Wednesday, March 12, 2025

“The Pillars of the Earth”: The Evolution of Spanish Musical Theatre. An exclusive interview with Iván Macías. Part I by Lisa Monde

In November 2024, the world premiere of a new musical by composer Iván Macías, The Pillars of the Earth, took place at the Teatro EDP Gran Vía in Madrid. The book, written by Félix Ama…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:30AM
Monday, March 10, 2025

An Innovative “Romeo E Giulietta” In Milan by Margaret Rose

In February I caught Antonio Syxty’s staging of Romeo e Giulietta (Romeo and Juliet) at Milan’s Leonardo Theatre in a production by Manifatture Teatrali Milanesi. Syxty’s interpretat…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:24AM
Saturday, March 8, 2025

Woman Is A Changeling: Redefining Femininity In “Maiden Mother Crone” by Emily Cordes

But a woman is a changeling, always shifting shape Just when you think you have it figured out Something new begins to take …I am no mother, I am no bride, I am King. – Florence + The Ma…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:24AM
Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Nick Payne’s One Day When We Were Young at Park Theatre: Time-Hopping Love Story Is Restrained By The Slenderness of the Plot by Aleks Sierz

How long would you wait for your soulmate? In “The Demon Lover”, a short story by Elizabeth Bowen, published in 1945, a young couple make a passionate vow during the first world war. Whe…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:44AM

Victor’s Journey by Margaret Rose

Rarely have I spent such an intense ninety minutes watching a show, as I did the other evening at Milan’s Franco Parenti theatre. From start to finish French dramatist Nicolas Bedos’s Le…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:44AM
Tuesday, March 4, 2025

The Showcase Is To Feed From Academic Research And Knowledge, But It Is Hands-On Job Rather Than Dry Research by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar

Interview with Handan Salta – co-founder of the Istanbul Theatre Showcase – TheatreIST, theatre critic, literary translator. Handan Salta is a freelance critic and translator. She taught…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:55AM

2024 Dublin Theatre Festival – Subjective Report [Part II] by Michał Lachman

To read PART I of this report, go to this link.   The line of Irish productions at 2024 Dublin Theatre Festival provoked questions about how to make theatre relevant to contemporary audienc…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:51AM

2024 Dublin Theatre Festival – Subjective Report [Part I] by Michał Lachman

My carefully planned visit to the 2024 Dublin Theatre Festival started and ended in unexpected events. On the day of arrival, ten minutes after leaving the hotel, I was engulfed by crowds of…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 06:51AM
Monday, March 3, 2025

Bridging Worlds: Bahram Beyzaie’s “Naqqali Trilogy” Wins The 2024 ASTR Translation Award Prize by Diana Fathi

In November, the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) awarded the 2024 Translation Prize to Bahram Beyzaie’s Naqqali Trilogy, translated into English for the first time by Nikta Sa…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:50AM

Review Of “Bernarda Albas Haus,” Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Première 2 November 2024. by Geraldine Brodie

Interpretations in cultures and languages external to Spain have been integral to the survival of La casa de Bernarda Alba since its composition in 1936. Federico García Lorca was executed …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:50AM
Sunday, March 2, 2025

Giuliana Musso Performs Franz Kafka’s “The Ape” by Margaret Rose

In his short story, A Report to an Academy, written and published in 1917, Franz Kafka imagines that an ape, called Red Peter, who has turned human, addresses an academy of academics and sc…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:50AM
Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Coral Wylie’s Lavender, Hyacinth, Violet, Yew at the Bush Theatre: Tender And Original Debut About The Black Queer Experience by Aleks Sierz

Diaries are dynamite — they hold secrets, and secrets can tear families apart. In Coral Wylie’s debut, Lavender, Hyacinth, Violet, Yew, currently at the Bush Theatre, written records are…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 06:10AM
Friday, February 21, 2025

Laura Horton’s Lynn Faces at the New Diorama Theatre: Surreal Gig Theatre Event Explores Coercive Control Through Comedy by Aleks Sierz

British people are socially awkward: this explains why we talk about the weather, queue compulsively and pretend to be polite. It is also at the heart of our television culture, anything fro…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:19AM

Beyond the Canvas: The Art of Candida Alvarez by Alexander Fatouros

A leading figure in contemporary art, Candida Alvarez is an American painter and studio artist renowned for her dynamic use of color and bold experimentation. Her vibrant works seamlessly bl…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:00AM
Monday, February 17, 2025

Polish-American Migrant Theatre: Teatr NASZ From Chicago On Tour In Florida by Aleksandra M. Różalska

As of 2023, Polish Americans amounted to over eight million people, i.e., 2.46% of the US population according to the US Census Bureau[1][Polish-American Heritage Month: October 2023, https:…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:41PM
Sunday, February 16, 2025

