When Rebecca Greene Udden graduated from Rice University, she decided to make Houston her permanent home and sow the seeds for a woman-centered theatre movement in Texas' largest city. In 19…
This article has been translated from it's original Yiddish by Vassili Schedrin The year 2020 withered away, a difficult, dramatic year with much sorrow and loss. People, however, do not giv…
Charles Mee's Heaven on Earth conveys the message that our civilization, too, has come to an end; and life goes on. Encompassing bits of text, skit-like sections, songs, dances, a projected …
Theaters are now opening virtually after remaining closed for months due to the coronavirus outbreak. Theater enthusiasts will now be able to watch performances online on the website tiyatro…
This production delivers a powerful dramatic experience that possesses you like a dybbuk, long after you closed the screen.
Within the acoustics of Arter's Karbon, a hall for sound installations and concerts is a curation by Melih Fereli, conceived by David Tudor and realized by Composers Inside Electronics Inc.,…
Through a series of virtual performances and conversations, Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts adapts movement and dance to the online medium. "When we started out, we were perplexed. We d…
The COVID-19 pandemic has spawned an interesting social paradox: even as online platforms have helped us maintain valuable interactions in a time of physical isolation, they have also highli…
December 9, 2020, marked an important anniversary in Jewish theater history: a centennial of the world premiere of The Dybbuk, Or Between Two Worlds, the most often staged Russian/Yiddish/He…
An intriguing, quirky, movement and aerial experience, The Insectinside performed by the company of Grounded Aerial with music by Medeski Martin & Wood is a lockdown show to watch. F…
Ten prompts for writing about the year 2020: 1) "It started with a slight cough, a rather dry cough." Explore the sense of a beginning; remember how you felt when the news of the pandemic gr…
We live in a world that is demanding change, moving at a rapid pace while simultaneously crawling along. Where I've seen many theaters particularly quick to respond publicly, is in regard to…
Marie Curie, whose image as an unsmiling scientist wearing a high-necked, black dress has been immortalized in her numerous portraits, may seem an unlikely heroine for a stage musical, a gen…
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 the Mo…
Last week I watched Sarah Grochala's award-winning short play, S-27, now streaming from the website of the Finborough Theatre, where it had its 2009 premiere. It is inspired by the work o…
Artist and Director, Susie Lawrence, takes on the challenging aspects of Covid-theatre to a new level with the creation of a Minecraft production of Comedy of Errors. What do you do when you…
"That's what we as lighting designers do " we observe, interpret, and find ways to recreate an emotional response without directly telling an audience how to feel." Before he designed the ex…
Surge Madrid is a performing arts festival that usually takes place in May. However, this year it was re-scheduled to October due to the lockdown. Focusing on alternative theatre, the festiv…
As we bid the pandemic year goodbye and herald the new year, it's worth asking about the kind of society Canada wants to be in 2021 and onward. I envision a country where people are not judg…
On Saturday 9th of January, Polish National Theatre will stream its 2015 production of Kordian by Juliusz SÅ‚owacki. The streaming will be accompanied by English surtitles. The prod…
Lights up. Enter a troll. Literally. Circle Jerk, returning to stream on demand January 1 " 17, 2021, is the latest offering from Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley's exciting Brooklyn-based …
The festival's fifth edition took place from November 16-20. Despite Covid-19 making even a one-off event, let alone a whole festival, difficult, the fifth Sharm El-Sheikh International Thea…
BShreyas Talpade hopes his new digital theatre initiative will create new opportunities for artists and technicians. Theatre and performing artists who have been struggling against odds due …
The issue with Zoom theatre is that, oftentimes, the two do not comply: theatrical performance is not built for digital platforms; digitization is not designed for dramatics. Many theatre co…
The Korean theatre company The Nanhee premiered its new production Mimaji!, written and directed by Myung-Wha Kim, at Bom Studio Theatre in Seoul, Korea, on November 26, 2020. Mimaji is the …