Monday, June 23, 2025

On Creativity, Labor, and Uncertainty: An Interview with Taiwanese Playwright Yu-Chia Wei by Kuan-Ting Lin

Yu-Chia Wei is a Taiwanese playwright whose work has earned numerous accolades. Her two plays, A Fable for Now and Mama/Popstar, won the Taiwan Literature Award and Taipei Literature Awards,…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:54AM
Thursday, June 19, 2025

Claire Dowie’s Why Is John Lennon Wearing a Skirt? at the Finborough Theatre: Pioneering Queer Theatre Artist Revisits Her Greatest Hits by Aleks Sierz

Let us always remember the pioneers. Although there is a fair amount of relatively mainstream queer theatre today (fueled in the popular imagination by RuPaul’s Drag Race on BBC television…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:37AM
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Terence Rattigan’s In Praise of Love at the Orange Tree Theatre: Rarely Revived 1973 Study Of Love In A Time Of Deception by Aleks Sierz

Only the truth, we are told, can set us free — but there are times in love when the New Testament Gospel of John is an inadequate guide. A good example is the situation that Terence Rattig…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:40PM
Friday, June 13, 2025

Creating History, Changing the Future, or Enslaved in Eternal Present: 70th Sterijino Pozorje Festival by Emilija Kvočka

In honour of playwright Jovan Sterija Popović, Sterijino pozorje was held this year for the seventieth time. In the selection curated by theatrologist and theatre critic Ana Tasić, nine pl…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 06:35AM
Monday, June 2, 2025

Pandora`s Ritual: To “Kill My Darlings” On The Brink Of An Individual Existential Revolution by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar

An interview with Wichi, a theatre director and actor, Athens, Greece Wichi was born in Thessaloniki. They are a director and actor, an honors graduate of the Directing Department of the Dra…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:36AM
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Ekman / León-Lightfoot / Dawson – a dance evening of excellence at Rome Opera House by Ariadne Mikou

Under the artistic direction of the étoile Eleonora Abbagnato, Rome Opera House (Teatro dell’Opera di Roma) continues its curatorial approach to dance by embracing contemporary creation i…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:00PM
Friday, May 23, 2025

Ubu Is The Symbol Of Rebellion Tyranny And Stupidity/Budget Cuts In Culture – A Serious Threat by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar

An Interview with Chantal Boiron, editor-in-chief for UBU Scenes d`Europe/European Stages, Paris, France. UBU European Stages is a bilingual (French/English) magazine created in 1996, UBU Sc…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 06:16AM
Sunday, May 18, 2025

”The Village”, Revolver Copenhagen by Duška Radosavljević

There is a big screen hanging above the stage on which four faces in four individual frames are apparently chatting to each other as we walk in. At the same time two other persons are busyin…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:06PM
Friday, May 16, 2025

“The Pillars of the Earth”: Bestseller and Musical. An Exclusive Interview with Ken Follett. Part II by Lisa Monde

For the first part of the interview go here.   From the earliest musicals, one can trace the creators’ desire to look for ideas for the story among literary works. There are more than a h…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:20PM
Thursday, May 15, 2025

“Hamlet”, Teatro La Plaza, Barbican by Duška Radosavljević

’To be or not to be’, that is a question with a completely new ring to it in Teatro La Plaza’s production performed by eight actors and actresses with Down’s syndrome and cognitive d…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:50AM
Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Catharsis in the Eleventh Row: The Aesthetics of Truth on Stage and an Audience That Is Not Afraid of the Dark by Emilija Kvočka

The time of frozen catharsis is now. But what kind of theatre refuses purification? Theatre performances and projects today often ignore the audience as a moral judge. However, this is almos…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:55AM

“Rhinoceros”, The Almeida Theatre by Duška Radosavljević

This Guardian pick of the year 2025 recently closed at London’s Almeida theatre, but it is definitely worth anthologizing for prosperity. I hope this also gives me the licence to write fre…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:48AM
Saturday, May 10, 2025

The Theater of Metaverse by Hayel Ali Al-Mathabi

Introduction It seems that the mission of the father of arts, “theatre”, as well as all forms of literature, was not always only to produce pleasure, describe life and its aesthetics, an…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:48AM
Friday, May 9, 2025

Do Not Get Your Acting Degree So That You Can Become Part Of The Payroll, Only To Satisfy Your Appetites by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar

An Interview with Mr.Bajrus Mjaku – one of the most remarkable theatre character actors from Skopje, R. Macedonia. Bajrus Mjaku was born in Kačanik, Kosovo in 1952. In the mid-1960s, he c…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:12PM
Thursday, May 8, 2025

A “Self-Portrait” By Davide Enia by Margaret Rose

Playwright, actor, director and novelist Davide Enia had his first success as a theatrical storyteller in 2002 with his one person play, Italy Brazil 3 to 2, which he wrote, performed and di…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:01AM
Wednesday, May 7, 2025

“The Cherry Orchard” By Benedict Andrews: A Stark Mirror For A Collapsing Present by Victoria Zavyalova

