Martin McDonagh is perhaps better known today globally for his recent accomplishments on screen as a writer and director, but he cut his teeth through his prodigious work as a playwright. Fi…
Due to the current financial crisis in the tertiary education sector in Aotearoa/New Zealand, the university where I teach Theatre is proposing to cut 230 jobs. The cuts are far-reaching and…
Plans for the 2023 Kenya International Theatre Festival are in high gear. The 8th edition of the festival will be run from 31st of October to 12th November 2023. This year's them…
Laurie Anderson's new show " currently on its European tour " is full of meteorological precipitation. The multimedia backdrop, designed by the artist, features various kinds of downfall or …
Night, a faint and obscure shroud, creeps over and overtakes space. Sounds of footsteps clattering steadily, becoming closer, drawing attention and commanding focus. The arrival of four …
Dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the very first publication of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's fairy tale "The Little Prince" and the 20th anniversary of the musical of the same name. "T…
The smooth curves of the fancy building, with no sharp angles, were embraced by the spicy Baku evening. Its huge transparent windows, penetrated by the light of the bright sun, reflected the…
Ken Loach's 2016 film I, Daniel Blake is a scathing indictment of the British benefits system. The film follows 59-year-old widower Daniel Blake who suffers a heart attack and becomes unable…
European Theatre Convention published a new study, Digital Theatre " Strategies and Business Models in European Theatre. Kasia Lech speaks to its author Katie Hawthorne, whose doctoral thesi…
What is life? How can it be measured? How is it possible to compare one experience of life with another one? all of it, three extraordinary play poems by Alistair McDowall ask the unanswerab…
Peter Morgan's Patriots at the Noël Coward Theatre: award-winning story of Putin's triumph is vivid but unreal The full version of the article Peter Morgan's Patriots At The Noël Cowa…
Egypt's esteemed prima ballerina Magda Saleh passed away in the early hours of Sunday in Cairo. As the country's first-ever prima ballerina, Magda Saleh left an indelible mark on the Egyptia…
The first notes of Simon McBurney's production of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) which opened on May 19th at The Metropolitan Opera begin before the house lights have gone down.…
The bread holds a distinct symbolic significance within the realm of art iconography. Often overlooked in museums or art history manuals, still-life paintings featuring bread allude to relig…
Alexey Strelnicov was a Belarusian theatre critic, director, actor and tutor. He is considered to be "the engine" of the artisan Belarusian theatre. Alexey appreciated human relationships th…
The stage adaptation of Léonora Miano's Ce qu'il faut dire (or "What Must be Said") addresses a longstanding taboo in French society around the open discussion of race. A central tenet of c…
Can you enjoy a ghost story during summer? Usually the idea of a haunted house suggests images of dark winter nights, thunder and lightning, and howling wolves. These atmospheric factors are…
KPOP is a new musical, with a book by Jason Kim and music by Helen Park and Max Vernon. It premiered at A.R.T./New York as a co-production by ArsNova, Woodshed Collective, and Ma-Yi Theater …
The second Novi Sad Theater Festival again provided an exciting seven-day festival repertoire for children, and young people, as well as sensitive enjoyers of refined, gentle, and irresistib…
Empty Gregory's coffee cups and PureLeaf bottles reside on a table, Trader Joe's bags are against the coat rack. String lights are hung with haphazard care, and, perched beneath the coffee t…
Robert Patrick, playwright, passed away on April 23, 2023, at his home in Los Angeles. He was 85. He was born on September 27, 1937 in Kilgore, Texas. He began his theatrical career at the l…
 Originally a collection of West Asian folktales, The Arabian Nights may be the series of bedtime stories with which many in the West, as little kids, doze off into a good night's sleep.…
Dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the first publication of the play by Jean Poiret  La Cage Aux Folles and the 30th anniversary of the musical of the same name. This essay includes par…
Imagine yourself in a remote place: it could be a mountaintop, or a lost village, or the Amazon. These are the locations that Simon McBurney and his Complicité theater company take us to wi…
We are watching history being made: after decades of being in the shadows, queer drama is now singing and dancing into the mainstream. Theatre after theatre is staging stories about queer, t…