Sunday, November 9, 2025

The Filmed Performance “Woodland Bird Woman” – a Collaboration Between Esther Salamon, Robert Laycock And David Stephenson: Between.Pomiędzy Di by Martin Blaszk

Something flitters among the green leaves of bramble and the brown leaves of a previous autumn. There is movement, there is sound – the hum of traffic and a labor of breathing. Hands are s…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:23PM
Friday, November 7, 2025

3sisters at the Novi Sad Theatre by Emilija Kvočka

Before the audience of the play 3sisters, with their eyes wide open, a music box, the girls on film, the Yugo-wave, the empty space, and the Chekhov of the future are embodied. The direction…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:54AM
Sunday, November 2, 2025

Jack Holden’s The Line of Beauty at the Almeida Theatre: A Subtle And Appealing Adaptation Of A Modern Classic 1980s Story by Aleks Sierz

Thatcher, and the image of Thatcher’s Britain, continues to cast a long shadow over contemporary culture. So it’s hardly a surprise that the most audience-pleasing moment in playwright J…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:23AM
Friday, October 31, 2025

FITPTI – International Festival For Young Audiences 2025 – A Northeastern Romanian Story by Teodora Medeleanu

In Romanian culture, a vital coming-of-age moment for every teenager is their eighteenth birthday, marking, almost physically, the starting point of adulthood. Luceafărul Theatre’s Intern…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:30AM
Thursday, October 30, 2025

Tanika Gupta’s “Hedda” at the Orange Tree Theatre: A Fresh And Fascinating Reinterpretation Of A Classic Which Foregrounds The Issues Of Race An by Aleks Sierz

In 2023, Malaysian actor Michelle Yeoh won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance in Everything Everywhere All at Once. Some reactions praised her as “the first Asian actress” to ach…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:26AM
Wednesday, October 29, 2025

The Queen of Versailles Musical or the Funeral of the “American dream.” by Lisa Monde

The Queen of Versailles. A New Musical will officially open on Broadway, at the St. James Theatre on November 9th, after several weeks of previews. The show is based on the life stories of D…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:22AM

Adaptations On The German Stage (1): “Sein Oder Nicht Sein” In Bremerhaven by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

Sein oder nicht sein is a play by Nick Whitby (b.1963), premiered on Broadway in 2008, and first presented in Germany at Deutsches Theater Berlin in 2009. It is based on the 1942 film of the…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:17AM
Monday, October 27, 2025

Meghan Tyler’s “Crocodile Fever” at the Arcola Theatre: Northern Ireland Sisters In A Darkly Funny Anti-Patriarchal Feast Of Symbols by Aleks Sierz

Weird scenes inside the farmhouse; weird scenes in Northern Ireland; weird scenes of the 1980s. Meghan Tyler’s Crocodile Fever at the Arcola Theatre is a breath-takingly eccentric and wond…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:23PM

Six-Hour Tour De Force “Hamlet” In Hamburg, Directed, With Many Ironic Self-References, By Veteran Legendary Frank Castorf by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

This six-hour production of Hamlet took Shakespeare’s play as the starting and end point, in the German version by Heiner Müller, with additional material from Müller’s Hamletmaschine,…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:26AM

LegalAlien’s “The Flowers of Srebrenica”: Theatre as Healing by Verity Healey

The Flowers of Srebrenica should be impossible to stage. Irish academic Aidan Hehir’s book, a narrative account of visiting Srebrenica (now a Memorial Centre), where the UN left thousands …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:25AM
Sunday, October 26, 2025

Nick Payne’s The Unbelievers at the Royal Court Theatre: Latest Play By A Top New Writer Is Disappointingly Unfocused by Aleks Sierz

The Royal Court, Britain’s premiere new writing venue, celebrates its platinum anniversary next year — yes, it’s been 70 years since 1956’s Look Back in Anger. In anticipation, the t…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:24PM
Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Barbarians in Midtown by Jonathan Kalb

The Terrence McNally/Stephen Flaherty/Lynn Ahrens musical Ragtime is not the subtlest theater contraption. Premiered on Broadway in 1998, it’s a big, galumphing machine with very big thing…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:25AM
Monday, October 20, 2025

“All Right. Good Night.:” A Poetic Meditation on the Art of Letting Go by Victoria Zavyalova

In All Right. Good Night., German docu-theater artist Helgard Haug turns loss into a language. The work interlaces two stories of disappearance — the mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:07PM
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Bloody Ignorant Apes by Jonathan Kalb

Absurd as it may seem, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, a demanding play about existential despair and cosmic futility first performed in 1953, has just opened on Broadway for the fifth…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:25AM
Saturday, October 11, 2025

Maestras On The Podium: Women Conductors On Broadway, Then And Now by Sariva Goetz

When I was four years old, I asked my parents for piano lessons. We always had a piano in the house. There was a lot of big band music played on the stereo with the occasional Broadway cast …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:53PM
Friday, October 10, 2025

“Lale Lili Marleen:” The Promising Relaunch Of A Quaint Chamber Theatre In The Oldest District Of Bremen by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

