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Hyderabad's Nishumbita group to stage Golakonda, which merges puppetry, Kuchipudi and theatre This weekend, 18 actors of Hyderabad's Nishumbita theatre group will play a total of 182 charact…
Directed by South African theatre and film industry stalwart Dr. Jerry Mofokeng wa Makhetha, A Raisin in the Sun, written by famed American playwright Lorraine Hansberry, is a classic …
Review: Return to the Dirt, written by Steve Pirie and directed by Lee Lewis, Queensland Theatre I head to the world premiere of Return to the Dirt by Steve Pirie without reading the press m…
TheTheatreTimes.com was founded in 2016 as an all-volunteer project to decolonize theatre criticism. Our aim has always been "to share knowledge despite often unequal access to external reso…
It's trite to write about how hard it is to live from lockdown to lockdown; from one mask change to another; from vaccination to revaccination. Yet life consists of platitudes. It is trite t…
In a world saturated with entertainment products, TheTheatreTimes.com is evidence that live theatre is still a formidable entertainment option and cultural force. Every day, there are fresh …
As theatres reopened after the summer recess, the plays on offer in the Spanish capital were dominated by recreations of the country's past. As with much cultural production, theatre perform…
Remembering the months of lockdown, I can't be the only person to thrill to this play's opening lines, "When shall we three meet again?", a phrase evocative enough to be borrowed for the fir…
The play Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran, authentically narrates the story of a famous fatal Porsche crash in north Tehran that triggered heated debate on social media about…
Aguibou Bougobali Sanou (known as Bougobali) is a choreographer, performer, and director of the In-Out Festival in Burkina Faso. A recipient of many awards and grants including a Fulbr…
When the COVID-19 pandemic reached Brazil, I was in the city of São Paulo, covering an international theater festival, MIT-sp. On the last days of the event, we saw theaters being locked …
The rhythmic sound of drumming echoes through the streets. Tai Hang is normally quiet on weeknights, but tonight it is filled with people. In an alley near the Chinese Recreation Club, on th…
The Boy Friend. Oliver!. Cats. Blood Brothers. The Phantom of the Opera. Les Miserables. Billy Elliot. Matilda. If British musical theatre conjures images of whiteness, this is not by chance…
I don't know how to write this. I am on the verge of tears again, the morning after watching Snapped. I too feel snapped, broken again, in grief and eternally un-whole, mourning the loss …
What does it take to stretch Shakespeare's shortest tragedy to a runtime of over three hours? Not, as it turns out, a tedious crawl through the play. Rather, an electrifying but patient jour…
The special project "Viviani on the Road" at the Trianon Viviani Theatre offers an historical travel into the main streets of Naples.
The full version of the article "Viviani on the Road": a…
Since 9/11 there has been considerable interest in staging stories about British Muslims, and the best of these avoid the stereotypes of arranged marriage and terrorism. Although religious o…
Theatre is coming back slowly but surely. Though a difficult medium to translate online, it has been done with numerous shows, especially since the Covid-19 pandemic hit. Theatre for One: We…
Tanz mit dem Tiger (in English:Â Dance with the Tiger) is a forty-minute hybrid dance performance directed by choreographer and artistic director Pablo Sansalvador. It was presented to a …
The name "Tussaud" has always been linked to sensationalism and popular culture: now synonymous with the celebrity-studded wax "museums" known from London to Bangkok to Times Square, in the …
Storyboard Productions to stage Alan Ayckbourn's "Table Manners" on September 25 and 26. The dark comedy is a satire on the middle-class and their ideologies City-based Storyboard Production…
In 1937, George Orwell witnessed a boy whipping a horse. This was a catalyst for his novel Animal Farm. Published in 1945, it remains a potent political satire. A story about the days and mo…
Sinking Ship Productions, a company established in 2008 by Jonathan Levin and Josh Luxenberg has been invited to perform their award-winning play, A Hunger Artist, at…
Australia's performing arts sector has long been recognized as an ecosystem. It is a community of artists, arts organizations and institutions, all affected by factors such as education and …
I have to confess something. I haven't really missed theatre since the Covid-19 pandemic forced theatres to go dark in March 2020. The last time I saw professional theatre was a whirlwind we…
