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Who better to breathe new life into Shakespeare's Tempest than Tim Crouch " a magician extraordinaire of the 21st century British theatre? There are several strands of his career that land r…
Luciana Acuña is one of the most exciting figures in contemporary dance. Her energy lit up La edad media/ The Middle Ages, the 2022 Covid-19 lockdown film she co-directed with her partner…
A week ago today, the winner of the 2026 Ibsen International Award was announced by the Norwegian National Theatre. This year's winner Jaha Koo is a remarkable interdisciplinary artist and t…
For his newest play, La última noche con mi hermano (The Last Night With My Brother), Alfredo Sanzol has taken inspiration from a friend telling him about the final night she spent with h…
The Schnürschuh-Theater in Bremen was founded in 1976 and has been at its current location since 1994. For 2025 it received public institutional funding of 92250 € (compared with 34,3…
An Interview with theatre director and theatre festival manager Zoran Rakocevic, Kolasin-Podgorica, Montenegro, Europe. Zoran Rakocevic is a Montenegrin theatre director and founder of the K…
It is ridiculous to think that it's not enough to curate a Festival. I would stack up our good to bad ratio against any network season, any Hollywood studio, any program season. It's…
What does it mean to be honest with your partner? This is the premise that governs Salomé Lelouch's entertaining two-hander, Mejor no decirlo/You Shouldn't Have Said So which presents a cou…
If you've ever felt like you were just playing a part in your own life"waiting for a big break or a magic potion to finally make you feel successful"then Coni Koepfinger's The Unusual Chaunc…
An Interview with Mr. Muanis Sinanovic (Slovenia), poet, writer, essayist, and critic. Muanis Sinanovic (1989) is a Slovenian poet, writer, essayist, and critic. He has published four poetry…
In February 2025, after completing The Geography of the Theatre Imagination: The Case of Complicité course offered at the University of GdaÅ„sk by Tomasz WiÅ›niewski, the four student…
Adapted from the Booker Prize"winning novel by Irish author Paul Lynch, Prophet Song is staged by the ITA Ensemble (International Theatre Amsterdam) under the direction of Iranian-born Germa…
I first saw Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Film, The Marriage of Maria Braun not long after it first came out, when I was an undergraduate studying theater and film. We were interested in Europe…
An Interview with Mr. Meir Bar-Giora (Hungary/Israel/China), theatre and performing arts agent based in Shanghai. Meir Bar-Giora is agent /manager of FCE Fringe Cultural Entertainment Age…
FOG, Milan's performing arts festival, is back with some rare treats for theatregoers keen to discover the best in cutting-edge work on international circuits, as well as emerging artists, w…
Plays about famous people have always held special attraction to dramatists, theatres and audiences. Plays about famous artists (such as actors, musicians, painters, and poets) have held a p…
Rok VilÄnik (b. 1968), also known as rokgre, is a prominent Slovenian author, poet, playwright, lyricist, and multidisciplinary artist working across theatre, literature, music, televisio…
On the opening night of Miracle in Milan at the Piccolo Teatro Strehler, the excitement of the audience, flocking into the 968-seater auditorium, was tangible. Seventy-five years after the e…
An Enemy of the People was first introduced to Greek audiences in 1902 by the pioneering "New Stage" of Konstantinos Christomanos. This year, An Enemy of the People is being staged at the Kn…
Jake Brasch's The Reservoir tells the story of a charmingly self-deprecating, openly gay NYU theater student named Josh who is a chronically relapsing drunk. Josh wakes up after a blackout n…
The newly published book Digital Access to the Performing Arts: A Comparative Study of Legal and Structural Challenges by Magda Romanska (Bristol University Press, 2026) has been selected by…
Dea Loher (b. 1964), has been a prominent German dramatist since the world premiere of her first play, Olgas Raum, in 1991. Her publisher, Verlag der Autoren, lists 24 plays. Frau Yamamoto i…
Ngozi Anyanwu's The Monsters is a poignant and muscular two-hander about a Black brother and sister, estranged for 16 years, who reconcile over intensive training in MMA fighting. It's a swe…
By a fortuitous coincidence, a new theatre-work The Chair and The Cello " which features an armchair manufactured by a Swedish homewares corporation " premiered two days before that same cor…
Balding men are often precious about their hair. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was no exception. First in Spain, and later during his exile in France following General Franco's victory in the Sp…
