Friday, May 23, 2025

Ubu Is The Symbol Of Rebellion Tyranny And Stupidity/Budget Cuts In Culture – A Serious Threat by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar

An Interview with Chantal Boiron, editor-in-chief for UBU Scenes d`Europe/European Stages, Paris, France. UBU European Stages is a bilingual (French/English) magazine created in 1996, UBU Sc…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 06:16AM
Sunday, May 18, 2025

”The Village”, Revolver Copenhagen by Duška Radosavljević

There is a big screen hanging above the stage on which four faces in four individual frames are apparently chatting to each other as we walk in. At the same time two other persons are busyin…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:06PM
Friday, May 16, 2025

“The Pillars of the Earth”: Bestseller and Musical. An Exclusive Interview with Ken Follett. Part II by Lisa Monde

For the first part of the interview go here.   From the earliest musicals, one can trace the creators’ desire to look for ideas for the story among literary works. There are more than a h…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:20PM
Thursday, May 15, 2025

“Hamlet”, Teatro La Plaza, Barbican by Duška Radosavljević

’To be or not to be’, that is a question with a completely new ring to it in Teatro La Plaza’s production performed by eight actors and actresses with Down’s syndrome and cognitive d…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:50AM
Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Catharsis in the Eleventh Row: The Aesthetics of Truth on Stage and an Audience That Is Not Afraid of the Dark by Emilija Kvočka

The time of frozen catharsis is now. But what kind of theatre refuses purification? Theatre performances and projects today often ignore the audience as a moral judge. However, this is almos…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:55AM

“Rhinoceros”, The Almeida Theatre by Duška Radosavljević

This Guardian pick of the year 2025 recently closed at London’s Almeida theatre, but it is definitely worth anthologizing for prosperity. I hope this also gives me the licence to write fre…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:48AM
Saturday, May 10, 2025

The Theater of Metaverse by Hayel Ali Al-Mathabi

Introduction It seems that the mission of the father of arts, “theatre”, as well as all forms of literature, was not always only to produce pleasure, describe life and its aesthetics, an…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:48AM
Friday, May 9, 2025

Do Not Get Your Acting Degree So That You Can Become Part Of The Payroll, Only To Satisfy Your Appetites by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar

An Interview with Mr.Bajrus Mjaku – one of the most remarkable theatre character actors from Skopje, R. Macedonia. Bajrus Mjaku was born in Kačanik, Kosovo in 1952. In the mid-1960s, he c…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:12PM
Thursday, May 8, 2025

A “Self-Portrait” By Davide Enia by Margaret Rose

Playwright, actor, director and novelist Davide Enia had his first success as a theatrical storyteller in 2002 with his one person play, Italy Brazil 3 to 2, which he wrote, performed and di…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:01AM
Wednesday, May 7, 2025

“The Cherry Orchard” By Benedict Andrews: A Stark Mirror For A Collapsing Present by Victoria Zavyalova

Benedict Andrews’ reinvention of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard at St. Ann’s Warehouse raises the devastating question of our era: When change comes, what becomes of the world we’re ab…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:01AM
Friday, May 2, 2025

Black and White. Aleksandr Volodin’s “Five Evenings,” directed by Eduard Tolokonnikov, produced by Polina Belkina, in New York City (March 20-30 by Vassili Schedrin

Soviet nonconformist art was emerged in the 1950s when artists dared to transcend the official canon of Socialist realism which prescribed rigid themes, genres, and design. The reds and yell…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:49AM
Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Conor McPherson’s The Brightening Air at the Old Vic: Wonderfully Numinous And Eccentric Account Of Family Life In 1980s Rural Ireland by Aleks Sierz

Theatre needs mystery. In the darkened auditorium, with a crowd of strangers sharing your experience, it is possible to believe in anything you see on the stage: ghosts, miracles and magic. …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 06:51AM
Friday, April 25, 2025

A Play About Abortion – “Hypothetıcal Baby” by Berna Ataoğlu

Hypothetical Baby is a one-woman show written and performed by Rachel Cairns, centered on her own abortion experience. The play combines elements of documentary and narrative theatre. It is …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:40AM
Thursday, April 24, 2025

Five Young Performance Artists Unravel the Meaning of Tradition: A Review of “Practicing Freedom” by Kyungjin Jo

In the intimate setting of a small black box theatre, audience members find themselves not in the fixed, sterile rows of traditional theatre seats but cozily relaxing in camping chairs arran…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:18AM
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Interview with Michael Salvatore Commendatore, Projection Designer for Disney’s Frozen at Children’s Theatre Company by Walter Byongsok Chon

This is a video interview with Michael Salvatore Commendatore, projection designer for Disney’s Frozen at Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The interview date is Marc…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 06:57AM
Sunday, April 20, 2025

Queer Surrealism in Two Sisters Find a Box of Lesbian Erotica in the Woods by Morgan Skolnik

