Young Europe IV is a large-scale artistic collaboration project to tackle the dominance of stories from a white, male, heterosexual perspective, and create a more diverse and inclusive theat…
Identity is the sum of the stories we tell ourselves. Some of these are personal, and some political. Sometimes they blend, sometimes clash. In Aaron Kilercioglu and Bilal Hasna's excellentl…
Before there was After Midnight, before there was Smokey Joe's Cafe, and before there was Black and Blue, there was Ain't Misbehavin', the 1978 musical revue featuring the Fats Waller songbo…
Technology and the theater are closer together than ever, and our hope for the planet may depend on it. After my seventh time seeing Chekhov brought to life through NFTs, robots, and an …
Why is this boy-kills-girl play different from all other boy-kills-girl plays? For starters, it might not be, but for me, Marie It's Time, Julia Jarcho's delightfully perverse riff on the 18…
Review: My Self in That Moment, directed by Tamara Saulwick for Chamber Made. In his visionary essay published almost a century ago, Walter Benjamin argued that something of the aur…
Review: Tell Me I'm Here, directed by Leticia Cáceres, Belvoir. Released in 1991, the memoir Tell Me I'm Here remains a landmark examination of the experience of mental illness in Austral…
Suicide is the second highest cause of death in 15-to-29-year-olds around the world, according to UK charity Young Minds, an organization set up to help children and young people with …
Lately, I have been seeing examples of Jason Jamerson's theatrical design work on Instagram " images he has made in collaboration with Artificial Intelligence apps. According to a recent art…
'If this were a text for the theatre, here is how it would begin' " these are the opening words of the French literary superstar Édouard Louis's third book Who Killed My Father, publishe…
On June 13, 2022, I spoke with Guillaume Gay, who is operational and artistic director of the French Polynesia-based La Compagnie du Caméléon. Across the Whatsapp airwaves, fifteen thousan…
"Time means nothing. That is, it does, but not in the way we think," says Joseph, the protagonist of the play "Ask Joseph," by Slava Stepnov and Roman Freud. He tries to explain to his wife …
Review: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, directed by Kip Williams for Sydney Theatre Company With their new production, Kip Williams and the Sydney Theatre Company have revisited the a…
African American drama, theater and performance has a rich and complex history. Only recently, however, the U.S. theater establishment seems to recognize the work of young Black playwrights …
Shakespeare's language is widely considered to represent the pinnacle of English. But that status is underpinned by multiple myths " ideas about language that have departed from reality (or …
Here's a few things to start with. Following my recent relocation from London to the Swedish equivalent of Oxford, this is my first encounter with the Lund Comedy Festival. The three-day eve…
To read Part 1 of this interview, click here. Nahm: Let's talk now about Texas Aunt. I said earlier that The Wooden Boat is a great Korean play to introduce to international audiences. Bu…
Interview and translation by Kee-Yoon Nahm. Â Yun Mi Hyun is a playwright based in South Korea. After writing fiction and poetry in her early career, she debuted as a playwright in 2012 w…
Performance "When God Kicks You In The Womb", based on the novel by Ildiko LovaÅ¡, is a play by Hungarian actors that live and work in Serbia and its theatres. AndraÅ¡ Urban, an authenti…
Skeleton Crew is Dominique Morisseau's best play so far. It's the most streamlined work in her celebrated Detroit trilogy, more tightly plotted, surprising, and moving than either Detroit '6…
Interview of the "original" Gringoire from Notre Dame de Paris the musical " Â Bruno Pelletier with Lisa Monde, August 5th 2022 This past August Bruno Pelletier " the "Golden voice of Cana…
The opening play of the Blyth Theatre Season, Michael Healey's Canadian classic, The Drawer Boy, has once more come home. Set in a farming community in Huron County, its starting poin…
Cottagers and Indians by Drew Hayden Taylor A lazy afternoon on a cedar deck that could be anywhere in Ontario cottage country. A casually dressed, mature woman from Toronto (her relaxed …
Bodies of Knowledge (BOK) is a semi-nomadic classroom that facilitates alternative and non-dominant forms of learning that have the potential to lead us to a more humane and just society. Bo…
The 25th edition of the international theatre and dance festival Mladi Levi (Young Lions) was successfully held in Ljubljana from 19th to 27th August. The festival, organized by a Slovenian …