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After lockdown, the stage monologue saved British theatre. At venue after venue, cash-strapped companies put single actors into simple playing spaces to deliver good stories for audiences th…
After its premiere at north London's Almeida Theatre in 2019, Robert Icke's The Doctor earned glowing reviews and plaudits, most notably Olivier Award nominations for best new play and best …
Indoor theatre is back. Despite audiences being inscrutable in masks, I've seen two packed shows and begun to believe that theatres are finally recovering after a dreadful year. But the outd…
Why are we indifferent to anti-Semitism? In the past few weeks the Royal Court, a proud citadel of wokeness, has been embroiled in an appalling case of prejudice by allowing a character, who…
What has been left after all well-written dialogues, which were once deemed to be the spirit of Shakespeare's play, were to be removed? An all-female nonverbal stage version of King Lear ada…
For anyone wondering if live theater offers nothing but escapism from our mini-plague"or worse"on the nose woke-ism, last weekend's Science in Theater festival proved a stunning demonstratio…
Rena Matsui always knew she wanted to enter the acting world, and launching her career by performing in idol-pop groups was all part of her plan. She started out as a member of the Nagoya-ba…
Cruel Games at the Mossovet Theater is not just the name of a forgotten play by Alexei Arbuzov, but a new genre by the theatre's recently appointed artistic director, Yevgeny Marchelli. The …
This Fall, the international Theatre HD company Stage Russia enters its fifth season. With a variety of shows and genres to choose from, the company now offers an all-inclusive season pass. …
"I have an aversion to 'immersive theater,'" Tiago Rodrigues says at the beginning of By Heart. He says this as he asks ten audience members to join him on stage for the performance. Rodrigu…
In 2014, the Latino Theater Company (LTC) re-ignited the Latinx theatre festival tradition, a legacy that has been a mainstay of Chicanx and Latinx theatre-making in the United States for ov…
Theatre saved my life. By the time TheTheatreTimes.com appeared, I had already crossed one continent and one ocean. Looking at the Broadway lights standing at the corner of 42nd Street and 6…
The dance performance Arbeit by Å imun Stankov, Una Å talcar-FuraÄ and Espi TomiÄić takes inspiration from construction work and demystifies artwork as something particular, ap…
TheTheatreTimes.com's International Online Theatre Festival is the second-place winner of the Culture Online International Award for "Best Online Project." In 2021, a total of 452 projects w…
Diversity in film is important, but in animation, it carries an even heavier, different message. Since animation is mainly geared towards children, it is even more important to have characte…
THE BLUE PIANO/THE BLUE GUITAR. Director: Fred Abrahamse. Cast: Matthew Baldwin, Zoë McLaughlin and Marcel Meyer. Accompaniment/Musical Direction: Jaco Griessel. The Vineyard Hotel, Ne…
The futureStage Manifesto was written by the futreStage Research Group at Harvard metaLAB.* It offers a vision of performance as a human right, intimately entangled with all the stages on…
'As an immigrant playwright in Denmark adapting August Strindberg's world classic 'at source' (Miss Julie premiered in Copenhagen 1888 as penned by iconic Swedish playwright August Strindber…
Balkan Bordello: An Orgiastic Musical in the Aftermath of War Imagine yourself at a hedonistic nightclub full of campy decorations, cheap furniture and guests that drown themselves in sh…
It's been nearly 100 years since George Enesco's Å’dipe (Oedipus) was created to much success on the Paris Opera stage. Today, the opera remains an elusive gem, with live performances sta…
The second show after The Times They Are a-Changin' to use the music of the great midwestern musician, Girl From the North Country proves the greater of the two. It opts for whic…
Hypocrisy. Is this the right word? I don't mean the play, but the audience. Of course, in the middle of the current COVID-19 crisis, there's bound to be a certain amount of discomfort whe…
Recognizing excellence in live Broadway theater, the Tony Awards bestowed the jukebox adaptation of Baz Luhrmann's hyperactive 2001 movie, Moulin Rouge! The Musical! and The Inheritance with…
Chinese musical theater has largely abandoned high-concept shows in favor of shallow engagement with idol culture. Where are all the Chinese musicals? This question isn't as low stakes as it…
Wolves and a dark night. The perfect match. Those lines get me every time. From the first time I read them, in a café on the edge of my seat with my hand over my mouth, to now, three years …
