Friday, December 13, 2024

(LA)HORDE’s Flash Mob Revolution by Ilinca Todoruţ

The enthusiastic applause and standing ovations received by Room with a View from the large audience filling the spacious proscenium hall of the ROHM Theatre in Kyoto paid tribute to the art…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:45AM
Thursday, December 12, 2024

Melati Suryodarmo and Alessandro Sciarroni Moving Within Patriarchy by Ilinca Todoruţ

Indonesian performance artist Melati Suryodarmo and Italian choreographer Alessandro Sciarroni don’t seem to have much in common beyond their shared success on the international artistic s…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:58AM
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

“We Live in Cairo”-Off-Broadway by Heather Waters

We Live in Cairo, written by The Lazours, is a historical musical set in Egypt during the Arab Spring. Directed by Taibi Magar, it ran at the New York Theatre Workshop from October 9 to Nove…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:05PM
Monday, December 9, 2024

“DRAG: The Musical.” An exclusive interview with Alaska Thunderfuck by Lisa Monde

One of the main achievements of DRAG: The Musical, which premiered at the New World Stages in New York, is that it redefined the place of drag queens in the narrative. If in the famous Broad…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:04PM

Big Bang Professional Week, Temporada Alta Fights Against ‘Mierda Bonita’ by Antonio Hernández Nieto

Mierda bonita, or beautiful shit in English, is the term used in La luz de un lago/The light of a lake, the new play by El Conde de Torrefiel whose Spanish premier was in Temporada Alta Fest…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:43PM
Thursday, December 5, 2024

On Kyoto Experiment’s Curatorial Vision by Ilinca Todoruţ

The interdisciplinary theatre, dance, and performance art festival Kyoto Experiment (KEX) wowed me with the thoughtfulness of its curatorial vision. The three co-artistic directors—Yoko Ka…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:13AM
Wednesday, December 4, 2024

Peter J. Chelkowski: A Life of Scholarship And Cultural Exchange by Milad Azarm

Milad Azarm in conversation with Mohammadreza Khaki Peter J. Chelkowski, an esteemed scholar and professor emeritus at New York University, devoted his life to enriching the understanding of…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:14AM
Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Six Against Turkey – we are all a little Turkish by Verity Healey

Six Against Turkey, at The Kosovo Albania Showcase, is a new satire from playwright Jeton Neziraj and director and wife collaborator Blerta Neziraj. It explores the main actors in Turkey’…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:09PM

Fruiting Body: What Mushroom-To-Human Conversations Reveal In A New Off-Broadway Play by Victoria Zavyalova

How do you explain the concept of childbirth to an alien intelligence, such as that of fungi? Are our family — and others — actually part of a colony that extends beyond us? Communicatin…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:07PM
Monday, December 2, 2024

“Dear Shameless Death – Dirmit” by Tiyatro Hemhâl: A Gift of Resistance by Gonca Yalçın

Based on a well-loved Turkish novel by Latife Tekin, Dear Shameless Death – Dirmit by Tiyatro Hemhâl is a one-woman play adapted to the stage by Nezaket Erden and Hakan Emre Ünal. It is …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:07PM
Wednesday, November 27, 2024

The Revolutionary Spirit is Alive in “We Live in Cairo” by Morgan Skolnik

Though many people rushed to them post election, the musical of our political moment is not “Suffs”, nor is it “Ragtime”. It is, for better or worse, New York Theatre Workshop’s �…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:17PM
Sunday, November 24, 2024

The Images of Me: 2024 Prologue New Play Festival by Kuan-Ting Lin

Staged readings are a liminal period for new plays in development. For rough ideas, they can be a lab where writings go through trial and error; for mature works, they can be a springboard t…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:34PM
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

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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 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic
TBA: Ragtime