Monday, November 18, 2024

“Flower Sajza” at The National Experimental Theater of Tirana- Kosovo Albania Theatre Showcase by Verity Healey

In Flower Sajza, directed by Endri Çela at the National Experimental Theater of Tirana, two women stand on the stage facing the main body of the audience. They are behind a fence of barbed …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:31PM

“How I Learned To Drive” – Heartefact Fund at the Kosovo Albania Theatre Showcase by Verity Healey

Heartefact Fund is a young company based in Serbia. Normally, the company performs in an apartment in Belgrade, ensuring audiences feel an intimacy and closeness to the productions and actor…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:30PM
Sunday, November 17, 2024

The Kosovo Albania Theatre Showcase 2024 – A Review of “The Internationals”   by Verity Healey

The Director, a positive character The Critic  is a sitter on fences and neither a positive nor negative character  The Writer, a positive character The Critic’s Inner Voice, a negative…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:50AM
Thursday, November 14, 2024

Starlight Express The Musical: 40 Years in The Orbit by Lisa Monde

 Dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the first original production of the musical Starlight Express The 40th anniversary of the West End production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Starl…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:02AM
Monday, November 11, 2024

Capitalism Meets Austerity in Àlex Rigola’s “Glengarry Glen Ross” by Maria Delgado

Àlex Rigola first staged David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross at Barcelona’s Teatre Lliure twenty-one years ago. It was an epic, fast-moving staging realised in a gyrating fishbowl set, ch…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:58AM
Sunday, November 10, 2024

Chela De Ferrari’s “The Seagull”: Theatre, Identity and Unrequited Love by Maria Delgado

Peruvian director Chela De Ferrari of Lima’s Teatro La Plaza, reconfigured Hamlet — seen at this year’s Edinburgh International Festival — through the eyes of actors with Down’s S…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:24PM
Saturday, November 9, 2024

Shakespeare In Iraq: An Interview With Dr. Samir Talib by Amir Al-Azraki

Dr. Samir Talib is an Iraqi scholar specializing in Shakespeare and Renaissance studies. He earned his M.A. in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature from Baghdad University in 2005, followe…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:21PM
Thursday, November 7, 2024

The Many Monsters of Ars Nova’s “The Beastiary” by Morgan Skolnik

Created by On the Rocks Theatre Co. (the two person co-writer and designer team Christopher Ford and Dakota Rose) The Beastiary is a hypnotic feast for the senses, engorging its audiences in…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:34PM
Tuesday, November 5, 2024

“Kafkaesque!” A Musical That Is As Hilarious As It Is, Well, Kafkaesque by Morgan Skolnik

Emily Bronte doesn’t have an acronym but Franz Kafka does and Kafkaesque! Directed by Ashley Brooke Monroe and now running at Theatre 154 has 90 jam packed minutes proving why. James Harve…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:41AM
Friday, November 1, 2024

Ché Walker’s Burnt-Up Love at the Finborough Theatre: Crime and Redemption In A Shining Gem Of A Show by Aleks Sierz

Fringe venues perform a vital role on the ecology of London theatre. While many shows at these small venues are underfunded, and some are frankly rough as well as ready, you can occasionally…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:48PM
Thursday, October 31, 2024

“Ghosts of My House” In İstanbul: A Contemporary Canadian Play Out Of Context Or Domesticating Whiteness by Deniz Bașar

It is the 24th of September 2024 in İstanbul, and I’m finding my way through the curvy streets of Galata to reach Asmalı Sahne, an alternative-independent blackbox space that was establi…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:47PM
Wednesday, October 30, 2024

“1981” directed by Tomi Janežič at Novi Sad Theatre by Emilija Kvočka

When the premiere performance of the play 1981, directed by Tomi Janežič, began at the Novi Sad Theatre/Újvidéki Színház, time stood still. A milky way of new theatrical movements open…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:47PM
Saturday, October 26, 2024

Director Laura Jones’ Career-Long Exploration Of Beckett Concludes With “Godot” by Paul Shields

One day, Laura Jones was late to pick up her three-year-old daughter, Amy. Not a happy moment for the little girl, Jones’s tardiness would have a major impact on her career as a director. …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:47PM
Friday, October 25, 2024

Trans Joy in The Christine Jorgensen Show by Morgan Skolnik

The Christine Jorgensen Show isn’t perfect, but it’s just so delightfully charming it’s hard to notice. Jesse James Keitel as the world’s first transgender celebrity Christine Jorgen…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:52PM
Wednesday, October 23, 2024

“Tattooer” At Atelier Shunpusha: “Tattooer” Reworks Tanizaki’s Japanese Tale Of Desire And Power With Subtlety And Verve by Mika Eglinton

Tattooer is a playful yet critical adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki’s (1886-1965) debut short story of 1910 by the same name. Adapted by Takuya Kaneshima and directed by Hogara Kawai in a…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:58AM
Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Regional Producing Theatres In England. Leeds Playhouse: A Case Study by Dave Stannard

