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Seats have long been sold out for this production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, which brings iconic actor Kenneth Branagh back to the RSC (Royal Shakespeare Company) after a thirty-year hi…
This year’s theatre Biennale (7 to 21 June), with Willem Dafoe at the helm, has the intriguing title, Alter Native. In fact, in the program, the director and his advisory team have include…
This year’s theatre Biennale (7 to 21 June), with Willem Dafoe at the helm, has the intriguing title, Alter Native. In fact, in the program, the director and his advisory team have include…
Anissa Naji is a Moroccan-German multilingual actor, comedian, singer, writer, and teaching artist based in New York City. She is fluent in English, Spanish, Arabic (Maghreb & Levant), F…
An interview with Mrs. Gabriela Abrasowicz (Slavist, translator, and theatre scholar, Poland). Gabriela Abrasowicz is a Polish Slavist, translator, and theatre scholar. She graduated from th…
Klaus Mann’s novel Mephisto, published in 1936, deals with the opportunistic rise of its main character, Hendrik Höfgen to become one of the leading actors, directors and theatre managers…
This year’s theatre Biennale (7 to 21 June), with Willem Dafoe at the helm, has the intriguing title, Alter Native. In fact, in the program, the director and his advisory team have include…
4/5 Stars Coming from a glimpse of a barren thought of the sense of being presented with the concrete knowledge and perspectives of what sex education is for a kid growing up into becoming a…
The Finborough Theatre is one of the smallest in London, yet it has a great track record in selecting new plays. With room for barely 50 spectators, its budget is tiny, but its vibe is treme…
The stage, designed by Thomas Rupert, was vast and predominantly empty, the floor mainly even and sloping up at the very back. The walls were painted in shades of grey, as were the matching …
Juan Mayorga began writing El jardín quemado (The Scorched Garden) in 1996, completing it the following year. Close to thirty years on, Mayorga directs it at Madrid’s Teatro de la Abadía…
When Florian Battermann founded the Komödie am Altstadtmarkt in Braunschweig in 2003 at the age of 30, it was then the most recent addition to the boulevard comedy theatre scene in Germany.…
On a cold Saturday afternoon this past winter, retired director Laura Jones drove me around the small town of Fort Collins, Colorado. Jones, who was the subject of a piece I wrote for TheThe…
An Interview with Mr. Ivica Matičević, president of the Fellowship Miroslav Krleza Fund, literary historian, literary critic, comparatist, editor (Zagreb, Croatia) Ivica Matičević (bo…
In his biography of Federico García Lorca, Ian Gibson observes that the writer’s assassination took place on the moonless night of the 18th August — a fact that acquires particular sign…
Spirit and the Dust is a play by American dramatist Noah Haidle. The world premiere of the play, in its translation into German by Barbara Christ, took place on 27th February 2026 at Deutsch…
American women of a certain vintage can be sorted into haves and have-nots based on possession of a single commodity: an American Girl doll. Just whisper the name Samantha Parkington to an e…
Rocks and rolling, in a most literal sense, is probably the closest it gets to describing the visual idiom of Peeping Tom’s 2025 offering Chroniques. The Belgian dance company, established…
Annie Baker’s Circle Mirror Transformation is currently enjoying a highly acclaimed tour to major Italian theatres. The play made its debut in an Off-Broadway production in 2009, after whi…
An Interview with Žaneta Vangeli, visual artist, professor, and set designer for the theatre performances of the late theatre director Oliver Micevski (Lolita, Hands Around, Norway.today, T…
Belarus Free Theatre, which currently operates in exile in London, recently presented its production KS6: Small Forward for a three-night run at Théâtre Les Abbesses from May 11–13. Dire…
The latest production in Dirk Böhling’s inaugural season as artistic director of the Packhaustheater is a further new play he wrote and directed about a famous local person: Paula Moderso…
Dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the world premiere The idea for the musical Chess belongs to the British author, lyricist, and dramatist Tim Rice. The events of the Cuban Missile Crisis…
There was something almost suspiciously neat about the programming. MİTEM opened with Richard III and closed with Richard III. On paper, that sounds like a clever curatorial decision, maybe…
An Interview with Lenerson Polonini, theatre director (Companhia Nova de Teatro, Sau Paulo, Brazil). Lenerson Polonini is a dynamic theater director based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. With a rich a…
