The Finborough Theatre is one of the smallest in London, yet it has a great track record in selecting new plays. With room for barely 50 spectators, its budget is tiny, but its vibe is treme…
The stage, designed by Thomas Rupert, was vast and predominantly empty, the floor mainly even and sloping up at the very back. The walls were painted in shades of grey, as were the matching …
Juan Mayorga began writing El jardín quemado (The Scorched Garden) in 1996, completing it the following year. Close to thirty years on, Mayorga directs it at Madrid’s Teatro de la Abadía…
When Florian Battermann founded the Komödie am Altstadtmarkt in Braunschweig in 2003 at the age of 30, it was then the most recent addition to the boulevard comedy theatre scene in Germany.…
On a cold Saturday afternoon this past winter, retired director Laura Jones drove me around the small town of Fort Collins, Colorado. Jones, who was the subject of a piece I wrote for TheThe…
An Interview with Mr. Ivica Matičević, president of the Fellowship Miroslav Krleza Fund, literary historian, literary critic, comparatist, editor (Zagreb, Croatia) Ivica Matičević (bo…
In his biography of Federico García Lorca, Ian Gibson observes that the writer’s assassination took place on the moonless night of the 18th August — a fact that acquires particular sign…
Spirit and the Dust is a play by American dramatist Noah Haidle. The world premiere of the play, in its translation into German by Barbara Christ, took place on 27th February 2026 at Deutsch…
American women of a certain vintage can be sorted into haves and have-nots based on possession of a single commodity: an American Girl doll. Just whisper the name Samantha Parkington to an e…
Rocks and rolling, in a most literal sense, is probably the closest it gets to describing the visual idiom of Peeping Tom’s 2025 offering Chroniques. The Belgian dance company, established…
Annie Baker’s Circle Mirror Transformation is currently enjoying a highly acclaimed tour to major Italian theatres. The play made its debut in an Off-Broadway production in 2009, after whi…
An Interview with Žaneta Vangeli, visual artist, professor, and set designer for the theatre performances of the late theatre director Oliver Micevski (Lolita, Hands Around, Norway.today, T…
Belarus Free Theatre, which currently operates in exile in London, recently presented its production KS6: Small Forward for a three-night run at Théâtre Les Abbesses from May 11–13. Dire…
The latest production in Dirk Böhling’s inaugural season as artistic director of the Packhaustheater is a further new play he wrote and directed about a famous local person: Paula Moderso…
Dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the world premiere The idea for the musical Chess belongs to the British author, lyricist, and dramatist Tim Rice. The events of the Cuban Missile Crisis…
There was something almost suspiciously neat about the programming. MİTEM opened with Richard III and closed with Richard III. On paper, that sounds like a clever curatorial decision, maybe…
An Interview with Lenerson Polonini, theatre director (Companhia Nova de Teatro, Sau Paulo, Brazil). Lenerson Polonini is a dynamic theater director based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. With a rich a…
Tove Ditlevsen was a Danish working-class poet, novelist and feminist icon. Her memoir The Copenhagen Trilogy was initially published in separate parts. Childhood and Youth came out in 1967 …
Nikolai Kolyada’s The Cherry Orchard begins after loss has already become the furniture of the world. In the Witkacy Theatre’s Polish-language production, presented at MİTEM, the Madác…
There are productions that do not so much tell a biography as listen to it and Sardar Tagirovsky’s Broken Melody, produced by the Almetyevsk Tatar State Drama Theater, belongs to that rare…
Marta Górnicka’s choral theatre has been wowing Europe for the last 15 years. At the age of 51, she is already a holder of major honorary professorships and lifetime achievement awards �…
Nina Plavanjac’s The Aquarium, produced by the Subotica National Theatre in Serbia and presented within the Hungary-Serbian Cultural Season at MİTEM, is a chamber work about inheritance �…
Davide Iodice’s Pinocchio. What Is a Person?, created with Scuola Elementare del Teatro / Conservatorio Popolare per le Arti della Scena and presented by Teatro di Napoli and Interno 5, is…
Ferdinand von Schirach was born in 1964, studied law and became a noted criminal defense lawyer. He turned his extensive experience into fiction with a collection of novels, screenplays and …
What if the guilt one feels on the death row is not for what he has (allegedly) done? The Fear of 13, written by Lindsey Ferrentino, and directed by David Cromer, opened on Broadway this Apr…