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“Three Sisters” at The Almeida Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 14th May 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom

About a year ago, director Rebecca Frecknall electrified this venue with an award-winning revival...

David Herskovits’ “Marjana And The Forty Thieves”

Posted by Abigail Weil | 31st Mar 2019 | Adaptation, New York, Review, United States of America

You know The Thousand And One Nights both better and worse than you realize. You may know it by a...

“El Coronel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba” At Harlem Stage

Posted by Abigail Weil | 30th Mar 2019 | Adaptation, New York, Review, United States of America

Creating riveting theater out of the problem of a bureaucratic oversight is no easy feat. Luckily...

French Playwright Florian Zeller’s “The Son” at The Kiln Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 9th Mar 2019 | France, London, Review, United Kingdom

Well, you have to hand it to French playwright Florian Zeller — he’s certainly cracked the problem...

Meshuggah, Nein? “Fiddler” In Yiddish

Posted by Abigail Weil | 24th Feb 2019 | Musical Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America

In 2004, Gwen Stefani, lately of the band No Doubt, released a song called Rich Girl which sampled...

Shakespeare In South African Schools: To Die, To Sleep–Or Perchance To Dream?

Posted by Chris Thurman | 30th Dec 2018 | Interview, South Africa, Theatre and Decolonization

South Africa’s education authorities are reviewing the school curriculum. Basic Education Minister...

A Room Of One’s Own: A Theatre Translator In Residence

Posted by William Gregory | 30th Nov 2018 | News, Spain, Translation

In October 2018, Theatre Times translation editor William Gregory became the inaugural translator...

‘Les Incorrigibles’: The Publishing House Championing Spanish Theatre in France

Posted by William Gregory | 16th Jan 2018 | France, News, Playwriting, Spain, Translation

Despite Spain being a near neighbor, Spanish theatre has enjoyed relatively little exposure in...

How a Bunch of Americans Preserved a Dying Chinese Tradition

Posted by Li Mingjie | 12th Jan 2018 | China, Essay, Puppetry

The art of shadow puppetry spent much of the 20th century in decline in China, but over in the US,...

The Serendipitous Path of a U.S.-Russia Theatre Ambassador: An Interview with John Freedman

Posted by Yan Chen | 30th Nov 2017 | Interview, Russia, Russian Theatre - Featured, Transcultural Collaborations

John Freedman was Theatre Critic at The Moscow Times from 1992 to 2015 and is currently Assistant...

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.