When the non-peaceful world is illuminated by the bursts of shells, it seems that other illuminations fade in these bursts. But this impression is false, and even to the roar of the cannons …
The previews of &Juliet the musical, began October 28th 2022 at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre on Broadway. &Juliet is originally coming to us from the West End, where it premiered in …
What is the best way of talking about the Middle East? Should plays take a documentary or verbatim approach, all the better to educate and inform, or is there another path, which includes en…
Drag is gaining popularity and visibility at a rapid pace. With the body as a canvas and the internet as its inspiration, an exciting playground emerges for the drag artist. Simon Baetens zo…
Two well-known theater groups, JB Creations and Stage Creations, collaborate for the first time to stage a family drama. The incessant rain that lashed the city recently did not dampen one's…
Meta-theatre has been a bit of a theme at Kosovo's latest independent theatre showcase in Prishtina. Perhaps it's a coincidence, but I would lay a bet it's not. More likely, it is an emergin…
Julia Pascal is a resourceful theatre-maker who is unafraid of being controversial. Her interest in the relationship between the personal and the political, and sympathy with both the victim…
Review: The Jungle and the Sea, directed by Eamon Flack and S. Shakthidharan, Belvoir. After the roaring success of their debut collaboration, Counting and Cracking, S. Shakthidharan and …
Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, as anyone reading this knows, is a cornerstone of American drama. It's the first play by a Black woman to be produced on Broadway (in 1959), the fir…
TV is a strange medium, but James Graham is no stranger to its toxic charm. London audiences have recently witnessed the British playwright's musical adaptation of the life of Tammy Faye, th…
Review: RBG: Of Many, One, directed by Priscilla Jackman, Sydney Theatre Company Writing a play about the life and legacy of American Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was always goi…
Tamil contemporary theatre in the city sees a promising resurgence as new faces debut on stage with fresh scripts and creative ideas. Centrestage, under the spotlight, sits a corpse. It is n…
There is a palpable sense of world-class musicianship as the ensemble of six instrumentalists and two backing vocalists take to the stage to set the scene for Jason Timbuktu Diakité's eveni…
Walking to the back of Sisters on Fulton, the excitement is palpable. A sizable group has gathered in the warmth of this cozy-yet-upscale eatery to enact and celebrate Hedgepig Ensemble Thea…
Earlier this year in the Polish theatre journal Didaskalia (169/170, 2022), a pair of Ukrainian and Polish critics Iryna Czużynowa and Marta Kacwin-Duman posed a powerful question: Have y…
"In Kosovo men are bulls**t, we are like criminals…" Kushtrim Koliqi has been a human rights activist, theatremaker, filmmaker and producer on the Kosovo theatre scene for more than a deca…
Joe White is great at staging fraught emotions. His Mayfly in 2018 vividly showed a family whose members were at the end of their tethers; it also had an intriguingly intelligent form. In hi…
The University of Göttingen would like to invite you to The 1st International Symposium on Contemporary Asian Theatre (ISCAT), December 8th-9th, 2022. This hybrid symposium will take pl…
Most of what we know about the beginnings of English professional theater as a financial enterprise and artistic endeavor comes from thousands of manuscript pages in the archive of Philip He…
Since February 2022, Western and Ukrainian media have reported on the kidnapping and forced adoption of Ukrainian children by Russians. The exact number of Ukrainian children transferr…
Last night, at the Arcola, I witnessed the return of The Poltergeist, Philip Ridley's blazing one-man show from 2020. It is a terrific piece of writing, a text which is a masterpiece of stor…
The last few years in politics have gifted the keen observer many allusions to some of Shakespeare's best-loved works. From the Midsummer Night's (fever) Dream the electorate might think the…
The Unbelieving is documentary theater (all the lines are taken from real interviews), but this contemplative piece about clergy members who have stopped believing in God moves less like a s…
F*ck7thGrade is messy, it's awkward, it's unrelentingly earnest, and it's utterly delightful. Singer-songwriter Jill Sobule's queer coming-of-age concert musical didn't win me over right awa…
The International Association for Theatre Leaders (IATL) would like to invite you to The International Workshop Series for Emerging Theatre Leaders, November 30 " December 7, 2022. The Inter…