Yu-Chia Wei is a Taiwanese playwright whose work has earned numerous accolades. Her two plays, A Fable for Now and Mama/Popstar, won the Taiwan Literature Award and Taipei Literature Awards,…
Let us always remember the pioneers. Although there is a fair amount of relatively mainstream queer theatre today (fueled in the popular imagination by RuPaul's Drag Race on BBC television),…
Only the truth, we are told, can set us free " but there are times in love when the New Testament Gospel of John is an inadequate guide. A good example is the situation that Terence Rattigan…
In honour of playwright Jovan Sterija Popović, Sterijino pozorje was held this year for the seventieth time. In the selection curated by theatrologist and theatre critic Ana Tasić, n…
An interview with Wichi, a theatre director and actor, Athens, Greece Wichi was born in Thessaloniki. They are a director and actor, an honors graduate of the Directing Department of the Dra…
Under the artistic direction of the étoile Eleonora Abbagnato, Rome Opera House (Teatro dell'Opera di Roma) continues its curatorial approach to dance by embracing contemporary creation in …
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…
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…
For the first part of the interview go here. Â 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…
'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 disabilit…
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…
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 freel…
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, and re…
An Interview with Mr.Bajrus Mjaku " one of the most remarkable theatre character actors from Skopje, R. Macedonia. Bajrus Mjaku was born in KaÄanik, Kosovo in 1952. In the mid-1960s, he c…
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…
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 about to d…
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…
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…