Friday, March 13, 2026

Romeo Castellucci “Believing In Masks” At Milan’s Fog Festival by Margaret Rose

FOG, Milan’s performing arts festival, is back with some rare treats for theatregoers keen to discover the best in cutting-edge work on international circuits, as well as emerging artists,…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:29PM

“Last Call” Brings Us Closer To Bernstein And Von Karajan by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

Plays about famous people have always held special attraction to dramatists, theatres and audiences. Plays about famous artists (such as actors, musicians, painters, and poets) have held a p…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:25PM
Wednesday, March 11, 2026

“Is Love Energy Or Matter?” An Interview With Rok Vilcnik, Slovenian Playwright, Author, Musician, Poet by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar

Rok Vilčnik (b. 1968), also known as rokgre, is a prominent Slovenian author, poet, playwright, lyricist, and multidisciplinary artist working across theatre, literature, music, television,…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:46AM

The Piccolo Theatro’s “Miracle In Milan” by Margaret Rose

On the opening night of Miracle in Milan at the Piccolo Teatro Strehler, the excitement of the audience, flocking into the 968-seater auditorium, was tangible. Seventy-five years after the e…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:43AM
Monday, March 9, 2026

“An Enemy Of The People:” An Oblique Look At Democracy From Schaubühne Berlin by Katerina Pestamatzoglou

An Enemy of the People was first introduced to Greek audiences in 1902 by the pioneering “New Stage” of Konstantinos Christomanos. This year, An Enemy of the People is being staged at th…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:55PM
Saturday, March 7, 2026

A Beer And A Mop by Jonathan Kalb

Jake Brasch’s The Reservoir tells the story of a charmingly self-deprecating, openly gay NYU theater student named Josh who is a chronically relapsing drunk. Josh wakes up after a blackout…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:55PM

“Digital Access To The Performing Arts” Released Open Access by The Theatre Times

The newly published book Digital Access to the Performing Arts: A Comparative Study of Legal and Structural Challenges by Magda Romanska (Bristol University Press, 2026) has been selected by…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:29AM
Thursday, March 5, 2026

Dea Loher’s New Play “Frau Yamamoto Ist Noch Da” In Bremen And Osnabrück by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

Dea Loher (b. 1964), has been a prominent German dramatist since the world premiere of her first play, Olgas Raum, in 1991. Her publisher, Verlag der Autoren, lists 24 plays. Frau Yamamoto i…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:49PM
Tuesday, March 3, 2026

Monster Mash by Jonathan Kalb

Ngozi Anyanwu’s The Monsters is a poignant and muscular two-hander about a Black brother and sister, estranged for 16 years, who reconcile over intensive training in MMA fighting. It’s a…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:55PM
Monday, March 2, 2026

Isolation, Consumer Desire and the Human Spirit: A Review of “The Chair and the Cello” by David O'Donnell

By a fortuitous coincidence, a new theatre-work The Chair and The Cello – which features an armchair manufactured by a Swedish homewares corporation – premiered two days before that same…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 06:21AM
Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Picasso’s “Barber” At The Spanish National Theatre by Duncan Wheeler

Balding men are often precious about their hair. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was no exception. First in Spain, and later during his exile in France following General Franco’s victory in the …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:29AM
Friday, February 20, 2026

Olga Braga’s “Donbas” at Theatre 503: Complex Account Of The Start Of The Ukraine War Is Deeply Humanistic by Aleks Sierz

Today, in Geneva, there are tentative peace talks between Ukraine and Russia; today, in London, there is a powerful play about the ongoing war. Oddly enough, it is fringe venues, the Finboro…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:48PM
Thursday, February 19, 2026

In the City of al-Sayyab, Theatre Still Speaks by Amir Al-Azraki

Basra is shaped by louder forces such as oil, politics, and the constant negotiation of visible and invisible censorship. Against these forces, theatre appears fragile. And yet, it speaks. N…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:07AM

Terence Rattigan’s “Man and Boy” at the National Theatre: Rare 1960s Rattigan Play Gets A Meta-Theatrical Revival by Aleks Sierz

Terence Rattigan is a posh playwright whose work encapsulates the emotional restraint of the 1950s, and who was overtaken by the Angry Young Men. Right? Wrong! Although this sketch of his ca…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:01AM
Tuesday, February 17, 2026

“Hamlet²” (“Amleto²”) by Margaret Rose

In late January and early February, Filippo Timi’s Hamlet² played to full houses at the 500-seater auditorium of Milan’s Franco Parenti theatre. One of the finest actors in contemporary…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:00AM
Friday, February 13, 2026

The Trans Excellence of Faggotica by Morgan Skolnik

Anticipation and intrigue flood the room– a room which both is and is not the club. I and around 120 of the most stylish people I have ever seen have been herded into taped off sections of…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:58PM
Tuesday, February 10, 2026

“Between.Europe: Theatre In Romania.” Conversations And Visual Theatrical Exchanges Between Romania And Poland by Teodora Medeleanu