The small district of Schnoor in the northern German city of Bremen, consisting of some 100 houses, has had a long history. First mentioned in the 13th century, the oldest parts of extant bu…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 06:55AM
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

James Graham’s “Punch” at the Apollo Theatre: Compelling And Emotionally Intense Account Of Restorative Justice by Aleks Sierz

Broken Britain has a big problem with youth. About a million of those aged 16 to 24 are NEETs (not in education, employment or training), some 13 per cent of this age group. Many working-cla…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:31PM

“Full Moon” by Josef Nadj at the Festival of International Alternative Theatre (FIAT) in Montenegro by Emilija Kvočka

“By the term theatre we do not only mean its expressive linguistic side, but also the cultural, social, and organisational aspect of the phenomenon… among many people, theatrical plays, …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:31PM
Friday, September 26, 2025

Debating Identity: Is It Time to Rename Cairo’s Experimental Theater Festival? by Ati Metwaly

The Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theater (CIFET) has long been a vital platform for the boundary-pushing theatrical voices in the Arab world, and beyond. Recently, debates h…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:56PM

Conor McPherson’s “The Weir” at the Harold Pinter Theatre: Beautifully Acted Revival Of A 1990s New Writing Classic by Aleks Sierz

Perhaps it’s an indicator of the feebleness of new writing after the pandemic that so many of the current highly hyped plays are 1990s and 2000s revivals — success in the past is, it is …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:56PM
Friday, September 19, 2025

Cruelty, Guilt, And Redemption Intertwine In “The Mutt” At IATI Theater by Victoria Zavyalova

With minimal décor and symbolism in every gesture, The Mutt — an adaptation of Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov at IATI Theater — blends experimental staging with unvarnished perfo…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:32AM
Wednesday, September 17, 2025

International Project – Dramaturgy Lab: Exploring West Balkan Plays – “Big Deal” By Mia Efremova by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar

Collective interview with Amy Sze (Theatre maker and arts producer, London, UK-Hong Kong), Mia Efremova/Mia Volt (playwright, Štip, R.N.Macedonia), and Tree Kwok (theatre director/dramaturg…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 06:29AM
Monday, September 15, 2025

Theatre Is A University, A Lifelong Study Of Human Nature by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar

Interview with Sandra Gribovska Ilievska, theatre actress, Bitola, R. Macedonia Sandra Gribovska Ilievska (Bitola, 1992) is a Macedonian actress and a member of the National Theater Bitola s…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:46AM
Thursday, September 11, 2025

Violence and Therapy: 29th International Shakespeare Festival in Gdańsk, Poland, 2025 by Marta Bryś

The International Shakespeare Festival in Gdańsk is not the festival of masterpieces and it never has been its aim. However, if you are looking for interesting, innovative and updated voice…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:02AM
Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Lessing’s “Emilia Galotti” As Directorial Debut In Bremen by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

At German theatres, some assistant directors are employed for the duration of a production, from first rehearsals to opening night, or until the last performance. In any one season, such ass…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:37AM
Friday, September 5, 2025

Unbound Curation – The Freedom Of Programming Without Frames by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar

An Interview with Mr. Guy Coolen, art director, producer, manager, Antwerp, Belgium/Rotterdam, Netherlands. Interviewer Ivanka Apostolova Baskar.   Guy Coolen (1966) is one of Europe’s l…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:56PM
Sunday, August 31, 2025

“Tired” Of Consuming Postdramatic Theatre (Contemporary Theatre Often Lacks Strong Dialogue) by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar

An Interview with Ana Ristoska Trpenoska, a playwright, dramaturg, Vienna/Skopje, Austria/R.N. Macedonia. Interviewer Ivanka Apostolova Baskar.   Ana Ristoska Trpenoska (1984, Skopje) stud…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:47PM
Saturday, August 30, 2025

Shakespeare In The Park At The New Delacorte Theater: Love Is Gender Fluid by Cristina Modreanu

In a world where the rule is to make huge efforts to attain an “effortless, relaxed” look, the new show at the recently renovated Delacorte Theatre in Central Park – Twelfth Night – …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:44PM
Thursday, August 28, 2025

To Embrace Vulnerability As One Of My Greatest Strengths (Stronger, Braver, Vulnerable) by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar

An Interview with wonderful talented actresses Jovana Miladinova, Skopje, R.N. Macedonia. Interviewer Ivanka Apostolova Baskar   Jovana Mialdinova is born in Skopje. She is third year stude…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:37AM

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 in 22 Shows by Mert Dilek

This year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe was as sprawling and invigorating as ever, and expectedly sharp in some of its preoccupations: questions of identity, memory, political urgency, and t…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:37AM
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

“When Billy Met Alasdair” At The Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 by Margaret Rose

Writer-actor Alan Bissett’s When Billy met Alasdair imagines what happened when Alasdair Gray (1934-2019 ) and Billy Connolly (1942-) met in 1981 at a book launch of Lanark, Gray’s celeb…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:18AM

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