When Benito Vasquez, Marissa Castillo, and Jorge Diaz founded TEATRX in 2018, they never could have imagined what fate had in store for the Latinx theatre company two years later. The trio l…
Grzegorz Jarzyna " the head and artistic director of TR Warszawa (Poland)" responds to Boris Yukhananov and discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected his work, TR Warszawa, and the th…
Inside Look at Family Album Artistic and Financial Director, Stas Zhyrkov and Director, Matteo Spiazzi, give their take on their production of Family Album and its impact on our current …
The Korean theatre company ETS, which is an acronym for Eye To Soul, staged Charles Mee's Big Love (2001) at the Haneul Round Theatre in Seoul, Korea, in June 2019 for the ten-year anniversa…
This interview with Xuexi Li and Tianjiao Li was conducted by Xunnan Li. Both interviewees are part of The Clock God from the West production team, a play selected for the International Onli…
Red Polka Productions' English play Chitraa, based on Rabindranath Tagore's Chitrangada, went digital for the first time with the original cast on May 28th. "When we released the play we had…
Yesterday, I took a break from my sunny local park and turned a room in my house into the Finborough fringe theatre. You know the kind of thing: very small, very dark, very hot and airless, …
On Thursday, June 4th, Jasen Mphepo Little Theatre in Zimbabwe showcased the first of many shows as part of their way of responding and navigating the lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic. …
"The puppet says everything that needs to be said so that we are not affected. When we truly believe in them, they give us love, trust, and sincerity." This is the epigraph from the book Fai…
Boris Yukhananov " the Artistic Director of the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre, Moscow " discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the theatre community in Russia and the Stanislavsky El…
For generations, bamboo theatres have been a thread that ties together Hong Kong's present and past. Made of bamboo sticks and clad with metal sheets to protect them from the weather, they a…
The world has changed significantly not only in the last four months but more largely since the turn of the century. Within the decade, we will have celebrated the centennial of television, …
Adaptation became one of my "things" academically sometime in the early 2000s. I was and still am delighted with the versatility of this academic field and it's become one of my go-to tools,…
The coronavirus pandemic has completely reconfigured society's world over. Health experts say the new normal, in most countries, which sees many cuddling with masks and observing social dist…
Writing is currently a challenge for many reasons " an important one being that we don't know which kind of coming world we are writing for. If I manage to reboot my academic writing again, …
Zoom became the tool-de-jour for work meetings and social interaction with family and friends " and its potential for creating Lockdown Theatre was immediately explored, using either Faceboo…
Troupes turn to telework in a bid to keep audiences entertained The performing arts are built on interactions between live audiences and artists " whether ballet dancers, circus performers, …
If any musical can attempt to live up to this title in these troubled times, it must be this show from Graeae, a theatre company whose mission is to champion the work of Deaf and disabled ar…
We are living, I have frequently been told, through weird times. Maybe. But do weird times necessarily require weird art? Do bad times provoke bad art? Well, one of the most unusual response…
This post is dedicated to theatre-makers everywhere in the world. In his book, Epidemics and Society, From the Black Death to the Present, Frank M. Snowden makes an important observation: "E…
The tribute will include readings from his collection of poems Duniya Sabki and a rehearsed reading of Machine During these times when we are witnessing the inhuman treatment of migrant work…
On April 3, Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) announced the cancellation of this year's edition of its annual World Theatre Festival Shizuoka, which was due to be held from April 25 to …
Improv artistes Balasree Viswanathan and Laxmi Priya talk about the creative spin they have given to their performances Balasree Viswanathan and Arjun Mehra, co-artistic director and artisti…
The frame lingered some seconds too long on Frances McDormand, playing Jocasta, just long enough to glimpse her listening mournfully, painfully, to Oscar Isaac, playing Oedipus. On a stage, …
In his wide-ranging, and widely read, survey of postwar British theatre, called State of the Nation, the Guardian critic Michael Billington sets out his stall: in the introduction t…