In the opening scene of Puana, a musical play written and directed by Professor Tammy Haili'Åpua Baker, a curious young man sifts through a trunk of memorabilia in his family home. As he …
Before the Storm is set in a rather dilapidated dressing room where an elderly actor waits to go onstage for his last performance in August Strindberg's Storm. As he waits, he reflects on hi…
The morning of the day I saw Narcissister's spellbinding and stunningly original Voyage Into Infinity I had been working my day job at a bagel shop. "There's no flow!" I overheard one of the…
Many, especially prestigious, new productions of Chekhov's The Seagull in the UK and USA commission new translations or versions of the play. For example, in 1985, for his West End productio…
Wet Mess is a captivating performer with a playfully defined aesthetic. Their checkerboard face and giant phallic objects (somewhat reminiscent of the sprawling shapes of Yayoi Kusama) were …
Encounters between artists and practitioners are invariably profound experiences, where knowledge is exchanged in real time as a lived practice. Such meetings allow one to gain a holistic pe…
Bremen's Packhaustheater set its agenda with a focus on the local, so as not to compete with the municipal theatre, the two comedy theatres, the Bremer Shakespeare Company and the theatre sp…
New Year, new line up of West End stars. This time it's the turn of Olivier-Award-winner Sheridan Smith and multi-award-winning comedian Romesh Ranganathan, both household names, now appeari…
A towering figure in Chicago theatre, Charles Newell"former Marilyn F. Vitale Artistic Director of Court Theatre and 2024 Joseph Jefferson Special Award recipient"discusses the five-year pro…
It's very hard to define Chiao-Jung Chen as one kind of artist, for she is someone who works fluidly across genres. She has worked as a playwright, a librettist, and a lyricist on various pr…
Berlin at Chicago's Court Theatre (April"May 2025) was nothing short of a theatrical triumph. Directed by the seasoned Charles Newell, who has helmed the Court Theatre for three decades, the…
We all know the iconic closing lines: "For never was a story of more woe / Than this of Juliet and her Romeo." But after experiencing a recent performance of Leili and Majnun at Centra…
"So high you can kiss the sky" is one of the many iconic lines from With Ruby and I, a debut show by playwright Corrina O'Beirne, which premiered at the Brighton Fringe in 2025 and is up for…
How do forgiveness and reconciliation projects help heal a country's collective trauma and contribute to its future nation-building? What role does theatre play in this social activity? Thes…
The play Nebenan was premiered at Burgtheater Wien in 2022, based on the film of the same title (international title: Next Door) by Daniel Brühl (2021) in a production directed by the then …
There are directors who have gotten us accustomed to treading on unconventional paths. They have trained us to expect the unexpected, the off-the-beaten-track. And we appreciate them, not be…
In 2019, Landestheater Salzburg used a new translation of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People as the basis for a version of the play in which Dr Katrine Stockmann was female, a single mother to h…
Golden Thread Productions' world premiere of Pilgrimage, written by Humaira Ghilzai and Bridgette Dutta Portman, opened on October 26, 2025, marking the culmination of a years-long creative …
The power of education as a tool for emancipation and democratic thinking has been the subject of a few productions of late in Spanish theatre. To Xavier Bobés and Alberto Conejero's El mar…
The House of Bernarda Alba has engendered no shortage of spin-offs " dance and film adaptations like those of Eleo Pomare, Mats Ek and Mario Camus, as well works that pick up the piece's cha…
La Cubana have been making theatre for over 45 years " stagings that have reimagined popular genres while contemplating the dynamics of putting on a show from the perspectives of those worki…
Laying Historical Ground, Wide-angle Towards the end of Faustin Linyekula's theatrical dance piece My body, my archive"devised in 2023 and witnessed by me as performed during the Aichi Trien…
El dÃa del Watusi (The Day of the Watusi) gets a second outing at the Teatre Lliure. First seen in the 2023/4 season at the Lliure's Grà cia venue, it now plays in the larger Montjuï…
How do we learn to forgive, especially in the aftermath of a massacre that has no rational explanation? This is the subject of Diego Garrido Sanz's Violencia (Violence), his adaptation of Fr…
There is no shortage of plays on the subject of mid-life crisis, from Alan Charles' Midlife Crisis to Tracy Letts' Linda Vista. Writer-director Pablo Remón has added to the mix with his t…