The Metropolitan Opera, which was closed after the coronavirus broke out in New York in March 2020, finally opened its curtains with an epoch-making debut " the first opera by a black compos…
The stage adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has opened in Brisbane. Charlie, like all of Roald Dahl's novels for children, celebrates courage, resilience and the creative power…
On 21 June 2021, the Dramaturgs Network (a volunteer arts organization by and for dramaturgs working in the United Kingdom) held an online roundtable discussion to mark the launch of the d'n…
It was enough for theater fans to learn that after more than 50 years, the Tony Award-winning "Oliver!" would be returning to Tokyo. The icing on the cake (or the extra serving of soup) is t…
These Are Not My Shoes is a story about absent fathers and what happens to young men when they grow up without a father figure. It is a heart-wrenching account of the difficult life young me…
How S.V. Sahasranamam's stage adaptation of the poet's Panchali Sabadham became a huge success September 11 marked the death centenary of poet Subramania Bharati (though it says September 12…
Numerous Egyptian and international theatre plays took part in the inaugural edition of Eazees International Festival for Women's Theatre which concluded its activities last week. The large …
This is a labor of love. Hilary Mantel has adapted The Mirror and the Light, the third novel of her Tudor trilogy, in collaboration with actor Ben Miles, who is the Royal Shakespeare Company…
Belarusian theatre hibernated since the notorious events of 2020. The artistic quality of most of the state theatres' performances is quite low, while most of the independent theatre compani…
A connoisseur of new art forms and emergent technology, Lance Weiler is a highly sought-after storyteller and media artist practicing in film, TV, theatre, games, and code. After stunning au…
When Tang Kwong-san and fellow Hong Kong artist Yuen Nga-chi first visited Tung Ping Chau a few months ago, they were looking for an interesting backdrop for a project they had in mind. But …
The management of the Sharm El-Sheikh International Theatre Festival for Youth (SITFY) revealed that it has received 302 performances from local, regional, and international troupes willing …
Gluck's Iphégenie en Tauride doesn't waste any time ushering the viewer into its mystical score. From the start, a musical storm brews in the orchestra pit, bringing Euripides's Greek drama…
The 28th iteration of the 28th Aspendos Opera and Ballet Festival, which kicked off on Sept. 4 in Turkey's Mediterranean resort city of Antalya, continues with exclusive performances, compri…
The Thrissur-based collective has been organizing performances in the homes of artists and streaming them live on Facebook to raise funds. Drama has been the only source of income for 51-yea…
The poets say that Love will be the world's great redeemer, But love is rarely quite as pure as what they describe And if that's the payment, the Gates should require The price is not that h…
The Real Bosco di Capodimonte is more than a public park in Naples: it is a Paradise, not far from the center of the city. The visitors have the possibility to enjoy a huge, green area wi…
Based on an American novel detailing the country's troubled 20th century, the new Belgian opera The Time of Our Singing evokes racial discord in the United States through the story of a mixe…
It's hard to prepare for life's high and lows when you think too highly of yourself to expect them. You will bet on yourself, but you won't hedge the pursuit of that dream with a surer, albe…
In a normal country, plays like Text Me When You Arrive, which has just ended a short run at the Market Theatre, would not be necessary, but this is not a normal country. To have an en…
When Keito Okamoto was offered the title role in French dramatist Florian Zeller's latest work, The Son, he felt the play was written about him. "It was completely astonishing," he says. And…
Are we too obsessed with Nazism? Apart from countless television programs which revisit that grim era, as fact or as fiction, in monochrome or in color, briefly or at length, there has recen…
As the theatre world in Canada and the US anxiously expects the final re-opening of Broadway and still lives in the uncertainty marked by Covid-19 without the clear promise of what the futur…
"Stop now! See that? You see that cloud? That beautiful shape?" That is what Ken Reynolds would say to his daughter Adele when they went for walks in the countryside in her youth. "He was al…
He supports the Freeszfe Association and condemns the curtailment of artistic freedom. We asked Robert Wilson about the why. He also sent a message to young Hungarians. AN INTERVIEW BY PANNI…