Elinor Fuchs, a trailblazing theater scholar, critic, and playwright, passed away on May 28, 2024, at the age of 91. She was the author or editor of five groundbreaking books, including The …
In spite of all open-mindedness, attending family performances as an adult can be, initially at least, off-putting. There is a stigma around the themes approached, the aesthetics, and the ac…
My first thought upon entering Redemption Story at A.R.T./NY was that of boldness: I can't recall the last time I saw a director"Sarah Blush, in this case"take on the challenge of traverse s…
  Dedicated to the 35th anniversary of the musical Miss Saigon, an exclusive interview with the composer Claude-Michel Schönberg. This year the West End production of the musical Mis…
Most historic dates and events fade from view after a few years, especially as witnesses age and die. So it's hard to believe a calamity that occurred more than a century ago can still capti…
Do you speak any languages besides your mother tongue, especially as an adult learner? How do you identify yourself while speaking those languages? Let's consider English. English, a pla…
Toronto's theatre scene thrives on its multicultural identity, a modern-day Tower of Babel where diverse voices engage in continuous dialogue. Iranian-Canadian playwright Mohammad Yaghoobi o…
TiyatroTem (2001-2017) was established by Åžehsuvar AktaÅŸ (b. 1964) and AyÅŸe Selen (1955-2017) in 2000, and their first play, Lahana Sarma (Cabbage Rolls) premiered in 2001. This is …
Together with Wayne McGregor's dance piece, UniVerse: A Dark Crystal Odyssey, Romeo Castellucci's reimagining of Jean Racine's Bérénice (first staged in 1670), with Isabelle Huppert in the…
He lived for 33 years, and then he left us. He had his first professional direction in the Zrenjanin theatre, where he staged Molière's Don Juan. He directed 13 plays and started the fourte…
Solo Performers John Rwothomack and Fidaa Zidan join forces to unravel the discovery of life after political rallies and prison sentences in Lines. The full version of the article From Exile…
Amidst the bustling metropolis of London, a group of aspiring theatrical talents (Kelly Guibal, Flavia Di Saverio, Thelma Osorio Euan, Maria Luc, Hana Tamaru, Arianna Folini) took to the sta…
A new show from Trick of the Light theatre company is always something special, and Suitcase Show"presented as part of this year's New Zealand Fringe Festival"is no exception. The core of…
2024's New York City Fringe has come to an end, eighteen nights of shows enjoyable, waspish, querying, high-caliber, and searching (on occasion, all things all at once). I had the privilege …
Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) is still in the hands of Britain, the colonial power, and several migrants are coming from neighboring Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) and Nyasaland (now Mala…
The southern city of ÅŒtepoti/Dunedin has played an important role in the history of Samuel Beckett production in Aotearoa. In 1959, one of the earliest New Zealand productions of Waiting …
Juan Mayorga might have been a crime writer in another life, he loves to set up complex, menacing conceits that explore behaviour on the fringes of criminality. What constitutes right? How f…
Seeing a play you much admired five years ago for a third time isn't always sensible. Will it be as good as you remember it? I saw JaurÃa, Jordi Casanovas' verbatim play based on the case…
Europa jest wielojÄ™zyczna. Europe " as a geopolitical concept, its residents, communities, and countries " is a multilingual space where people communicate in multiple languages such as …
Milan's international multidisciplinary performance art festival FOG, featuring theatre, music, and dance, is at its seventh edition. The brainchild of the Triennale theatre's artistic direc…
An Interview with Kostas Kapodistrias " Theatre actor and director, theatre manager/founder of Theatro Tsi Zakithos, Zakynthos, Greece One of the most authentic, inspiring and human great ac…
"What kind of service do submarines provide?" asks the machine's captain, Ricky Martin. "Silent service" is the proper answer. It is nearly the dénouement of Cayenne Douglass's Maiden Voyag…
Last year I went to the dentist for a toothache and was told that somehow, to my extreme disbelief, my tooth had grown another tooth in it. Well, my dens in dente is nothing compared to Dawn…
The question of universality faces entire series of utterly new answers, but not all of them find a place or are given a form to be exhibited on stage, as it is frequently mistaken for relat…
There are a number of firsts in the new Teatro Real production triple bill that brings together Francis Poulenc's La Voix Humaine (1959), adapted from Jean Cocteau's 1930 play, and Arnold Sc…