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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…
Following a summit of industry leaders organized by Black Theatre United earlier this year, a coalition of Broadway theater owners, producers, union leaders, creators and casting directors a…
The Kenya Theatre Awards seek to fill these two gaps by tracking and watching all performances in the country and providing data and statistics on the number of venues, performances staged, …
A new age of digital theatre is rising on the horizon, and its dawn is being accelerated by the global COVID-19 pandemic. A new platform developed to facilitate this concept and keep audienc…
Does a diva ever really die? It's a fitting question from the reigning queen of endurance art, Marina Abramović. Her first original opera, 7 Deaths of Maria Callas, is a tribute to the t…
By making his 12-year-old dream come true, director Mohmed Abdalla aims to send a message of hope to all mime theatre artists in Egypt, urging them to continue their efforts. Halawes (Halluc…
In 2017, the cosmetics company Nivea released an advert that was promptly pulled: a white woman's back, draped in a diaphanous, blanched robe, could be seen juxtaposed against the caption "W…
For more than three decades, playwright Winsome Pinnock has been at the forefront of new writing, often experimenting with form as well as documenting the lives of Black Britons. Her new pla…
"We have in essence what could be the most beautiful country in the world, we have great weather, we have friendlier people than I have met travelling elsewhere, and every seven years or so,…
The festival took place in Alexandria between 22 and 26 August 2021. During the official closing ceremony that took place at the Anfoushi Cultural Palace Theatre, the Theatre Without Fund Fe…
The play casts famous actors like Eyad Nassar, Sama Ibrahim and Sherif Desouky as well as singers Mohamed El-Sharnouby and Carmen Soliman Egyptian theatre play Yama Fel Gerab Ya Hawy, starri…
Danastri Rizqi Nabilah, a filmmaker from Yogyakarta " a city in Indonesia known for its education and art " has no choice but to sell snacks after losing up to 40% of her income during the p…
The 28th iteration of the International Aspendos Opera and Ballet Festival will kick off with the performance of the Murat IV opera on Sept. 4. The festival will present five exclusive perfo…
Archaeological excavations have started at the ancient city of Savatra, located in the Karatay district of central Turkey's Konya province, aiming to unearth the history of the site that dat…
It's hard to think of a more awkward time for Yuri Ng to have become the City Contemporary Dance Company (CCDC)'s artistic director. Last January, when he formally took up the post, Covid-19…
Indeed in the Baroque period, before the invention of the conductors, harpsichordists (who were usually also the composer) would lead the orchestra, establishing the harmonic structure and e…
'Time waits for no military man!'. Thus, on a punctual note, Subira, A New Musical opened on Friday, 30th of July 2021 at Kenya National Theatre at exactly 6pm as indicated on the posters. F…
Imagine you suffered terrible injustices that in your day and age were just the norm, that your devotion to your calling meant you entered history as a passive victim and not as an agent in …
Imagine, if you will, one of those old-fashioned TV game shows with two doors. Behind Door Number One is the Odysseus we all know from the Homerian epic: valiant hero, master strategizer, sa…