Language Is Leaving Me: A Cinematic AI Opera Of The Skin [Part II] by Ellen Pearlman

Ellen Pearlman interviewed by Ivo Marais To read PART I of this interview, go to this link.   I: Visual AI is at the heart of this piece, almost like a performer itself. How did you envisio…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:42PM
Saturday, February 15, 2025

“Language Is Leaving Me: A Cinematic AI Opera Of The Skin” [Part I] by Ellen Pearlman

Ellen Pearlman interviewed by Ivo Marais   Ivo: These questions are crafted to reflect the solemnity of the AI biometric cinematic opera “Language Is Leaving Me” with its themes of epig…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:41PM
Friday, February 14, 2025

Playwriting Awards in Taiwan: Recognition and Reality by Kuan-Ting Lin

Playwriting awards have always been a promised land for playwrights. For emerging storytellers, being awarded is like being recognized not only as an enthusiast but as a professional; for es…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:56AM
Thursday, February 13, 2025

Show/Boat: A River Slashes Open an Old Classic by Morgan Skolnik

“The singing is nice, but the staging is atrocious.” So remarked the couple sitting behind me at Target Margin’s production of Show/Boat: A River before walking out during intermission…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:52AM

The Horror of Mundanity in NYTW’s A Knock On the Roof by Morgan Skolnik

Any frequent theater-goer is likely familiar with the “two block rule”, a piece of etiquette that states that one should refrain from discussing a show until they are at least two blocks…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:29AM
Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Dropping Balms by Jonathan Kalb

With the United States now governed by swaggering, ignorant bigots spewing xenophobic venom, militarizing the border, and terrorizing any insufficiently White person hoping to come or stay, …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:47PM

Culture Belongs To Humanity! Not To The Armies by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar

An Interview with Bouboulina Nikaki, Thessaloniki-Athens, Greece – International theatre festival`s expert, theatre critic, literary translator and program advisor; founder/editor of the p…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:14AM
Monday, February 10, 2025

Eline Arbo’s The Years At The Harold Pinter Theatre: Nobel Prize Winner Annie Ernaux’s Book Gets A Problematic West-End Staging by Aleks Sierz

Marketing is the new real. For many years, in theatre as elsewhere in society, the most important thing is not creativity, or originality, or integrity, but hype. A good example is The Years…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:19AM
Sunday, February 9, 2025

Getting Known by Jonathan Kalb

Beckett Briefs is a great title for a program of short plays by Ireland’s most famously laconic writer. Those who take it literally can feel assured the evening won’t be a slog (the whol…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:47PM
Friday, February 7, 2025

Тim Rice – 80: The Нero and His Many Anniversaries. Part II by Lisa Monde

The first part of this interview is available here. Tim Rice has been lucky to work with many talented composers and musicians throughout his long creative life. In addition to Andrew Lloyd …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:02PM

From Lawer to Lyricist/Librettist: An Artist Profile of Jill Ohayon by Morgan Skolnik

Jill Ohayon grew up believing there were only two respectable career paths: doctor or lawyer. And so she chose the latter and carried on with her life… but musical theater kept calling.  …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:04PM
Thursday, February 6, 2025

A Dystopian Sci-Fi: “Honey, I’m Home” by Berna Ataoğlu

Factory Theatre, renowned for showcasing the latest works from Canada’s alternative and political theatre troupes, hosted Honey I’m Home as part of its 2024 season. This Lester Trips (Th…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:01PM
Wednesday, February 5, 2025

There Is Nothing To Know About The Theatre, There Is Everything To Discover About Theatre by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar

An Interview with playwright, dramaturg and director – Simona Semenic (Ljubljana, Slovenia) Simona Semenic is one of the most important, most prolific female – feminist playwrights, dire…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:01PM
Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Lucy Kirkwood’s “The Welkin” (“Empireo”) In Milan by Margaret Rose

Some of the outstanding works by British playwright Lucy Kirkwood are finally being staged in Italy, with productions of The Children and The Welkin currently showing in major theatres. The …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:38AM

A Canadian Epic: “Come From Away” by Berna Ataoğlu

The Tony Award-winning Musical Come From Away, written by Irene Sankoff and David Hein, premiered in 2016 as a co-production of La Jolla Playhouse and Seattle Repertory Theatre, staged in Wa…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:38AM
Monday, February 3, 2025

Rameau reinvented: Peter Sellars stages “Castor et Pollux” at the Opéra National de Paris by Maria Delgado

Peter Sellars isn’t afraid of taking risks. It’s part of his approach to making work, as his 2024 production of Beatrice di Tenda showed. For this new staging of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:05AM

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Nov 17, 2024: Elf - Marquis Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre