There are ballets about death, betrayal and ghosts. Then there is Don Quixote, where people clap, flirt, lie, fake death, shake tambourines and somehow expect all of this to end in a wedding…
It’s been six years since the end of Managed Approach, a project in Holbeck, Leeds, which managed a red light zone in 2014, before it was paused during COVID in 2020 and not reinstated in …
The interview took place on January 17, 2026. Maxim, do you remember your first conversation with Krymov? What did he tell you about the idea of the performance, and what was your first r…
Perhaps one of the strangest experiences one can have when moving to a new place is watching a performance tackling the exact same situation. Luckily, no two re-rooting stories are the same,…
At a time when, in the post-Brexit years, British theatre is increasingly insular, a visit by the Wooster Group, legendary veterans of American experimental theatre, is surely worth celebrat…
In a small town, where nothing really happens, K. works at VHS World, alongside her teenage friends (all misfits, according to the local twin bullies), and the boss, a middle-aged man who se…
Milan’s international festival, FOG, continues with productions from Italy and many parts of the globe. In late March I caught Frankenstein (History of Hate), a production by the much-accl…
Outside, mid-April in Basingstoke was all drizzle and grey light. Inside The Haymarket, Art of Andalucia opened another climate entirely. For one evening, the theatre felt closer to a Spanis…
In March, FOG – Milan’s annual performing arts festival – hosted Handle with Care, a production by Ontroerend Goed, the well-known performance-group from Ghent in Belgium. Ontroerend G…
To read PART I of this essay, go to this link. Having consulted with mana whenua[1]People with with authority over a certain area, in this case the people with authority over the area loc…
This article is dedicated to the memory of Rua McCallum – teacher, kaitiaki, scholar, performance practitioner, and playwright – who passed away on May 9th 2024. In her article “The Li…
Bondi Beach was premiered on the 7th of October 2023 at the municipal theatre in Ingolstadt. Further Productions followed in Regensburg, and the Hans-Otto-Theater in Potsdam in 2024/ 2025…
Already active across a number of north European theatre contexts " from her base in Lithuania to Sweden, Norway and Germany " American- and Russian-trained director Yana Ross has just made …
Every day, for many weeks, we keep hearing about nuclear weapons. Part of the reason for the current attack on Iran by the United States and Israel is the idea, whether true or not, that the…
MITEM (Madách International Theatre Meeting), held annually at the National Theatre in Budapest, is one of Central Europe's major international theatre festivals. Since its founding in 20…
David Safier was born in Bremen in 1966. He trained as a journalist, worked as radio and TV presenter and script writer for TV before he turned his attention to writing novels. Those have be…
Mark Rosenblatt's new play Giant is a sensational, admirable, and courageous effort to Make Anti-Semitism Despicable Again. MADA baseball caps coming soon. You read it here first. The play, …
The new stage adaptation of Dog Day Afternoon just opened on Broadway, directed by Rupert Goold, doesn't seem sure who its target audience is. If you went not knowing the source material (th…
An Interview with Mr. Denni Dennis, internationally renowned dancer, performer, educator-trainer (Denmark/Russia/Kazakhstan). Denni Dennis is born in Denmark/based in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Tra…
Okay, this is odd. The original novel, Les Liaisons dangereuses, first published in 1782, features a rich and powerful man and woman positively exulting in their manipulation of a much young…
In 2016, Austrian director Christian Krönes and colleagues launched their two-hour documentary film Ein deutsches Leben, about Brunhilde Pomsel (1911 " 2017). To a large extent, the film fe…
was a student of Lee Strasburg in his private class. I was directing around town, off-off Broadway, and in other areas in New York. I was invited to go to his Directors Unit at The A…
An Interview with Mr. Hassane Kassi Kouyaté, Chair of the International Artistic Committee of MASA " Marché des Arts du Spectacle Africain d'Abidjan, Ivory Coast /Republic of Côte d'Ivo…
Dedicated to the composer's 25th Broadway anniversary David Yazbek burst onto Broadway a quarter century ago with the musical "The Full Monty" and immediately gained recognition as a compose…
Falk Richter was born in 1969. He studied linguistics, philosophy and theatre directing at the University of Hamburg, the city in which he was born. He has since developed a noted and intern…