Benedict Andrews’ reinvention of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard at St. Ann’s Warehouse raises the devastating question of our era: When change comes, what becomes of the world we’re ab…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:01AM
Friday, May 2, 2025

Black and White. Aleksandr Volodin’s “Five Evenings,” directed by Eduard Tolokonnikov, produced by Polina Belkina, in New York City (March 20-30 by Vassili Schedrin

Soviet nonconformist art was emerged in the 1950s when artists dared to transcend the official canon of Socialist realism which prescribed rigid themes, genres, and design. The reds and yell…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:49AM
Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Conor McPherson’s The Brightening Air at the Old Vic: Wonderfully Numinous And Eccentric Account Of Family Life In 1980s Rural Ireland by Aleks Sierz

Theatre needs mystery. In the darkened auditorium, with a crowd of strangers sharing your experience, it is possible to believe in anything you see on the stage: ghosts, miracles and magic. …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 06:51AM
Friday, April 25, 2025

A Play About Abortion – “Hypothetıcal Baby” by Berna Ataoğlu

Hypothetical Baby is a one-woman show written and performed by Rachel Cairns, centered on her own abortion experience. The play combines elements of documentary and narrative theatre. It is …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:40AM
Thursday, April 24, 2025

Five Young Performance Artists Unravel the Meaning of Tradition: A Review of “Practicing Freedom” by Kyungjin Jo

In the intimate setting of a small black box theatre, audience members find themselves not in the fixed, sterile rows of traditional theatre seats but cozily relaxing in camping chairs arran…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:18AM
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Interview with Michael Salvatore Commendatore, Projection Designer for Disney’s Frozen at Children’s Theatre Company by Walter Byongsok Chon

This is a video interview with Michael Salvatore Commendatore, projection designer for Disney’s Frozen at Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The interview date is Marc…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 06:57AM
Sunday, April 20, 2025

Queer Surrealism in Two Sisters Find a Box of Lesbian Erotica in the Woods by Morgan Skolnik

Space Lesbians! Portals! Psychic Sisters! Oh my! These are just some of the elements introduced in the dizzying, sprawling, rollercoaster of a show that is Two Sisters Find a Box of Lesbian …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:51PM
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

“Shards of Chaotic Memory in Multicoloured Ink” by Margaret Rose

At Milan’s Franco Parenti theatre, Shards of Chaotic Memory in Multicoloured Ink (Schegge di memoria disordinata a inchiostro policromo) runs from 20 March to 13 April. This new play by Gi…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:34PM
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Julia Grogan’s Playfight at the Soho Theatre: Superbly Punchy Teen Drama That Electrifies The Senses And Engages The Emotions by Aleks Sierz

Coming of age stories are more or less all the same. But what distinguishes Julia Grogan’s Playfight, which was first staged at the Edinburgh Festival last year, and is now at London’s S…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:33PM
Saturday, April 12, 2025

Uncle Actor by Jonathan Kalb

Andrew Scott’s Vanya—a solo show in which he plays all the roles in Anton Chekhov’s classic play—is one of the most extraordinary acting performances I’ve seen. Certainly this year…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:01AM
Friday, April 11, 2025

Robert Icke’s Manhunt at the Royal Court Theatre: Terrifyingly Powerful Account Of Toxic Masculinity And Murderous Rage by Aleks Sierz

Are we really in “a new era of male anger, societal discontent and rage”? This is what Royal Court artistic director David Byrne claims in the programme of Manhunt, Robert Icke’s new d…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:26PM
Monday, April 7, 2025

“Liberation.” Roundabout Theatre. Look Back to Know Where You Are by Cristina Modreanu

Did you knit your scarf? A woman asked me while we were waiting in the line for the restroom. No! I wish I could, but I don’t know how to knit, I answered. You should join the knitting clu…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:25AM
Sunday, April 6, 2025

Self-Ish Dramaturgy: Personal Practice At The Kennedy Center College Theatre Festival by Aysha Zackria

I’m Aysha Zackria. I’m a 23 year old Queer Pakistani-American woman living in D.C. Through my experiences at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival and the Eugene O’Neill…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:23AM
Thursday, April 3, 2025

Violence Is Not Fate. Change Is Possible by Berna Ataoğlu

Turkish writer, theatre critic, and academic Zehra İpşiroğlu’s book Woman Plays features three theatre plays—Fathers, Uncles, and Others, Confrontation, and The Prison of Masculinity�…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:32AM
Wednesday, April 2, 2025

The Beauty of Cultural Specificity in “Bubble Schmeisis” by Morgan Skolnik

The room is thick with steam (ok, it’s smoke machine smoke), an accordion and clarinet cycle through tunes that are joyfully melancholic, or perhaps melancholically joyful, in the way that…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:31AM

I Am Not Afraid For The Future Of The Theatre by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar

An Interview with Ms. Zeljka Turcinovic – dramaturg, editor of magazines: Croatian Theatre and Dance Magazine – Kretanja/ Movements, head of Croatian ITI Center, selector of Croatian The…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:21AM