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M(O)ther is an international online collaboration to be shown August 9, 2020: 2pm EST, 8pm South Africa, 9pm Iraq and Turkey, 10:30pm Iran. It will feature original music, modern poetries (F…
We continue our conversation with Espi TomiÄić, a Croatian playwright and "boy from the neighborhood." While we closely examined his two plays in the previous part of the interview, h…
The following review is based on the Snowdrops and Chlorine script, which differs slightly from the play's hybrid recording. To watch the Snowdrops and Chlorine recording, please visit Stagi…
Author: Jelena Gvozden Note: It would be great if the two parts of the interview could be hyperlinked to each other once they are published.  Espi TomiÄić is a new playwright on t…
Anty-gone Triptych Part II is a melange of movement, song, poetry, and emotion. Giving the viewer very few explicit narrative cues, the production creates a vulnerable and engaging relations…
Founded in Siena in 2009, The In-Box Project is part festival, part funding body, and part umbrella organization. It involves 79 partners across two national arts networks. The partners incl…
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said the planned restoration and upgrade of the iconic National Theatre will generate about 10,000 jobs during and after the…
As the name implies, physical theatre is more like a contact sport. Actors have to constantly engage physically on stage as they create, rehearse and perform their work. There is even greate…
In these uncertain times, as distance has taken on special meaning, the screen has gained a renewed primacy. Through an online portal at Mixer, 12 artists enter the void where experience mee…
The "ironic, but reliable" version recreates the theater experience in the finest details. The Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater in St. Petersburg (not to be confused with the Bolshoi Theate…
Nils Haarmann " dramaturg at the Schaubühne " respond to Grzegorz Jarzyna. The discussion focuses how Schaubühne responded the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact it had on its immediate and …
ArtsLab explores the phenomenon of 'light' in its first module through theatre, art, music, and dance. Light reflects and refracts; it creates drama and gives birth to shadows. Textbook defi…
Now more than ever, it is essential that post-secondary nursing programs train students to deal with real-world scenarios. The sudden onset of COVID-19 has further highlighted the critical r…
Funding in Zimbabwean Theatre is a key challenge. There is no doubt that if one were to do an assessment of the state of Zimbabwe's creative and culture industry, they would arrive at the co…
A doctor speaks about events they think will put public health at risk. Instead of responding with gratitude, political officials seek to silence and discredit the doctor. Is this in China, …
As the new reality of daily life amid a global pandemic settles in, many people are getting accustomed to somewhat isolated lifestyles as they abide by social distancing measures and work re…
From classic Andrew Lloyd Webber plays to the release of a recording of the original cast of Hamilton, theatre lovers have been able to stream the best of the stage at home during the lockdo…
This is the age of marketing, not the age of criticism. To give an example, I'll start with a small incident that has a wider symbolic value. In November 2013, a new show called Gastronau…
Award-winning disabled documentary filmmaker, photographer, artist, published writer, and investigative journalist Richard Butchins has been exploring the word of epidemic theatre through a …
The executive director of Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre, Steve Freeman, could have been speaking for the whole performing arts industry when he said recently: "The current economic lan…
Saudi Arabia's Minister of Culture, Badr bin Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Farhan Al Saud, announced that the Kingdom is preparing to add music, theatre, and art departments in its universities.…
Hamilton Disney+ "The world turned upside down", proclaim the cast of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton (2016) after an epic retelling of siege of Yorktown, which led to the British surrender an…
This article is part of the Dramaturgs' Network's Invisible Diaries series. In a moment of freedom from time and gravity. Noticing information entering my body As if there is nothing e…
Lorraine Hansberry's debut, A Raisin in the Sun, was the first drama written by a black woman to be produced on Broadway, where it opened in 1959. It is now an American classic, but it's …
"They've locked us in here and they're going to wait for the virus to finish us off." Thus goes a caption on a WhatsApp GIF Dalen sends to fellow retail workers. The workers have just found …
