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"The life of man to represent, And turn it all to ridicule, Wit did a puppet-show invent…",- Anglo-Irish writer-satirist, essayist, philosopher, poet, owner of one of the sharpest feathers…
This is the third of a series of articles to discuss the Dialogue of Civilizations theater education program. The focus this time is to delineate its progression from an idea Vahdat Yeganeh …
Playwright Polly Stenham had a meteoric rise with this play, her award-winning 2007 debut which she wrote aged 19 and whose original Royal Court cast featured Lyndsay Duncan and Matt Smit…
At the University of Pretoria, South Africa's Student Gallery, I was met with the open space of the gallery floor with the white walls adorned with the framed photographs of one of South Afr…
It is easy to forget that when Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest was first written and performed in February 1895, Ibsen's A Doll's House was already 16 years old. Both plays,…
Budapest is becoming a vibrant place and proving highly attractive to theatre lovers. All the flags of the world gather here, inspired by the energy and life-giving power of theatre. Surpris…
A long-running immersive horror production returns to New York with 'Nightmare Dollhouse,' exploring a surprisingly popular fear.
The full version of the article A Performance of Pediophobi…
Edinburgh in August is a kind of Mecca for theatergoers around the world. It is due to its International Festival and the Fringe that spread theater all around the city. Almost any place cou…
Up to the present moment a debate has been going on " whether the demon-barber of Fleet Street had a real-life prototype. For the very first time, a character under the name of Sweeney Todd …
Androids no longer dream of electric sheep " instead they inhabit our dreams. Whether it is novels such as Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun or Ian McEwan's Machines Like Me, or films like …
Grammy winner Renée Fleming recently appeared in the two-part immersive opera series Cities That Sing directed by François-René Martin and produced by Tripp Hornick and Elmar Kruse. As …
In 2019, I sat in the balcony of the Helen Hayes Theatre. My social media circles had been abuzz over the show I was about to see: What the Constitution Means to Me by Heidi Schreck. There w…
In the Lilla scenen of Uppsala Stadsteater (City Theatre), a haunting echo of the past emerged, meticulously stitched from the pages of Stig Dagerman's raw recounting of post-war Germany, Ge…
Nobodies who kill somebodies: let's make a list. Okay, there's Lee Harvey Oswald (JFK), James Earl Ray (MLK) and Mark Chapman (John Lennon). But what about the man who shot Mahatma Gandhi? W…
It has become common practice to spend time on social networks at certain hours of the day, because these platforms, besides having many advantages, give us the chance to follow the latest n…
When it comes to Wild Home: An American Odyssey, the project is best-described by its subtitle. The journey began in 2018, when co-creators Notch Theatre Company and Jessica Kahkoska initiat…
Remember what a first date feels like? Awkward. Exciting. Awkward. Intriguing. Awkward. Difficult. Yes, it's a mixture of emotions, often between the desire to be liked and the frustration o…
Writing Using is the most recent work by Ahn Aesoon, one of the most renowned contemporary dancers and choreographers in South Korea. She served as the artistic director of the Korea Nationa…
In 2004, Ireland, as one of the first countries in the EU, invited Polish people to live and work here. Over the past two decades, Poles have become the largest minority in Ireland, the Poli…
Fabio Tolledi is a theatre director, and playwright of Astrà gali Teatro, a theatre company founded in 1981, based in Italy. Since 1992, he directs all the performances and training activi…
The 68th Sterijino pozorje took place earlier this summer in Novi Sad. Critics Borisav Matić and Andrej ÄŒanji discuss this year's selection. Borisav: May was a month of upheaval and e…
Okay, let's start with a definition: it is said that sex is what you have between your legs, and gender is what you have between your ears. Certainly, the emotional experience of falling in …
Franco Ungaro works at the AMA " Accademia Mediterranea dell'Attore in Lecce (Italy), he has designed and managed, and educated many inspiring projects who are promoting contemporary Italian…
The tenth in a row international theatre festival "Shakespeare Festival", whose founder is director Nikita Milivojević, this year, held in ÄŒortanovci, Serbia, brought top theatre prod…
Walter Prete is a playwright, author, actor, educator, dramaturg, director. Born in 1991 in Ruffano, in the province of Lecce, Walter Prete approached the world of theatre as an actor at a v…
