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Tim Norwood describes himself as an emerging theatre-maker from Sheffield. He's queer, disabled, and happily mining them both for material. He uses personal and confessional writing to make …
The new play Insulted. Belarus(sia) was written in September 2020 by Andrei Kureichik, a prominent Belarusian playwright and member of the Coordination Council of Belarus, about the first mo…
With a larger than usual stage, spaced out seating for a masked audience and actors armed with negative COVID-19 test results, the National School of Drama is preparing for its first product…
Back in January, when English director Lindsay Posner visited Tokyo for preparatory meetings to stage the iconic courtroom drama Twelve Angry Men at Bunkamura Theatre Cocoon in Shibuya Ward,…
As Agnipankh is televised, Mita Vashisht reflects on the shifts in theatre due to the pandemic. Under the spotlight, the silhouette of a woman becomes visible. Clad in a silk saree, she is s…
There's no denying that COVID-19 has been a financial and connectivity nightmare for artists. Theatre, in particular, thrives off of that human-to-human connection: it's what brings in theat…
Online streaming of videos of kabuki plays, including an adaptation of a manga and an animated film by Oscar-winning Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki, began on Wednesday amid the novel coron…
Paul Desveaux is the director of Compagnie L'Héliotrope. In the United States, he recently staged Pollock, written by Fabrice Melquiot, with two American actors. The production, which…
Actor and artistic director Atul Kumar speaks on the need to experiment with 'form' to make theatre more engaging A woman haunted by insomnia, a djinn, and a hallucinatory mind during …
Niayesh Nahavandian is a young, Iranian female performing artist that has lived and worked in Italy for five years. She has performed and studied with various Italian theater companies inclu…
Mid-September brought us a week of new, Polish theatre productions, and a sneak peek behind the curtains into the inner workings of Warsaw's cultural institutions amid the pandemic's second …
While we believed in the upward mobility of America in every way, we became shockingly aware of our tragic limits. Â In "An Astronaut's Tale," we get every sense of looming and desperate f…
If the United States again accuses Russia of interfering in the election, it will almost certainly be the Vakhtangov Theatre that is to blame because it is the culprit of its own, all-theatr…
Review: Wonnangatta by Angus Cerini, directed by Jessica Arthur, Sydney Theatre Company Theatre is back in Sydney after the COVID"induced hiatus decimated the cultural life of the city. W…
Performing arts festivals and opportunities to enjoy live entertainment have been few and far between this year due to the ongoing pandemic, but dramatist Oriza Hirata, 57, has hopes for his…
Basing his work on Naguib Mahfouz's 1981 polyphonic novel Afrah Al-Qobba's Wedding Song, the director Mohamed Youssef El-Mansour adds his touch with an unexpected ending. Afrah Al-Qobba (Wed…
Actor Shernaz Patel speaks about supervising the transition of theatre to benefit an online audience at Aadyam, and what this shift means to the art form's future Shernaz Patel holds on to t…
African musical theatre seems to be growing by leaps and bounds. In the last couple of years, African directors have exhibited a keen interest in the genre. Nigeria's Bolanle Austin-Peters w…
"I'm so glad I saw it live!" That's what I said after the nerve-wracking Game 6 of the NBA Eastern Conference Playoff Series between the Toronto Raptors and Boston Celtics that I watched wit…
When the history of British theatre's response to COVID-19 comes to be written, the names of two men will feature prominently: Nicholas Hytner and Nick Starr. The "two Nicks" were the creati…
Even though history has seen different disasters and humanitarian crises, one fact remains: we try to understand what is happening by seeing how others coped, comparing our reaction to their…
In June 2017 the eminent New Zealand actor Dame Kate Harcourt celebrated her 90th birthday at Circa Theatre in Wellington, where she was in rehearsals for a new play Destination Beehive. Two…
Sweat, by Lynn Nottage, is a cautionary tale about how the effects of poverty, or the threat of it, breeds divisiveness among the middle class and poor. Thanks in large part to the actors' c…
In March 2020, Colden Lamb had the opportunity to sit down with award-winning costume designer Judith Dolan and ask her about her work on multiple productions of Candide with legendary di…
Anyone looking for evidence of just how devastating the COVID-19 pandemic has been to Australia's performing arts industry need look no further than its flagship company, Opera Australia. On…
