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The past year has, in many ways, turned a sharper lens towards our bodies, particularly our physical relationship to the world around us. The pandemic-fueled absence of bodily connection, an…
The 39th Fadjr International Theater Festival celebrated a wide range of performances, from staged plays and street performances to radio plays and television plays (Teletheater), over ten d…
The Madras Players' Trinity, filmed by a four-camera set up, will be made available for a global audience in June. In 2020, the celebrated trinity of Carnatic music "Thyagaraja Swamy, Muthus…
Every month, Etcetera gazes into the soul of a performer. Artistic interest instead of human interest. This time, the honor goes to Brazilian choreographer Lia Rodrigues, who works in Maré,…
I think I can safely say that polymath playwright Philip Ridley has had a good lockdown. In March last year, when The Beast of Blue Yonder, his new show for Southwark Playhouse, was closed d…
In August 2020, Battery Dance shifted its annual Battery Dance Festival to a virtual format. The Festival is a storied free public dance festival commanding a large audience each year. Shift…
The premiere of La realidad, the new play by DarÃo Facal and Pedro Cantalejo, was in March at the Corral de Comedias, Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), one of the oldest and most beautiful t…
Pale Sister is the latest adaptation of the Sophoclean tragedy, Antigone (c. 441 BC), written by Irish playwright Colm TóibÃn especially for award-winning (and fellow countrywoman) per…
On the 21st March 2020, I put out a simple message on my Facebook profile in response to the increasing use of online video communications due to the imminent COVID-19 lockdown: "Be creative…
It's been a decade of a year, and The Geffen Playhouse (or Geffen Stayhouse as they have been referring to themselves since the pandemic changed our lives) has been reinventing their theatri…
Lerumo, written and directed by Malaika Ntsoeu and featuring Malaika Motshabi Ntsoeu, Malefu Mariti and Tankiso Sebabole, just closed on 11 April 2021. It was part of the just ended Kuwamba …
"Waking up in the morning, thinking about so many things, I just wish things would get better / I'm trying to get rid of them, but nothing seems to stay the same / Woke up in the morning, do…
In December 2020, Teatro Stabile di Torino worked with 63 theatre artists on seven radical, experimental digital theatre projects. The aim? To offer creative opportunities, while also puttin…
Robbie McCauley, a ground-breaking playwright and performer has died. She received an OBIE Award and a Bessie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Performance for her play, Sally's Rape.…
If you're an out-of-work actor stuck at home in a lockdown, you've probably asked yourself this question a few times: Are online acting classes worth it? If this resonates with you, perhaps …
Igor Golyak is the Artistic Director of Arlekin Players Theatre. Arlekin Players Theatre has embraced virtual theatre during the pandemic, and their upcoming show, chekhovOS/an experimental …
Located in graffiti-laden downtown Manhattan where the East Village and NoHo meet at 47 Great Jones Street just off the Bowery"CultureHub"a worldwide art and technology community, is a resul…
ANNOUNCING: IOTF 2021: THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL ONLINE THEATRE FESTIVAL Future Directions: R3 May 20, 2021 " June 4, 2021 IOTF is back! Now in its third year, this year's festival showcases 3…
Uncertainty can sometimes provoke creativity. When the opening of Shereen Roushbaiani's one-woman show, Saving Britney, at the Old Red Lion theatre was cancelled in January, its creators Dav…
Chennai-based theatre director Prasanna Ramaswamy's new play, This Is My Name, is an adaptation of Paul Zacharia's Malayalam novella Ithanente Peru that interprets Nathuram Godse as a charac…
Laila, a special co-production by the Hong Kong Arts Festival (HKAF) and the Finnish National Opera and Ballet (FNOB), promises to be a key highlight at the 50th HKAF. This marks the oper…
In most parts of Traditional Africa, theatre was a prerogative of the woman. Women were the storytellers, the humor-artisans, the word-spinners whose grease moved the wheels of society. Men …
The Glitter Garden by George Fowler and Lori Leigh. Directed by Lori Leigh. Circa Theatre, Wellington, 30 September " 10 October 2020. Interview with playwrights George Fowler and Lori Leigh…
Review: Dogged, directed by Declan Greene. Griffin Theatre Company in association with Force Majeure. Dingo (Sandy Greenwood, a Gumbaynggirr, Dunghutti, and Bundjalung actor) stands facing t…
Leaders of the women's suffrage movement relied on public performance to promote their cause. They used marches, plays, and demonstrations at baseball games to recruit women to join their…
