*Content Warning: This article discusses and describes new musicals that deal with such topics as police violence against the Black community* The future of Broadway is effervescently bright…
Running until 4 January, The festival is hosting 29 performances on 14 stages across Cairo. Egypt launched the 13th edition of the National Theatre Festival on Sunday, under strict safety me…
I saw Amid the Waters amid the hustle and bustle of Tehran's downtown at Tehran City Theatre Complex in August. SÄmirih RezÄeÄ«, who wrote, directed, and played the lead role, is of …
A couple of days ago I watched the live stream of Misfits, from the Queen's Theatre Hornchurch. The show comprises four excellent fractured monologues, written by Kenny Emson, Sadie Hasler, …
For the past twenty-three years, The Old Globe's production of Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas!: The Musical has become an established and cherished holiday tradition in the San Di…
Chennai-based theatre group, The Art Factory, debuts with an anthology of Tamil and English short plays Aparna R had no background in theatre whatsoever, except the odd dramatics classes bac…
Independence in Barbados is not without its many activities in celebration. We are accustomed to the National Independence Festival of Creative Arts [NIFCA] with its plethora of artistic wor…
It's December 22nd, not quite the night before Christmas but not far off, and the news has just reached me that Kamikaze productions will leave Madrid's Pavón theatre, with its spectacula…
Review: Sydney Theatre Company's The Picture of Dorian Gray, directed by Kip Williams Australian theatres are slowly coming back to life. And, with Kip Williams' exuberantly inventive adapta…
Five years ago in November, a new space for contemporary dance and performance opened its doors in downtown Sofia. It breathed fresh air into the vivid Bulgarian independent performance scen…
Kwasha! Theatre Company's Peeling Shadows, which has just ended a limited run at the Market Theatre, is one of those productions that utilize so many unconventional theatrical elements, leav…
When Abafumi went on what would be their last tour, Robert Serumaga, who had not gone with his company on the Italian tour, was back in Kenya fighting Uganda's 'return to the shadows'. Not w…
In Their Words, a staged reading which recently took place at the Tin Town Theatre in Johannesburg is a harbinger of things to come. By definition, a staged reading is a form of theatre wher…
Amid dramatic music overlay, the most authentic characters emerged. Kurt Uy, Christian Elán Ortiz and Rolanda Watts played a multitude of dramatis personae with great truth. Stuart Willia…
An interview with Ryan Shaw In our new digital era, it was an honor to have a Zoom sit-down with 3-time Grammy nominee and Broadway star Ryan Shaw on his new tribute album to Marvin Gaye…
A Christmas Carol is a seasonal standard. In a normal year, there are a couple of versions to be enjoyed, usually led by the Old Vic in London, but this winter it feels like there's an epide…
Given the year's unsettling mixed-bag of a global pandemic, racial reckoning, political strife, and various man-made and natural crises (murder hornets, anyone?), the chaos of 2020 has becom…
The sprawling township of Alexandra came alive from Friday 23 " Sunday 25 October when the Alexandra Theatre Academy hosted the inaugural Current Affairs Theatre Festival at the Alexsan Reso…
The six-month mentorship program by the Indianostrum Open Theatre School is open to anyone interested in exploring a career in arts "It took a decade to gradually build our theatre, our repe…
The Red Femicycle brings into sharp focus Gender-Based Violence in a gut-wrenching and hard-hitting way! The Red Femicyle is not a production for the fainthearted, why should it be for…
Okay, COVID-19 really sucks. This play opened and closed on the same night, 4 November, as the second lockdown this year closed all entertainment venues in the country. Luckily, there had be…
In October 2017, a group of Latinx playwrights came together in New York City to share space, build community, and grow together as theatre artists. What started out as an informal meeting a…
Sometimes a gesture of gratitude comes in the form of a carte blanche. Akira Shirai, the departing artistic director of Kanagawa Arts Theatre (KAAT), decided to show thanks to his long-time …
Written by: Elizabeth Kerr Sitting in a decidedly Hong Kong-flavoured café in Prince Edward, Leung Ming-kai and Kate Reilly present as an old married couple, even if they've only been bound…
Classical murder mysteries end with a neat solution " and with the arrest of the perpetrator. Postmodern murder mysteries play games with the genre, turning it upside down and inside out. So…