These artists are passionate and insightful, yet the dancers and musicians are not acclimated to speaking their minds to audiences. What emerges is a raw and thoughtful narrative with a sens…
Angola Camp 13, the multiple-award winning South African State Theatre production would not have happened had the powers-that-be had their way according to its creator, celebrated writer, an…
The 2020 ASSITEJ World Congress & Performing Arts Festival / MIRAI 2020 is scheduled to take place in Japan, between 22nd March 2021 and 1st April 2021. It was previously scheduled to ta…
The thing about UnRavelled is that it's one of those plays that even a week after seeing it random moments from the play continue to knock at the corners of my brain while I'm focused on mor…
Review: Galup, by Ian Wilkes and Poppy van Oorde-Grainger, Perth Festival with Same Drum and Performing Lines. Galup is a "theatricalized" walking tour created by Ian Wilkes and Poppy van Oo…
South Africa's theatre fraternity has reacted with heartbreak to the announcement that Cape Town's famous Fugard Theatre has closed its doors for good. Named after the playwright Athol Fugar…
Giti Theatre Group broke records raising funds for flood victims in Lorestan, Iran with a remarkable 10 days of staged readings of Iranian plays. Dr. Ruhollah Jafari, founder, and director o…
Stage Russia is an international Theatre HD project formed by Eddie Aronoff, an American producer living in Moscow. Since the pandemic, Stage Russia has expanded its programming across the w…
Held under the theme "The Cultural Economy and the Economy of Culture" the Culture Summit Abu Dhabi kicked off on 8 March Mohamed Khalifa Al-Mubarak, chairman of the Department of Culture an…
Manimals, created by Michelle Hudson and her team, shines as a piece that accomplishes the difficult taste of engaging audiences across the computer screen. The full version of the articl…
Tamanoir is a French Immersive Studio dedicated to creating international experiences, lying at the intersection of immersive theatre, dance and interactive VR. Located at the cutti…
Review: Whistleblower, directed by Arielle Gray, Wyatt Nixon-Lloyd, and Tim Watts. The Last Great Hunt for Perth Festival. The Whistleblower is a cross between a choose-your-own-adventure bo…
The theatre group's staging of the play Kando Ningal, Ente Kuttiye?, based on the life of the rights campaigner, tugs at heartstrings. With a hard-hitting play, the Navarang Theatre group he…
Playing Beatie Bow is the coming-of-age story of the teenage Abigail, who, from her home in Sydney's The Rocks, slips back in time to 1873. Here, she is taken in by the Tallisker/Bow family,…
"You are not here to see a play. You are here to see me settle a dispute with Ravi," Asha Jain, real-life mother of actor, director, and playwright, Ravi Jain, says at the top of their devis…
While theatre in its early days existed in a strong relationship with verse, the social, cultural, and technological developments of the eighteenth- and nineteenth centuries strained the tie…
The TX Theatre's double bill Mnquma & Ithemba is rich modern African contemporary dance-based storytelling. Located in the heart of the bustling township of Tembisa is theÂ�…
Colorful graffiti marks the facade of a shuttered shopping mall. People navigate their way around chain partitions and orange traffic cones. It's a scene that looks familiar to anyone who ha…
As the events of last year made clear, the police have a problem with race on both sides of the Atlantic. In the UK, BAME people are more than twice as likely to die in police custody while …
Review: The Cherry Orchard, directed by Clare Watson. Black Swan State Theatre Company for the Perth Festival. Stories get told over and over, each version sitting atop every other in a neve…
"No one's gonna believe me anyway," says Barbara repeatedly. She knows there is no point in answering her father's questions. The ruling surprised no one, yet she accepts it. She is not guil…
One could say that French-speaking communities around Asia are very lucky to be able to attend various stage plays every year and enjoy watching French-speaking comedians on stage on a regul…
As a female-identifying artist deeply invested in women's stories (and as a staunch feminist), I've been following the work of Artemisia Theatre for years. Their dedication to their mission …
He may live in New York, but playwright J.T. Rogers has spent a lot of time in Japan over the past few years, and it's not just because he loves the food there ("especially the white sliced …
Ossama Halal is a Syrian theater director, choreographer, and actor. He started his artistic journey as a hip-hop dancer and trainer in 1994 until 2000. He graduated from the Acting Departme…