Tuesday, April 23, 2024

“Without a State:” a Collision Between Migration and the Perpetual Pursuit of Identity and Belonging by Tawanda Mupatsi

Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) is still in the hands of Britain, the colonial power, and several migrants are coming from neighboring Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) and Nyasaland (now Mala…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:37AM
Friday, April 19, 2024

“That Perfect Dark”: Samuel Beckett’s “Company” in Dunedin by David O'Donnell

The southern city of Ōtepoti/Dunedin has played an important role in the history of Samuel Beckett production in Aotearoa. In 1959, one of the earliest New Zealand productions of Waiting fo…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:02AM
Friday, April 12, 2024

Anything Can Be Bought If The Price Is Right: Juan Mayorga’s “La Colección” (The Collection) by Maria Delgado

Juan Mayorga might have been a crime writer in another life, he loves to set up complex, menacing conceits that explore behaviour on the fringes of criminality. What constitutes right? How f…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:21AM
Tuesday, April 9, 2024

Staging Justice: Miguel del Arco revisits Jordi Casanovas’ “Jauría” and the case of “la manada” (the wolfpack) by Maria Delgado

Seeing a play you much admired five years ago for a third time isn’t always sensible. Will it be as good as you remember it? I saw Jauría, Jordi Casanovas’ verbatim play based on the ca…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:07AM
Monday, April 8, 2024

Towards New Theatre in Europe: What Roles Can Multilingual Dramaturgies Play in Europe’s Future(s)? by Kasia Lech

Europa jest wielojęzyczna. Europe – as a geopolitical concept, its residents, communities, and countries – is a multilingual space where people communicate in multiple languages such as…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:55AM
Sunday, April 7, 2024

Milan’s FOG Festival  by Margaret Rose

Milan’s international multidisciplinary performance art festival FOG, featuring theatre, music, and dance, is at its seventh edition. The brainchild of the Triennale theatre’s artistic d…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:47PM
Thursday, April 4, 2024

Between The REMBELIO OF POPOLARI (“Omilies”, Carnevals, Anonymous Poets) And No Stable Funding by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar

An Interview with Kostas Kapodistrias – Theatre actor and director, theatre manager/founder of Theatro Tsi Zakithos, Zakynthos, Greece One of the most authentic, inspiring and human great …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:21AM
Tuesday, April 2, 2024

The Silent Service of Women: Cayenne Douglass’s “Maiden Voyage” at The Flea by Rhiannon Ling

“What kind of service do submarines provide?” asks the machine’s captain, Ricky Martin. “Silent service” is the proper answer. It is nearly the dénouement of Cayenne Douglass’s …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:16AM
Sunday, March 31, 2024

“Teeth” Bites Back Against Purity Culture: On Michael R. Jackson and Anna K. Jacob’s Musical by Morgan Skolnik

Last year I went to the dentist for a toothache and was told that somehow, to my extreme disbelief, my tooth had grown another tooth in it. Well, my dens in dente is nothing compared to Dawn…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:17AM
Monday, March 25, 2024

“I Killed My Mother/It Wasn’t My Fault.” Which Way Does One Get to Come-of-Age? by Teodora Medeleanu

The question of universality faces entire series of utterly new answers, but not all of them find a place or are given a form to be exhibited on stage, as it is frequently mistaken for relat…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:39AM

A Triple Bill on Desire and its Discontents: “La Voix Humaine”, “Erwartung” and Something in Between at Madrid’s Teatro Real by Maria Delgado

There are a number of firsts in the new Teatro Real production triple bill that brings together Francis Poulenc’s La Voix Humaine (1959), adapted from Jean Cocteau’s 1930 play, and Arnol…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:36AM

Alfredo Sanzol Stages Lorca’s “The House of Bernarda Alba”: Simmering Passions, Solitude and Surveillance by Maria Delgado

The 2023/2024 season has proved the year of Bernarda Albas. Lorca’s 1936 drama was completed only a few months before his death, as Spain was edging closer to civic conflict. Its razor-sha…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:33AM
Friday, March 22, 2024

“Haywire:” An Unsettling Account On Mental Health Issues by Tawanda Mupatsi

When Chenura Trust a Zimbabwean media company announced that they were working on a theatrical performance titled Haywire which was going to be centered around mental health issues, initial …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:37PM

“ANGELA (a Strange Loop)”: The Wild and Wonderful World of Susanne Kennedy by Maria Delgado

Susanne Kennedy doesn’t do things by half. When she creates a world, it has its own logic, its own rules, its own ethos. It’s not a world of participation but one where the audience are …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:34PM
Thursday, March 21, 2024

Re-imagining the City through Performance: “The Drifting Room”, Created and Performed by Stephen Bain by David O'Donnell

The Drifting Room, created and performed by Stephen Bain. The Performance Arcade 2024, Te-Whanganui-A-Tara Wellington waterfront, 22-25 February 2024. What if the theatre—that fixed archit…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 06:32PM

