How is the German State Theatre different from other Romanian public theatres? Last year, when TimiÈ™oara was the European Capital of Culture, international visitors were very surprised t…
The 6th biennial Singapore Literature Festival is held in New York City on October 19 and 20, 2024. Under the title "Living Adaptations," the festival will spotlight writing and directing fo…
Dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the musical Mozart! Contains fragments of the exclusive interviews with the creators of the show " Michael Kunze and Sylvester Levay  The premiere of…
Roald Dahl evokes mixed feelings. He's one of the greatest children's storytellers, whose macabre books have sold hundreds of millions of copies worldwide; he was also anti-Semitic, and used…
All around me people are laughing uproariously, slapping their knees, bursting into applause mid song and here I sit in the middle of it all utterly baffled. Forbidden Broadway: Merrily We S…
Pari Saberi, an influential Iranian playwright, director, novelist, translator, and actress, was born into a cultured family in 1932 in Kerman, Iran. Her early exposure to art and literature…
For many Iranians, the contemporary history of the country is divided into before and after September 16, 2022, the day Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old young woman, was killed in the custody of t…
To read PART I of this interview, go to this link. For Part II, click here. All the bad ones are afraid of sleep The biblical metaphor, commonly known in Poland, about evil that fears th…
To read PART I of this interview, go to this link. For Part III, click here. Â Men " rulers of destiny It might seem that such an expressive image of women relegates male characters to th…
It might seem that the indefinitely prolonged Covid epidemic, which contributed to the postponement of the premiere of Picnic at Hanging Rock, overshadowed the topicality of the problems of …
To read PART I of this interview, go to this link.  Hayel Ali Al-Mathabi: In light of this technological storm that theater faces, like all forms of the arts and aspects of life in g…
Marina Hanganu is a theatre director, cultural manager and researcher exploring the intersection of art and technology from a practical and theoretical perspective. She holds a PhD in Theatr…
Although the idea of deporting people to Rwanda as a punishment is now, following the defeat of the Tories in this year's General Election, off the political agenda, the way we as a society …
Awatif Naeem is an award-winning TV and theatre actress, director, playwright, and critic. She previously served as the vice president of the Iraqi Artists Syndicate. She was born in Baghdad…
Theatre for broadly understood young audiences (0-16 years) is one of the most important cultural practices. It is future-focused and based on human rights, specifically, the right to perfor…
In Poland, the war is no longer just the national memory and has been present in our everyday life for more than two years now. Its impact on everyday life and the shape of many seemingly st…
Adultery is the great staple of modern British playwriting. The anguish of marriage, and the temptations of infidelity run like a red thread from John Osborrne's Look Back in Anger, via Haro…
Introduction Gdzie Jest Tata? (Where is Daddy?) as seen at the Review of New Theatre for Children in WrocÅ‚aw is a show produced by Everest Foundation, written by Jan Naturski, directed b…
This summer, Berlin's Volksbühne presented The Visitors, a new work by the choreographer Constanza Macras. The piece brings together Berlin-based dance company Dorky Park and young South Af…
The story about Koko the gorilla who learns sign language has been well documented in scientific research and films such as Koko: A talking Gorilla (1978), or Koko: The Gorilla Who Talks To …
Every year at the Edinburgh Fringe, Paines Plough, a UK touring company specialised in commissioning and developing new writing, brings a cluster of contemporary plays to the Roundabout, loc…
Creating theatre for the very young " one that can hold their attention, stimulate the right impulses, and convey just values " seems to be a huge challenge. Among the events of the fourth d…
The play Drapando, czyli Atak ZamszaÅ‚ego Starucha (Drapando, or the attack of the mossy old man) was presented at the 7th Review of New Theatre for Children. It was directed by Zofia Pin…
Púpätko is a beautiful show where sensory play meets nature. The show, aimed at children of 6 months through 3 years, provides a safe space to explore the different stimuli of nature.…
New plays can derive from many sources: a vivid imagination, novels, diaries, real-life episodes, autobiography, biography and history. Elena Mazzon's The Popess, drawing on the real-life fi…