Donmar Warehouse

Posted by Mert Dilek | 20th Dec 2023 | London, Review, United Kingdom

How to render Macbeth anew—and how to do it well? It’s a question that has undoubtedly preoccupied...

Prison Shakespeare at Milan’s Young Offenders Institute

Posted by Margaret Rose | 1st Dec 2023 | Essay, Italy, Theatre and Age

Since 2015 my theatre studies colleague, Cristina Cavecchi, and I have been leading Shakespeare...

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...

“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players” at Shakespeare Festival in Serbia

Posted by Emilija Kvočka | 5th Sep 2023 | Festivals, Review, Serbia

The tenth in a row international theatre festival “Shakespeare Festival”, whose...

Shakespeare’s First Folio Turns 400: What Would Be Lost Without the Collection? An Expert Speculates

Posted by Emma Smith | 5th May 2023 | Dramaturgy, Essay, United Kingdom

It has been 400 years since the publication of the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays,...

“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...

Arden of Faversham: A True Crime Thriller

Posted by Clare Cioffero | 10th Apr 2023 | Acting, New York, Review, United States of America

A small boat sails the stage while a trap door serves as the river depths for one of the characters to sink beneath the waves. And as the story reaches its inevitable conclusion, a snowstorm complete with snow drifts – an element taken directly from the origin story of Arden.