Find Your Voice, Loud and Clear: Musical “Il Tenore” Review by Hansol Oh

It is 1930s Kyeongseong (what Seoul was called during the Japanese occupation), and the colonial Japanese government is enforcing a Japanese-only policy to bolster the forced assimilation of…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:37PM

Stage to Screen: Támara Torres on “Orange Is The New Black,” Netflix Shaping Streaming by Alexander Fatouros

American actress of beauty and talent, Támara Torres is a legend of Orange is the New Black, the Netflix comedy-drama television series created by Jenji Kohan. Her portrayal of Emily “Wee…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:29AM
Monday, March 18, 2024

“The Bald Soprano,” French Absurd Theater Becomes a German Contemporary Opera Buffa by Antonio Hernández Nieto

There are some myths about the opera that are not true. Firstly, that young people do not like opera. Secondly, opera audiences hate contemporary operas. If you think that both statements ar…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:49AM
Thursday, March 14, 2024

Tim Price’s “Nye” at the National Theatre: A Fun Life of the Creator of the National Health Service by Aleks Sierz

For me, this is the most emotional show on the London stage. Why’s that? Because it’s about Nye Bevan, who as Minister of Health in the postwar socialist Labour government set up the Nat…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 06:11PM
Thursday, March 7, 2024

“This Is Our Home” – Online Theatre Three Years Later by Teodora Medeleanu

The performance follows four women in different parts of Ukraine, at various distances from the frontline and allows them to tell their pre and post-February 2022 stories. Abrupt opening? It…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:35AM
Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Lucy Kirkwood’s “The Human Body” at the Donmar Warehouse: Twin Tales of Illicit Love and the Founding of the National Health Service by Aleks Sierz

It’s election year so the gaze of British theatre turns towards the National Health Service. But, no, this month’s plays do not examine the parlous state of doctors and hospitals today, …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:36AM
Monday, March 4, 2024

Marius von Mayenburg’s Nachtland at the Young Vic: Satire on Art and Anti-Semitism Is Both Absurdist and Unsettling by Aleks Sierz

We’ve all heard of the metaphorical madwoman in the attic, but what about the symbolic unexploded bomb under the roof, tucked away among the junk, accumulating dust and lying quietly undis…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:12PM
Friday, March 1, 2024

Ascanio Celestini’s “Rumba. The Donkey and the Ox” by Margaret Rose

Writer, actor, and director Ascanio Celestini is one of Italy’s most celebrated theatrical storytellers, a genre much loved by Italian audiences of all ages. For me, Dario Fo was the undis…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:39AM
Thursday, February 29, 2024

Making Theatre-Making in Europe More Equal: Reflection on Creative Europe and Practical Difficulties from Multilingual Perspectives by Jeune Théâtre Européen Jeunes Publics

The Jeune Théâtre Européen Jeunes Publics (Young European Theatre for Young Audiences) (JTEJP) project was a 2022-23 pilot experience of designing, creating, and performing prototypes of …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:42AM
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Multilingual Theatre For/With Young Audiences: On the Jeune Théâtre Européen Jeunes Publics Project by Kasia Lech

The growing levels of migration results in an increasing number of children across Europe growing up in multilingual families (Armon-Lotem and Jong de 1), in which they may or may not share …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:55PM
Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Peter Sellars’ “Beatrice di Tenda”: Freedom, Defiance, and Tyranny by Maria Delgado

Vincenzo Bellini’s penultimate opera, Beatrice di Tenda, rests between two more frequently performed works, Norma (1831) and I puritani (1835) – the latter his eleventh and final opera…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:23AM
Monday, February 26, 2024

Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People at the Duke of York’s Theatre: Thomas Ostermeier’s West End Debut Has Starry Cast And Punk Aesthetics by Aleks Sierz

It’s a sign of the times that German director Thomas Ostermeier’s West End debut is his production of An Enemy of the People, which has been rep at his Schaubühne theatre for over a dec…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:27AM
Saturday, February 24, 2024

Becoming a Citizen Dramaturg by Liv Lanteri

What is a citizen-dramaturg? Could I study it at a university? Is it merely a state of mind? Would I need a certificate to practice? Until I participated in the 2023 Kennedy Center American …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:49AM
Thursday, February 22, 2024

Musical “Evita”: 45 Years Later by Lisa Monde

Tim Rice became interested in the biography of Eva Perón – the wife of the famous dictator Juan Perón – in the early 70s of the past century. Most of the musical’s book, Tim wrote wh…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:45PM
Monday, February 19, 2024

Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray” at the Theatre Royal Haymarket by Mert Dilek

A solo performance in theatre may often trap us inside a single dramatic character, taking us deep into their interiority. Or it may zigzag feverishly between an astounding range of figures …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:39AM
Sunday, February 18, 2024

Neurodivergent New Play Series Resumes Schedule for 2024 by Jenna Lourenco

This post was written by Jenna Lourenco. The views expressed here belong to the author and do not necessarily reflect our views and opinions. The full version of the article Neurodivergent N…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:46AM

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards