2,042 stories from The Theatre Times
Ashley Tata is a Brooklyn-based director and maker of multimedia works. I had the pleasure of speaking with Ashley about previous projects, upcoming pandemic productions, and future goals. V…
An intimate listening party of The Empire Builders, an immersive audio production performed by the Kwasha! Theatre Company, is a bold experiment in alternative theatre! Presented by the F…
Nyokabi Macharia is a Kenyan, performer and all-around lover of life. You know those people who in their résumés have the description "works well under pressure?" She is one of them. Descr…
Performed as part of the Market Theatre's annual Black History Month Celebrations, which have been supported by the US Embassy since 2016, having been initiated by Artistic Director James…
The new professor had a choice. He arrived early to a meeting to discover a senior faculty member lying in ambush, armed with a crude joke and disparaging words for a researcher"a woman"who'…
Transmission written by Stuart McKenzie. Directed by Miranda Harcourt and Stuart McKenzie. 20 April " 2 May 2021. BATS Theatre, Wellington In The Theatre and Its Double, Antonin Artaud write…
Ramzi Choukair is a Syrian-French actor and theater director. After obtaining his degree at the Damascus Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts (Acting section) in 1994; he did an internship (199…
In five years, in ten years, in twenty, we will remember what it felt like to live through the pandemic shutdown? Of course, we will remember the main facts: the sounds of unceasing ambulanc…
Adishakti Theatre Arts' latest musical, Bhoomi, is adapted from Sarah Joseph's Malayalam play Bhoomirakshasam. What happens when polar opposites collide? When differing perspectives, particu…
Leading theatre directors in Europe are warning that the pandemic shutdowns are not only threatening the long-term viability of theatres"they are also seriously risking the development of th…
Simon Stone made a contemporary version of Medea by radically adapting Euripides's Greek tragedy about the daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis, who is abandoned by her husband and murders …
The kitchen has long been a significant trope in our civilization. This began in ancient fires and evolved to modern hot plates, which provoke questions of who we are as society, how we stay…
The Russian Case:Â History, politics and eternal values Spring, with all of its uncertain promise, is a time of awakening. In Moscow, theatres are gradually waking from their enforced hibe…
Men continue to outnumber women and hold the most prestigious positions in theatre programmes, a major new study of diversity across European theatres has revealed. Gender Equality and Diver…
Krzysztof Warlikowski's Nowy Theatre in Warsaw together with Komuna/Warszawa, La Comedie de Clermont Ferrand, and Athens Epidaurus Festival has announced a call for participants in the Secon…
It's hard to categorize Anson Mak Hoi-shan. In a video call in early March, the only time the fifty-something artist, filmmaker, phonographer, musician and professor seems at a loss for word…
Over the past year we've become used to a variety of home theatre: recordings of live performances, streamed shows, online films. But I haven't really explored much sonic theatre, those play…
Madsoc Theatre opened their season with Stanley Mambo's adaption of Tony Layton's Once an Actress performed by Charity Dlodlo. The atmosphere was electric and there was palpable excitement a…
Does a subjective theatre piece encourage a subjective critical response? I think it might, especially when it's a memory play about dementia, so here goes: First I turn off the lights, then…
James Shapiro is a Shakespeare scholar and a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of eight informative books that each have uniquely share…
Today, 23rd of April 2021, is the 405 anniversary of Shakespeare's death. In two months, on the 23rd of June, it will be five years since the Brexit's referendum. That day my notion of being…
The National Children's Theatre's purpose-built outdoor/open-air "Imagination Theatre", a development necessitated by the Covid-19 pandemic but which has now become the perfect children's th…
Theatre group, Sri Venkateswara Surabhi Theatre, Hyderabad, is moving online with a month-long program Thirty days, nine plays and 180 shows " a treat awaits theatre lovers as the iconic Sri…
This story is part of Sixth Tone's five-year anniversary project Changemakers. When given the chance to portray either a domestic abuse survivor or a victim of body-shaming, Qi Xi felt…
At the time of the writing of this article, the historic events of January 6th, January 20th, and beyond had not yet occurred. The following thoughts were captured in the anxious and stressf…
