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

I Hold On To The Beautiful Side Of Theatre by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar

Interview with theatre director Tamara Stojanoska, Skopje/Prilep, R.N. Macedonia. Interviewer Ivanka Apostolova Baskar   Tamara Stojanoska (theatre director) was born year 1997, in Prilep,…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:17AM
Tuesday, August 26, 2025

We Passed Through The Wall Of Sorrow Together by Mehdi Shahedi

We are an avant-garde theatre group, and after our successful performance of The History Boys by Alan Bennett in 2017, we turned to a wild and daring experiment: a production based on Dostoe…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:33AM
Monday, August 25, 2025

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025: Provisional Futures in a World on Fire by Duška Radosavljević

For the last thirty years of my attendance, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe has always been too big to grasp in its entirety. In 2025, with a record 4,000 registered shows, the challenge is no…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:31AM

German Summer Festival Theatre (2): Domfestspiele Verden, “Die Zündholzfrau” by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

In 1997, an association was founded in the German city of Verden on the river Aller, located between Bremen and Hannover in Lower Saxony, to arrange large-scale theatre productions, in the f…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:57AM

“No Apologies” by Emma Frankland, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 by Duška Radosavljević

Emma Frankland’s No Apologies achieves something genuinely rare: a radical reimagining that feels both vital and sumptuous. Her premise echoing as a refrain throughout the piece— “Kurt…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:40AM

“The Ego” by Anemone Valcke and Verona Verbakel, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 by Duška Radosavljević

Anemone Valcke and Verona Verbakel’s The Ego emerges from Ontroerend Goed’s theatrical lineage with characteristic Belgian fearlessness and appetite for (self-)reflection. What begins as…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:40AM

“Riot Days” by Pussy Riot, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 by Duška Radosavljević

What is the purpose of performing arts when the stakes are literally life and death? Pussy Riot’s Riot Days confronts this question with unflinching directness, transforming the concert h…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:39AM

“Thanks for Being Here” by Ontroerend Goed, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 by Duška Radosavljević

The Belgian Company Ontroerend Goed have been coming to the Edinburgh Fringe for so long that I can no longer imagine how their work would seem to someone on first encounter anymore. Not tha…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:39AM
Sunday, August 24, 2025

German Summer Festival Theatre (1): Theatersommer Wismar, Brecht/Weill The Threepenny Opera by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

Over the summer months, all of the publicly funded state and municipal theatres, as well as Landesbühnen and some privately owned theatres have an institutional holiday season of six to eig…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:50AM

“Aether”, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 by Duška Radosavljević

Emma Howlett’s Aether arrives with impressive academic credentials—consultations with Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, and Stanford universities lending gravitas to TheatreGoose’s latest …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:37AM

“Little Bulb: Listen Dance”, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 by Duška Radosavljević

What does it take to get you up on your feet and into the groove? Whatever your disposition, Little Bulb’s Listen Dance delivers a “raucous evening of social dance and live music” with…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:37AM

“The Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave”, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 by Duška Radosavljević

Oli Mathiesen’s dance piece The Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave has been described by this young Māori choreographer as an “acid house remix that screams f**k you to the pandemic.” W…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:37AM
Saturday, August 23, 2025

Duncan Macmillan’s Every Brilliant Thing at @Sohoplace: Moving Mixture Of Joyous Theatricality And Serious Mental Health Themes by Aleks Sierz

Slowly, very slowly, the audience begins to arrive. Taking their seats, shedding jackets, arranging bags and glancing at programmes. But already, there’s a stir: the imposing figure of act…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:37AM
Tuesday, August 19, 2025

“A Poem And A Mistake,” Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 by Margaret Rose

At the Edinburgh Fringe, the solo show, A Poem and a Mistake, is playing for the entire month of August at the iconic Assembly Rooms. I was curious to see how contemporary American playwrigh…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:04AM

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