"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 …
*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…