Friday, November 12, 2021
With a Black-led production of Shakespeare’s play, an Austrian theater hopes to jump-start a conversation about racism and the need for diversity on the country’s stages.
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Munich is throwing off a provincial reputation to become a global cultural powerhouse. Yet tensions between local and cosmopolitan impulses in the city’s playhouses remain.
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The American playwright’s first new play since he parted ways with his theater in 2018 during the #MeToo movement finds a stage far from New York.
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At Berlin’s FIND festival of new international drama, some plays tackle big themes while others reject being useful.
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Four interpretations of the Greek myth have been produced in the German capital, all with resonances for our moment.
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The Salzburg Festival and the Ruhrtriennale host a series of theatrical pieces, both old and new, that seem to reflect our troubled time.
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Don’t expect bowler hats and dirty negligees in a new production at the Berliner Ensemble, the theater Bertolt Brecht founded.
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The theater offering at the Alpine festival features reworked classics by Shakespeare and one of the event’s founders.
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At newly reopened playhouses, once-legendary and younger directors take very different approaches to their mammoth productions.
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A German playhouse realizes it’s no longer competing merely against other local venues for audience attention.
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The drama behind the scenes at the Volksbühne in Berlin has surpassed any onstage. A series of premieres involving vengeful gods, inescapable fates and tragic flaws seems apt.
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The directors of the Brecht Festival Augsburg have curated an online-only event that runs the gamut from experimental films to poetry slams and puppetry.
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Thursday, January 28, 2021
The Lessingtage theater festival, held online this year because of the pandemic, shows some of Europe’s finest performers, in classic plays by Brecht, Schiller, Ibsen and others.
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Thursday, November 12, 2020
A second lockdown has put productions on hold and added extra drama to an already fraught theater season.
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Barbara Mundel takes over as artistic director of the Münchner Kammerspiele, lately perhaps the most consistently exciting playhouse in Germany.
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Some of the city’s major playhouses are presenting pandemic-delayed premieres in sparsely populated auditoriums, with much of the seating removed.
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The pseudo-medieval morality tale “Jedermann” inaugurated the first Salzburg Festival with an outdoor performance in 1920. The world premiere of “Everywoman” expands the concept beyo…
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Peter Handke’s “Zdenek Adamec” imagines the psychological motivations of a young man who hoped to change the world by setting himself on fire, but whose name is now hardly known.
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Thursday, June 11, 2020
A German theater has created a walk-through performance that works with social distancing and hygiene measures to result in a new kind of aesthetic experience.
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In an artistic world that constantly deconstructs itself, the creators of “The Plague” and “Dekalog” turned toward digital tools, with self-filmed actors and direction from the audie…
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If this year’s Theatertreffen had gone ahead, it would have featured more women-led productions than ever before. Instead, an online version of the German festival features an even greater…
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The Belarus Free Theater had ambitious plans for its anniversary. The coronavirus stopped them, but the troupe is used to finding ways to keep going in tough times.
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The recorded performances that theaters in Germany have put online while they are closed don’t live up to the real thing, our critic says.
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The Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov is free from house arrest but isn’t allowed to leave Moscow. So actors from a Berlin theater went there to create his latest work.
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An avant-garde Berlin director has sold out a 2,000-seat venue that usually draws crowds with death-defying acrobatics or rousing musical numbers.
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Under a new artistic director, this season at Austria’s main playhouse includes 30 premieres, ranging from classical dramas to brand-new works.
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