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…
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…