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At long last, the immersive titan Sleep No More, will"well"sleep no more. The long-running New York immersive theater piece will close this fall, pending another extension. So what will fill…
This year's Theatre Biennale (15 to 30 June), entitled, Niger and Albus (Black and White), sees directors Gianni Forte and Stefano Ricci keen " as they note in their introduction " to "open …
It is May 4, 2024, in Montreal, and I walk on Rue Bélanger as the night is approaching on this lightly colored spring day. I am about to see Wine & Halva, a production partnership betwe…
"Don't take freedom for granted!" This saying is what Helder Guimarães heard from his parents at the dinner table as they recounted stories of their oppressive past in Portugal. Born afte…
The Theatre Times wins the 2024 ATHE-ASTR Award for Excellence in Digital Scholarship from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, and the American Society for Theatre Research. The…
Sejong Center for the Performing Arts (artistic director, Sun-Woong Koh) staged the play Littoral by Lebanese-Canadian playwright Wajdi Mouawad from June 14 to June 30. This was a Seoul Thea…
In 1979 the very first French iconic rock opera " Starmania, created by Michel Berger (composer) and Luc Plamondon (librettist), premiered at the Paris Congress Centre / Le Palais des Congr�…
The European Theatre Convention (ETC) in collaboration with Renew Culture officially launched in July 2024 the ETC Theatre Green Book (ETC TGB). The sixty-nine-page, freely available documen…
Is Jordan Cheng for real? The 37-year-old actor, singer, and composer is everywhere these days. In 2023, he won two of the city's top drama awards and was nominated for two more while ad…
After Brexit, UK productions very rarely play in Italy, but Biennale theatre directors Gianni Forte and Stefano Ricci have made an exception. The final days of the Festival put center stage …
Amy Ng has a problem. The Hong Kong-raised, London-based playwright is holed up in a Causeway Bay coffee shop in early January, working on her script for a new production of August Strindber…
How do we train students for to work within landscapes that are rapidly changing and for theatre of future that does not exist yet and already is an accumulation of multiple-multi-things? In…
Alright, I'll level with you. Maligned as it is (and oh is it ever) Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1982 musical Cats is what first made me fall in love with theater. When I was five, I went to a prod…
Perhaps the 2024 production of La MaMa's Medea, under Zishan Ugurlu's direction and reimagining, is an ode to our times like Achille Mbembe's Brutalism (2024), in which he developed the conc…
To read PART I of this essay, go to this link.  The snake that Medea uses to make her potion, which is a real snake on stage, is worn by her as a necklace around her own neck " showi…
I first encountered Dmytro Ternoviy through my Worldwide Ukrainian Play Readings project. His play, On the Eve, set in the last hours before Russia launched its full-scale invasion on 24 Feb…
This is Part 2 of the interview with Dmytro Ternoviy. For Part 1, go here. Dmytro Ternoviy's answers are translated from Ukrainian into English. John Freedman: Kharkiv is one of the oldest a…
Do you ever wish you could have a say in how your city developed its land? Well, this month, New Yorkers finally can. At least, in the theoretical theatrical exercise of DIRT. The interactiv…
Invisible Lands, a two-performer act, initially presents itself as a nonverbal production with countless tiny props, almost indiscernible for the spectator seated farther away from the stage…
Everyone knows that musical is a synthetic genre in which a story is being told by means of acting, singing, and dancing. One of the main specifics in training for a musical theatre perfo…
They say everyone can be an actor. Any location can transform into a theatre stage. Yet finding a theatre, or the Miangaly theatre company, is equivalent to meeting a president in a nightclu…
Depicting an odyssey on stage is rather a challenge, especially when the main means of transport is water. Distance needs to be not only suggested, but also interpreted, and convention can r…
TESZT 2024 brings, from Zagreb Youth Theatre, Borut Å eparović's production Youth Without God, on a text written by the director and Ivana Vuković. Technology, violence, Nazism, lo…
A bitter-sweet, funny memento mori (and memento vivere, for that matter), Forte Company " Szkéné Theatre's Anybody (written by Borbély Szilárd, directed by Horváth Csaba) presents t…
An interview with Ukrainian playwright and theater-maker Dmytro Ternoviy. Dmytro Ternoviy's answers are translated from Ukrainian into English. I first encountered Dmytro Ternoviy through my…
