For Part I of this review, go here. Yet again, I find myself at the edge of Amsterdam, at the theater of Likeminds in Amsterdam Noord, for my Visit #3 of Welcome to Asbestos Hall. Once mo…
It is the third day of the Holland Festival, and I make my way to what feels like the edge of Amsterdam Noord to visit Welcome to Asbestos Hall at the Likeminds stage. It is the work of this…
Jumping from one story to another or from a specific timeline to an entirely different one seems, nowadays, to be specific to our phones' world, rather than to theatre stages, but Dziewczyna…
A provincial theatre celebrates an anniversary. In the dressing room " two men: a comic and a tragedian, not on the guest list. On the table " cheap vodka, a jar of pickles. The tragedian, t…
The first new production of Mark Rosenblatt's Olivier-award-winning Giant since its London premiere in September 2024 opened in Barcelona on 5 July as part of this year's Grec festival. Acto…
"Can we just disband the Seoul Foundation for the Arts and Culture entirely and start over?" A ripple of supportive chuckles spread through the audience following this comment at a recently …
Inherited Voices: A Theatre of Borrowed Authority Recently, I've found myself drawn to a popular podcast on YouTube where an Iraqi theatre director interviews artists, writers, and intellect…
Is there such a thing as the seven-year itch? Named after Billy Wilder's 1955 comedy, which starred Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell, in which a psychiatrist argues that almost all men need to h…
To read PART I of this report, go to this link. Â Two "in yr face" Tragedies: Double Bill It is only fitting that ancient tragedy, pioneer of the dramatic exploration of death, defeat, tr…
We each owe a Death Johannes von Tepl, Death and the Ploughman [Â Der Ackermann und der Tod, 1401Â ] Â One festival I regularly attend and truly enjoy is the Varna Summer Internationa…
Blind Runner, the latest play by Amir Reza Koohestani, was performed from January 4 to 24, 2025, at St. Ann's Warehouse in New York. A 60-minute production by Mehr Theatre Group, may seem si…
Germany's theatre landscape is very rich indeed. Many cities have publicly owned and funded buildings with their own resident companies, other cities receive, in their local theatre building…
Feng Lu's "L'histoire d'un Accident", presented in Avignon 2025, offers a layered exploration of theatrical space inspired by Henri Lefebvre's theory of spatial production. The play unfolds …
In 2025, the UK Chinese Opera Association marks its 10th anniversary, celebrating a decade of bridging tradition and innovation in Chinese opera. Founded by Joanna Zenghui Qiu, a former perf…
Dedicated to the 145th anniversary of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera "The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty." The creative duo of librettist William S. Gilbert and composer Arth…
Seventeen productions, including nine premieres, from Japan, Ukraine, the UK, Spain, and Poland, will be showcased as part of the 29th International Shakespeare Festival in GdaÅ„sk, runni…
"The homeland is not only a piece of land, it's a memory, it's love, it's pain" is a line of dialogue in the play Melody of the Rainy City by a renowned contemporary Iranian playwright, Akba…
Dramaturgy is all about being able to facilitate a line of communication between artists and audience. The full version of the article Annie Jin Wang on Opera Dramaturgy is available on The …
Dedicated to the 40th Anniversary of World Rock Day and the 71st Anniversary of World Rock and Roll Day. Â Â April 13th and July 13th " are the two dates of annual holidays that are di…
George Bernard Shaw is the supreme example of old writing. Maddeningly verbose, eye-poppingly articulate and self-consciously progressive, his work is so Edwardian that any revival runs the …
Step into the opulent 1880s New York evoked by The Gilded Age, Julian Fellowes' Emmy-winning HBO Original drama. Now in its third season, which premiered in late June 2025 on HBO and Max, th…
Imagine Ibsen's A Doll's House, staged as a sort of salon game, in a real couple's home serving as a set for the classic drama of duty versus love. Fix+Foxy's innovative production, conceive…
In New York City, the window between May and June signals the arrival of Tony Awards season. Smaller venues often avoid launching new productions during this time, knowing that critics are u…
Juan Mayorga's Los yugoslavos [The Yugoslavs] is, to-date, the only one of the acclaimed Spanish playwright's plays to have opened in translation. First performed at Belgrade's Bitef Teatar …
The World Sinophone Drama Competition for Young Playwrights is the largest playwriting contest in the Chinese-speaking world. Open to playwrights aged 18 to 36, it accepts plays written in e…