Russia is my country, who better than me to clean up the ruins of our humanity. " Elena Kovalskaya Elena Kovalskaya is a theater critic, curator, and producer. She was born in Kerch, Crimea,…
OCEAN, or the touch of a relational lifeworld Sometimes, a performance, a work of art, reveals its timeliness in a time that does not favor its public appearance. Circumstances happen, and t…
Rasha Abd Elmonem " a playwright, independent theatre activist, and head of the training program at the Supreme Council of Culture (CSC) " shared her passion for theatre during the roundtabl…
During the very agonic and snail-slow, first foggy year under COVID of 2020, I met theater director Andrei Majeri, one of the most interesting and inspiring theatre people, at JoakimInterFes…
Youth Theatre, Novi Sad. Premiered February 27, 2022. A few days ago, a friend who is a teacher told me a story of her high school student who beat his fellow female classmate, hitting her w…
In a country at war, theatres continue to work… "(They) are so simple to offer war where they should kneel for peace," phrases torn out of the context of works acquire a new tone in the co…
Teatri ODA, Prishtina, 17th March 2022 Two actresses, both speaking in German, start talking about their national identity. They say they are Swiss and they question whether they have the ri…
The immediate trigger for the play was political and topical. West Bengal, in 1971, was passing through extreme instability. Fifty years ago, Utpal Dutt's play Barricade stormed Kolkata. …
Zagreb Youth Theater (ZKM), premiered on February 26, 2022 It is almost impossible to begin a review of the newest title in the Zagreb Youth Theatre (ZYT) program, Brothers Karamazov, wit…
Why did 46.8% of Americans vote for Donald Trump in the 2020 election? Why did approximately 2,000 of them attack the Capitol building? Why do 54% believe Joe Biden to be one of the worst Pr…
Although I'm wary of declaring any literary work to be the greatest ever, Shakespeare's Hamlet would be a frontrunner. It's often proclaimed to be or voted Shakespeare's best play (Google it…
Although the current government has blundered through both Brexit and the pandemic, and is now deliberately making life more difficult for both low-income families and the rest of us, theate…
Deirdre V. Lyons is currently living in Los Angeles and has been in over 75 Film and Theatrical productions throughout the west coast. In 2019 she joined the ensemble cast of The Under Prese…
There are two in one Tonderai Munyevus. I meet both of them on a snowy February evening at Brixton House, a new Off-West End theatre in South West London. The one onstage is a ruffler of fea…
Belgrade and Serbia have a three-century-long history of theatre. Along with the development of theatrical forms in Western Europe, the theater was growing in, then small, Kingdom of Serbia.…
What does it feel like to be British and black? Ryan Calais Cameron has recently emerged as the go-to guy for answers to this question. In February, the Soho Theatre revived Queens of Sheba,…
Despite Serbia's own environmental issues, work that explores ecological themes and the climate crisis is still relatively rare on Serbian stages. Borisav Matić looks at the work of the …
Jackie Sibblies Drury is one of the most exciting voices working in American theatre today. The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of Fairview and We Are Proud to Present a Presentation… has a …
Founded in 2015, Theatre Arts Group (TAG) is an independent theatre company in Romania that trains and supports emerging artists. Artistic director Gabriela Dumitru talks about international…
When do you have to take a stand? What compels you to do it? And what are the costs involved? These questions, which not only reflect the desire to protest against injustice in our increasin…
                       This article was originally posted to Daily Sabah on March 29, 2022, and ha…
The last several decades of U.S. history have seen a remarkable upswing in women's political success, with female candidates rising to prominence in Congress, the Supreme Court, and the Vice…
Despite Serbia's own environmental issues, work that explores ecological themes and the climate crisis is still relatively rare on Serbian stages. Borisav Matić looks at the work of the …
One of France's greatest prides is the network of African American artists who, in the mid-twentieth century, came to Paris. Josephine Baker, Beauford Delaney, Ada "Bricktop" Smith, Maya Ang…
In 1987, Caryl Churchill " without doubt the best living playwright in Britain " premiered her Serious Money, a satire on financial capitalism written in the form of a scintillating Restorat…