Space Lesbians! Portals! Psychic Sisters! Oh my! These are just some of the elements introduced in the dizzying, sprawling, rollercoaster of a show that is Two Sisters Find a Box of Lesbian …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:51PM
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

“Shards of Chaotic Memory in Multicoloured Ink” by Margaret Rose

At Milan’s Franco Parenti theatre, Shards of Chaotic Memory in Multicoloured Ink (Schegge di memoria disordinata a inchiostro policromo) runs from 20 March to 13 April. This new play by Gi…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:34PM
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Julia Grogan’s Playfight at the Soho Theatre: Superbly Punchy Teen Drama That Electrifies The Senses And Engages The Emotions by Aleks Sierz

Coming of age stories are more or less all the same. But what distinguishes Julia Grogan’s Playfight, which was first staged at the Edinburgh Festival last year, and is now at London’s S…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:33PM
Saturday, April 12, 2025

Uncle Actor by Jonathan Kalb

Andrew Scott’s Vanya—a solo show in which he plays all the roles in Anton Chekhov’s classic play—is one of the most extraordinary acting performances I’ve seen. Certainly this year…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:01AM
Friday, April 11, 2025

Robert Icke’s Manhunt at the Royal Court Theatre: Terrifyingly Powerful Account Of Toxic Masculinity And Murderous Rage by Aleks Sierz

Are we really in “a new era of male anger, societal discontent and rage”? This is what Royal Court artistic director David Byrne claims in the programme of Manhunt, Robert Icke’s new d…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:26PM
Monday, April 7, 2025

“Liberation.” Roundabout Theatre. Look Back to Know Where You Are by Cristina Modreanu

Did you knit your scarf? A woman asked me while we were waiting in the line for the restroom. No! I wish I could, but I don’t know how to knit, I answered. You should join the knitting clu…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:25AM
Sunday, April 6, 2025

Self-Ish Dramaturgy: Personal Practice At The Kennedy Center College Theatre Festival by Aysha Zackria

I’m Aysha Zackria. I’m a 23 year old Queer Pakistani-American woman living in D.C. Through my experiences at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival and the Eugene O’Neill…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:23AM
Thursday, April 3, 2025

Violence Is Not Fate. Change Is Possible by Berna Ataoğlu

Turkish writer, theatre critic, and academic Zehra İpşiroğlu’s book Woman Plays features three theatre plays—Fathers, Uncles, and Others, Confrontation, and The Prison of Masculinity�…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:32AM
Wednesday, April 2, 2025

The Beauty of Cultural Specificity in “Bubble Schmeisis” by Morgan Skolnik

The room is thick with steam (ok, it’s smoke machine smoke), an accordion and clarinet cycle through tunes that are joyfully melancholic, or perhaps melancholically joyful, in the way that…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:31AM

I Am Not Afraid For The Future Of The Theatre by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar

An Interview with Ms. Zeljka Turcinovic – dramaturg, editor of magazines: Croatian Theatre and Dance Magazine – Kretanja/ Movements, head of Croatian ITI Center, selector of Croatian The…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:21AM
Friday, March 28, 2025

Chris Fung’s “The Society for New Cuisine” at Omnibus Theatre: Exceptionally Powerful Monologue About Grief And Mental Torment by Aleks Sierz

Anxiety. Apprehension. Angst even. Yes, that’s the feeling that rises in me as I come into the auditorium of Omnibus Theatre, in Clapham, south London, to watch Chris Fung perform in his o…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:48PM
Thursday, March 27, 2025

The Rebellious Power of “Liberation” at Roundabout Theatre Company by Morgan Skolnik

Much like the women it centers on, Roundabout Theatre Company’s Liberation is rebellious and not just because it features nudity! Mainly I was struck by its violation of writing’s most c…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:47PM
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Theatre “Haunts” People by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar

An Interview with Mr. Horia Gârbea – Playwright, dramaturg, translator, Bucaresti, Romania Horia Gârbea – Born 1962 in Bucharest, Romania. Civil engineer, PhD. Many of Gârbea`s litera…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:18AM
Friday, March 21, 2025

Nikoletta Soumelidis’s Spent at the Old Red Lion Theatre: Intriguing And Suggestive Exploration Of Gender Roles by Aleks Sierz

One of the joys of contemporary playwriting is its openness to flexible casting. In Ruby Thomas’s 2019 play Either, for example, there are two lovers — denoted as A and B — whose story…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:30PM
Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Getting To an Emotional Truth With Padraic Lillis by Marcina Zaccaria

Getting to the truth - the emotional truth and understanding.  I think emotion more than ideology.  It resonates with us is how we feel. I can understand that we can be in conflict, I hav…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:20PM
Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Brave New Theatrical World or One Flew Over the 21st Century’s Cuckoo’s Nest?: “Nexxt” by Emilija Kvočka

The theatrical kamikaze that destroys all the mechanisms of the world and itself—that is, theatre as such—is the performance Nexxt, directed by András Urban, which premiered at the Novi…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:34AM

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Nov 17, 2024: Elf - Marquis 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