Back in 2019, I decided to write a book about the Leeds Playhouse. “Why?”, my friends asked me; “Because no one else has done so”, was often my reply. The Playhouse was about to cele…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:57AM

Deep Thoughts on Deep History at The Public Theater by Morgan Skolnik

Inside the Public Theater it’s 2019 and Australia is on fire. Outside the theater it’s 2024 and North Carolina is under water. It is with this context that Australian theater artist and …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:30AM
Sunday, October 20, 2024

“In The Name Of Profit” At Fringe Milano Off by Margaret Rose

The city of Milan hosts two annual Fringe events, the first in June, and the second, in late September and early October. I caught the latter, Fringe Milanooff, situated in forty different v…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:05PM

Robert Icke’s Oedipus at Wyndham’s Theatre: Lots Of Stunning Acting Compensates For Some Questionable Writing by Aleks Sierz

The myth of Oedipus is so central to our psychic world that I was really surprised how many people in the audience for this revival were shocked by the revelation of the protagonist’s ince…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:04PM
Saturday, October 19, 2024

Trauma In Translation: Stratford’s Milestone Salesman In China by Barbara Gabriel

“My head feels like a bridge that all of Beijing has been walking over.” The stage is bare except for a backlit figure who emerges in silhouette through a doorway, wearing a nondescript …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:03PM
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Electrifying Ensemble Performance and Political Satire in New Māori Play: “Unreel” by Helen Pearse-Otene by David O'Donnell

The stage explodes with ihi (essential force) and aroha (love, empathy) in Unreel, the new work by Māori theatre company Te Rākau Hua O Te Wao Tapu (which translates as The Blossoming Frui…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:07PM

“Paisatges Compartits (Shared Landscapes)”, A Pleasant Day of Theatrical Land Art by Antonio Hernández Nieto

The meeting point is in l’Animal a l’esquena, Malpelo dance company rehearsals site. Celrá forest and crops that surrounds the place will become the stages of the pieces included in Pai…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:01PM
Sunday, October 13, 2024

La Vie En Sickly Rose: Florian Zeller’s “The Son” at the German State Theatre by Ilinca Todoruţ

The entire stage is the same shade of pale, dusty pink: the extra-long couch and side tables, the floor, the three backdrops encompassing the interior of an elegant urban apartment of the up…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:24AM
Saturday, October 12, 2024

“Eréndira”: Show Business As Usual by Ilinca Todoruţ

Yuri Kordonsky’s Eréndira at the German State Theatre in Timișoara is a visually gorgeous, well-acted, and imaginatively directed stage adaptation of a seedy and second-rate 1972 novella…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:22AM
Friday, October 11, 2024

Theatrical Tectonics: The Slowdown Entertainment of a José Rivera Play by Ilinca Todoruţ

A couple of hours before watching José Rivera’s play Cloud Tectonics staged at the German State Theatre in Timișoara, Romania, I was chatting with the theatre’s head of dramaturgy and …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:49AM
Thursday, October 10, 2024

“Border” And “Sheol/שאול” – Wachowicz/Fret Studio At Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 by Klaudia Święcicka (klaudiusz Święcicki)

At this year’s Edinburgh Festival in the Grotowski Institute Residence Cube at Fringe 2024 Wachowicz/Fret Studio presented two performances: Border and Sheol/שאול. Both are extremely i…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:47AM
Wednesday, October 9, 2024

On State Theatres and Minoritarian Theatres: Interview with Andrea Wolfer, Head of the Dramaturgy and PR Department of the German State Theatre in Tim by Ilinca Todoruţ

How is the German State Theatre different from other Romanian public theatres? Last year, when Timișoara was the European Capital of Culture, international visitors were very surprised that…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:31PM

Meet ONG Keng Sen, the Artistic Director of Singapore’s T:>Works and Keynote Speaker at the 2024 Singapore Literature Festival in NYC by Walter Byongsok Chon

The 6th biennial Singapore Literature Festival is held in New York City on October 19 and 20, 2024. Under the title “Living Adaptations,” the festival will spotlight writing and directin…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:30AM
Tuesday, October 8, 2024

Mozart! The Gem of European Musical Theatre by Lisa Monde

Dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the musical Mozart! Contains fragments of the exclusive interviews with the creators of the show – Michael Kunze and Sylvester Levay   The premiere of…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:30PM
Monday, October 7, 2024

Mark Rosenblatt’s Giant at the Royal Court: Provocative Drama About Anti-Semitism Is A Superb Play Of Ideas by Aleks Sierz

Roald Dahl evokes mixed feelings. He’s one of the greatest children’s storytellers, whose macabre books have sold hundreds of millions of copies worldwide; he was also anti-Semitic, and …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:39PM
Wednesday, October 2, 2024

The Perils of Parody in Forbidden Broadway: Merrily We Stole A Song by Morgan Skolnik

All around me people are laughing uproariously, slapping their knees, bursting into applause mid song and here I sit in the middle of it all utterly baffled. Forbidden Broadway: Merrily We S…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:44AM

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic