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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:54AMMunich 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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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:32PMAt Berlin’s FIND festival of new international drama, some plays tackle big themes while others reject being useful.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:12PMFour interpretations of the Greek myth have been produced in the German capital, all with resonances for our moment.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:42AMThe Salzburg Festival and the Ruhrtriennale host a series of theatrical pieces, both old and new, that seem to reflect our troubled time.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18AMDon’t expect bowler hats and dirty negligees in a new production at the Berliner Ensemble, the theater Bertolt Brecht founded.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:12AMThe theater offering at the Alpine festival features reworked classics by Shakespeare and one of the event’s founders.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:42AMAt newly reopened playhouses, once-legendary and younger directors take very different approaches to their mammoth productions.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:03AMA German playhouse realizes it’s no longer competing merely against other local venues for audience attention.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:12AMThe 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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:42AMThe 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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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:54AMThe 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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:18PMThe show must go on, despite a second lockdown, with livestreamed premieres and recent recordings.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:48AMA second lockdown has put productions on hold and added extra drama to an already fraught theater season.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:54AMThe 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…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMPeter 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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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:48AMIn 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…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18AMIf 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…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:12AMThe 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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:03AMThe recorded performances that theaters in Germany have put online while they are closed don’t live up to the real thing, our critic says.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:36AMThe 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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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:33AMUnder a new artistic director, this season at Austria’s main playhouse includes 30 premieres, ranging from classical dramas to brand-new works.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:48AMTwo Berlin productions find different types of comedy in the great 17th-century playwright’s works.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:54AMStage productions of “Anna Karenina” and “Don Quixote” turn sprawling novels into gripping theater.
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