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Eva Doumbia is a writer, director and actress. Her creative residence in New Orleans for the development of "Authophagies" was postponed due to the COVID-19 crisis, as well as the premier…
As a response to the damage the Covid-19 pandemic has caused in the theatre world, the Dramaturgs' Network (a volunteer arts organization, based in the UK) has launched a new project: Invisi…
So far, it could be said that the National Theatre is having a good lockdown. Every week, this flagship streams one of its stock of NT Live films, which are always a welcome reminder of the …
It all starts innocently enough. Two actors (Damian Sosnowski and Alan Al-Murtatha) and an actress (Natalia Bielecka) take the stage. They are dressed in loose, everyday, dark-coloured cloth…
The Covid-19 Emergency has been and still is a challenge for theatre companies, institutions, and artists that had radically to re-think their own practice in terms of social distancing and …
IOTF PS + 11: EXTENDED May 16"31, 2020 IOTF is an annual online theatre festival showcasing the work of diverse global artists. IOTF PS + 11: EXTENDED offers a two-week extension to this yea…
BLIXT Locally Grown was born on "a car ride between Scottsbluff and Lincoln," Becky Boesen recalls, "after teaching a workshop, with big open skies above us." BLIXT's co-founder, Petra Wahlq…
Written by The Cultural Services of the French Embassy of the United States. Interview Conducted by Nicole Birmann Bloom (Program Officer, Performing Arts, French Cultural Services). Transla…
David Malcolm has been one of the key organizers of the Between. PomiÄ™dzy festival ever since it was created in 2010. In this essay, he presents his recollections concerning various even…
This article is part of the Dramaturgs' Network Invisible Diaries series. Woke up today to packed bags laid out on the living room carpet. My four-year-old is going on holiday. To her …
During an art and culture online ubiquity that was expanded in the course of the global pandemic, the International Online Theatre Festival (IOTF) launched its 2nd edition on the 15th of Apr…
Unusual times need unusual solutions. We certainly live in times that are challenging, but they also provide an opportunity to do things differently. The Between-PomiÄ™dzy Festival of Lit…
While theatres remain closed, the way we watch Shakespeare is changing. When I picture the audiences Shakespeare would have written for, I think of the groundlings in Shakespeare in Love(…
Professor S.E. Gontarski is the honorary patron of Beckett Research Group in GdaÅ„sk, created and directed by Professor Tomasz WiÅ›niewski. BRGiG is the organizer of The University…
How did diverse balcony performances emerge in Serbia during the coronavirus epidemic and how did they become a metaphor for a polarized society? Since the beginning of the coronavirus epide…
Because of COVID-19, Italian dancers' work has abruptly stopped. In order to underline this difficult moment and his forced absence from the stage, global dance icon Roberto Bolle grew a bea…
In this time of isolation, wouldn't it be nice to take a virtual visit to the park? Fear not. PBS is streaming this past summer's Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing…
Germany has more theatres and concert halls than almost any other country in the world. From its many small, private theatres to the large opera houses, stage designers are always working to…
Anya Richkind is an emerging Brooklyn-based playwright who has taken many different roles in theatrical arts since she was little. She has written many experimental theatrical creations that…
L. P. Hartley's much-recycled observation that 'the past is a foreign country' seems an oddly befitting introduction to Opole-based Kochanowski Theatre's 2004 production of Shakespeare's Mac…
His photography is undoubtfully radiating, soulful, with a hint of edgy energy. Marc J. Franklin is the Principal Photographer and Assistant Photo Editor at Playbill, and his work includes c…
There are very few silver linings that have developed from the current catastrophic health crisis, but the wider accessibility of world-class performances is one positive outcome to have eme…
Steadily gathering supporters online is a crowd-funding campaign that trains its specific energies on a frequently overlooked segment of India's vast marginalized populace: artists and artis…
It is a full house. Full house on a Friday? That's rare here. Anyway, we're almost packed like sardines. I'm sitting next to a lovely three-year-old and her mother. Lovely, until she starts …
She's an ordinary young woman, and she really doesn't know what to think. After all, things are way out of control. Out of order. She knows that the natural world is pretty fucked and that n…
