Friday Essay: 50 Shades Of Shakespeare–How The Bard Sexed Things Up
It’s hard to imagine a more literary or successful author than William Shakespeare, formerly...
Read MorePosted by Stuart Kells | 2nd Dec 2018 | Australia, Essay
It’s hard to imagine a more literary or successful author than William Shakespeare, formerly...
Read MorePosted by Valdas Vasiliauskas | 27th May 2018 | Directing, Essay, Lithuania, Playwriting
Eimuntas Nekrošius and Lithuania’s Youth Theatre May 2018 marks thirty years since an event of...
Read MorePosted by The Theatre Times | 28th Apr 2018 | Festivals, Japan, News, Transcultural Collaborations
World Theatre Festival Shizuoka 2018 Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) will hold its annual...
Read MorePosted by Alexa Alice Joubin | 18th Apr 2018 | Adaptation, Essay, Translation, Worldwide
In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, when Peter Quince sees Bottom turned into an ass-headed figure, he...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 10th Apr 2018 | Essay, Immersive Theatre, India, Musical Theatre, Theatre and Dance, Theatre and Disability
Rather than experimental theatre, it is the realm of dance works that is considered to be much...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 24th Feb 2018 | Immersive Theatre, London, Review
“Two things only the people anxiously desire—bread and circuses,” said the Roman poet Juvenal. He...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 8th Feb 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Playwright Alan Ayckbourn basically comes in two flavors: suburban comedies of embarrassment and...
Read MorePosted by Nick Rongjun Yu | 25th Oct 2017 | China, Essay, Festivals, Transcultural Collaborations, United Kingdom
In August, the stage play, The Dreamer was performed for enthusiastic audiences at the Pleasance...
Read MorePosted by Jyotsna G. Singh | 5th Jul 2017 | New York, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
“All the world’s a stage,” Shakespeare once wrote. In recent weeks, that Shakespearean adage has...
Read MorePosted by Eric Rasmussen | 11th Dec 2014 | Essay, United Kingdom
The Shakespeare First Folio (1623), the first collected edition of his plays and the sole source...
Read MorePosted by Agnieszka Kochanowska | 21st Jun 2012 | Festivals, Poland, Review, Theatre and Politics
This year, the plays staged at the festival spoke about distrust of authority and suspicion of the...
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