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Creating art that reflects our time, Kat Mustatea is a playwright and technologist whose conceptual triumphs are rooted in narrative-led, drama. Her creative endeavors pay regard to the bear…
Xavier Bobés is one of those remarkable artists able to conjure a world through a few objects that he animates with a magician's sense of the unexpected. His dramaturgy provides the spectat…
Olga Voronkova is a London-based, Belarusian video editor, scriptwriter, copywriter, and producer working with Belarus Free Theatre and Young Vic. Her work focuses on the intersection of act…
Is anyone still nostalgic about their teen years? The coming-of-age drama is a staple of contemporary British theatre, but surely there is something just a bit too predictable about stories …
Jesús Cimarro is the current President of the Spanish Academy of Performing Arts (Academia de las Artes Escénicas de España), as well as the co-founder and director of the theatrical …
Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, and The Theatre Times present "Woman, Life, Freedom: Theatre and Protest in Iran," a virtual roundtable in h…
It has been so challenging to write these reviews of three recent works presented as part of the Prototype Festival, works, as the founders have said in various ways, that "skirt the line be…
Juan Mayorga, one of Spain's most decorated dramatists " a member of Spain's Spanish Royal Academy since 2019 and recipient of the Princess of Asturias Literature Prize in 2022 " is not aver…
The work of Thalia Ranjbar may be challenging" pushing beyond norms and expectations, but at its core it is kind. Her gentle, but relentless commitment to community can be felt both in the c…
Entering the theatre at HERE Arts, there is already a sense of broken ground. My companion and I find ourselves facing a half-built theatrical set, upstage canvas sign proclaiming "THEATRE S…
The topic of the digital spectator and, implicitly, the one of the multi-stratified co-presence, with all of the implications that arise from such an encounter with a production or with a pe…
Dedicated to the 35th anniversary of the Broadway musical "The Phantom of the Opera." It is known that the construction of the Grand Opera or the Palais Garnier in Paris inspired Gaston Lero…
The female monologue is a well-established contemporary theatre form, but often the content is predictable and sometimes clichéd. No such doubts come to mind with Laura Horton's latest play…
Florian Zeller's The Father, first produced in 2012, remains a timely play for various reasons. It provides a direct and confrontational examination of the challenges of living with dementia…
Catalan director Àlex Rigola, the former artistic director of the Venice Biennale's theatre section, likes boxes. Many of his scenographic configurations have gravitated around a structu…
Much of my approach to theatre, to performance, especially, consists in locating and assessing a production's center of gravity; that is, what are the dominating forces at work in realizing …
Only a week after the invasion of Ukraine, three creatives found themselves nestled around a bartop. Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva, Diana Zhdanova, and Jeremy Goren, the artistic directors of fe…
An ambitious plan to fly from GdaÅ„sk, Poland to Goiânia, Brazil and co-organize as well as lead a four-day festival was realized by Tomasz WiÅ›niewski and Martin Blaszk in June 202…
Introduction São Paulo Theatre School was founded in 2009 with the aim to establish a democratic space and implement an innovative pedagogical system in agreement with the specific nature…
ENTRE, is a Portuguese verb in the imperative tense that invites us to enter. That says to us: Enter! Entre.Between.PomiÄ™dzy, a festival that took place in Midwest Brazil in 2022, extend…
Praça Roosevelt (Roosevelt Square) is a square located in downtown São Paulo. It was a historic place for culture and resistance against the military dictatorship (1964 " 1984) but aft…
Willy Hudson is a writer and performer from Exeter " his Willy Hudson Ltd theatre company advertises itself as making "fabulous queer theatrical extravaganzas to make you go ooh, argh and oh…
Naples. Last October and November, Naples was traversed by a cultural event that aimed to reassign theatre to its former role as a cultural vector within civil society. This ambitious task m…
In an age of so-called "cancel culture" it's important to remember that for much of British history, it was the state, not the masses, who censored the work of artists. Between 1737 and 1968…
The Italian American gangster " Al Capone (Alphonse Gabriel Capone), who reigned as a crime boss in 1920-1930s during the Prohibition Era in Chicago " even one hundred years later, his perso…
