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. …
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 …
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…
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 March 28…
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 …
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 Gian…
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 Soho …
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, maybe in…
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 documen…
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 club,…
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 Theat…
Turkish writer, theatre critic, and academic Zehra Ä°pÅŸiroÄŸlu's book Woman Plays features three theatre plays"Fathers, Uncles, and Others, Confrontation, and The Prison of Masculinit…
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 o…
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 Theatre…
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 own…
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 cardi…
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 lite…
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 is pe…
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…
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 S…
In November 2024, the world premiere of a new musical by composer Iván MacÃas, The Pillars of the Earth, took place at the Teatro EDP Gran VÃa in Madrid. The book, written by …
In February I caught Antonio Syxty's staging of Romeo e Giulietta (Romeo and Juliet) at Milan's Leonardo Theatre in a production by Manifatture Teatrali Milanesi. Syxty's interpretatio…
But a woman is a changeling, always shifting shape Just when you think you have it figured out Something new begins to take …I am no mother, I am no bride, I am King. " Florence + The Mach…
How long would you wait for your soulmate? In "The Demon Lover", a short story by Elizabeth Bowen, published in 1945, a young couple make a passionate vow during the first world war. When he…
Rarely have I spent such an intense ninety minutes watching a show, as I did the other evening at Milan's Franco Parenti theatre. From start to finish French dramatist Nicolas Bedos's Le voy…