Somewhat on the fringes of the Poland-Romania Cultural Season, the 2025 Between.Pomiędzy Festival follows the pattern of bilateral events, by bridging the cultural worlds of these two count…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 06:26AM
Monday, February 9, 2026

NYC’s Under The Radar Festival Uses Lessons From The Past To Shape The Future by Victoria Zavyalova

In January, the NYC Under the Radar Festival presented some of the most innovative and thought-provoking work on the contemporary stage. This year’s edition, the festival’s largest to da…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:00PM

Frantic Assembly’s “Lost Atoms” at the Lyric Hammersmith: 30th Anniversary Show Is About Love But Its Story Is Predictable And Bland by Aleks Sierz

Some shows have great moments, but somehow just don’t work — the whole is less than the sum of its parts. This is my feeling about Frantic Assembly’s 30th anniversary show, Lost Atoms,…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:48PM
Sunday, February 8, 2026

“The Devil Wears Prada” and Other Musicals by Sir Elton John. by Lisa Monde

For American audiences, the musical The Devil Wears Prada, anticipated to premiere on Broadway in 2026, will become the sixth musical theatre creation featuring the music by Sir Elton John, …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:48PM
Friday, February 6, 2026

The “Screen / Stage” Programme At The Between.Pomiędzy Festival 2025 by Paulina Peret

The “Screen / Stage” program was created as a space for shared viewing, discussion, and reflection on digital forms of contemporary theatre. Positioned at the intersection of live perfor…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:49AM

In Oldenburg’s “The Tempest,” Trusting The Text Pays Off by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

For this production of Shakespeare’s play, Oldenburgisches Staatstheateer used the 2007 translation by theatre studies professor, dramatist and translator Jens Roselt, who is a graduate of…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:02AM

Enzo Moscato. “I Can’t Tell The Story Of My Life” (“Non Posso Narrare La Mia Vita”) by Margaret Rose

Neapolitan poet and dramatist Enzo Moscato passed away in 2024 at the age of 75. Together with Annibale Ruccello and Manilio Santanelli, he came to fame in the 1980s as one of the leading ex…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:00AM
Thursday, February 5, 2026

Raising Fists and Sharing Bread: Tiziano Cruz’s “Wayqeycuna” (Argentina) by Yizhou Zhang

A shimmering Andes mountain range made of light and weave. The sound of rattling bells. A brown-skinned man dressed in a colourful poncho, walks through the mountains, arriving at the stage …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:22PM
Wednesday, February 4, 2026

Bad Data by Jonathan Kalb

At the risk of sounding smug, let me say: I have been yowling, since the early days of the internet, to anyone who would listen, about the dangers of relinquishing our personal data and priv…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:48PM

Santiago’s Teatro a Mil 2026: theatre, democracy and artistic responsibility by Maria Delgado

There were two key themes running through this year’s Teatro a Mil, the Chilean capital’s long-running theatre and performing arts festival. “Yes, Theatre Matters” may have been the …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:18AM
Tuesday, February 3, 2026

“A Place Of Safety, A Journey In The Central Mediterranean” by Margaret Rose

A Place of Safety, A Journey in the Central Mediterranean, produced by the Kepler-452 Company played at the Angela Melato Studio, Piccolo Theatre, from 6 to 20 December. Founded in Bologna i…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:55AM
Thursday, January 29, 2026

Kia Mau Festival brings Hana Keaka (Hawaiian language theatre) to Aotearoa: A Review of “Puana” written and directed by Tammy Haili‘ōpua Baker by David O'Donnell

In the opening scene of Puana, a musical play written and directed by Professor Tammy Haili‘ōpua Baker, a curious young man sifts through a trunk of memorabilia in his family home. As he …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:53AM
Tuesday, January 27, 2026

“Before The Storm” (“Prima Del Temporale”) At Milan’s Piccolo Teatro by Margaret Rose

Before the Storm is set in a rather dilapidated dressing room where an elderly actor waits to go onstage for his last performance in August Strindberg’s Storm. As he waits, he reflects on …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:38AM

How to Make Rube Goldberg Punk Rock: Narcissister’s “Voyage Into Infinity” by Morgan Skolnik

The morning of the day I saw Narcissister’s spellbinding and stunningly original Voyage Into Infinity I had been working my day job at a bagel shop. “There’s no flow!” I overheard on…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:37AM
Monday, January 26, 2026

Martin Crimp’s Version Of “The Seagull” Makes It To The German Stage by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

Many, especially prestigious, new productions of Chekhov’s The Seagull in the UK and USA commission new translations or versions of the play. For example, in 1985, for his West End product…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:43AM

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2025-2026 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 12, 2025: Call Me Izzy - Studio 54
Sep 16, 2025: Art - Music Box Theatre
Oct 08, 2025: Beetlejuice - Palace Theatre
Nov 13, 2025: Oedipus - Studio 54
Nov 16, 2025: Chess - Imperial Theatre
Mar 23, 2026: Giant - Music Box Theatre
Apr 06, 2026: Becky Shaw - Hayes Theater
Apr 16, 2026: Proof - Booth Theatre
Apr 26, 2026: Drama Desk Cut-Off