Thorsten Lensing takes years between shows; Ewelina Marciniak puts on several each season. Both theater makers are presenting new work in Austria.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:54AMWorks that once horrified European audiences are now centerpieces of the drama offerings at the tony Austrian festival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:42AMThe Radikal Jung festival transports theatergoers to Russia’s 2014 invasion of eastern Ukraine and an American high school in the Middle Ages.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:36AMA theatrical reworking of Wagner’s “Ring” and a feminist revision of some Greek classics show how ancient legends can illuminate contemporary obsessions.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:42AMBold takes on classic works defined theater in Germany for decades. But many playhouses are turning to new works by international dramatists.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:18AMKirill Serebrennikov is living under a three-year travel ban, but to his surprise, Russian authorities approved his request to direct a play in Hamburg.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:06AMRené Pollesch is the fourth boss of the Volksbühne in four years. The Berlin theater is pinning hopes of a return to its former vibrancy on his collaborative approach.
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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.
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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.
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