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…
Young Barbarians " director: Attila Vidnyánszky Jr. They say the best way to get to know each other is to go on a trip. The best way to get to know contemporary theatre is to go to th…
Just over 10 years ago, then-Prime Minister Julia Gillard stood up in the House of Representatives to deliver one of the most unforgettable political speeches in recent memory. Office worker…
Is it possible to successfully challenge naturalism in British theatre today? At a time when audiences crave feelgood dramas, uplifting musicals and classic well-made plays, there is very li…
Does it seem far-fetched to imagine a future where the government subsidizes theatres and theatre artists at a living wage, and land-based art hubs rely heavily on new technologies while nur…
Brian Friel's classic play about the blending of Paganism and Christianity in 1930s Ireland is more than 30 years old " and I remember seeing the original production from Dublin's Abbey Thea…
No matter how trends, themes, agendas and moods of society change, the focus of the study of art will always be human. After all, it is created by people for people. The message to the man i…
Get inside a woman's head and, by understanding her, unravel the mystery of how the world works. Theodoros Terzopoulos, whose play Nora (Attis Theatre) opened the MITEM festival as part of t…
There is nothing easy about Alberto San Juan's Lectura fácil. His adaptation of Cristina Morales' prizewinning novel, published in English by Penguin as Easy Reading in 2022, follows the …
Paulien Geerlings is the head dramaturg at Amsterdam's The Toneelmakerij, a theatre company devoted to children and teens. Currently, she serves as the artistic lead of Young Europe IV. …
The popularity of plays that feature trauma is certainly a trend in British theatre today. But is this a good thing? On the one hand, staging stories of sexual assault might offer consolatio…
Alejandro Palomas has transformed his acclaimed 2005 novel La isla del aire (The Island of Air) into a play. The textured novel weaving together the voices of three generations of women deal…
Even though for the last decade there have been numerous attempts to unleash Chinese theatre's potential due to the growing global discussion on technology interference with the arts and its…
Hummus is not appropriated hipster dip, it's Palestinian food. So argues Wally, a Palestinian-American, to his white ex-girlfriend Sarah early in Samer al-Saber's new play Decolonizing Sarah…
A small boat sails the stage while a trap door serves as the river depths for one of the characters to sink beneath the waves. And as the story reaches its inevitable conclusion, a snowstorm…
IOTF 2023: International Online Theatre Festival will launch April 17 " 30. Now in its fourth edition, IOTF 2023 will feature 39 shows from 23 countries, across all six continents, including…
Contemporary Black British theatre is admirably adamant about pushing its own boundaries and expanding its audience. A recent case in point is Ryan Calais Cameron's bracing play For Black Bo…
It's about two years since I moved to the Oresund region, the liminal place between southern Sweden and eastern Denmark " also known as the greater Copenhagen area. Though I have begun to le…
That AI is poised to take over countless jobs, wipe out entire job sectors, is all over the news these days. Concerns about how displaced workers will support themselves tend to be met with …
Ðn Exclusive Interview with James Paterson who was part of the original cast of the legendary musical The Phantom of the Opera, later on, the resident director at Her Majesty's Theatre on…
TRACES is a new devised documentary theater piece presented by the investigative theatre group What Will the Neighbors Say? and commissioned by CUNY Queens College in Queens, NY. Researched …
When the world is engulfed in flames of enmity, would another flame be superfluous? Not if it is the flame of the Olympic fire, the fire of art. It can be salutary, transformative and gracef…
It can be difficult to gain contemporary audience for Shakespearean performance. Though the Bard's works are mounted across the world in amplitude (and many attend), rarely does a community-…
A great love that must defy prejudice. A secret kept hidden for years and a surprising denouement. The formidable force of memories unveils the mysteries of the past. Stach comes from a weal…