With their sole means of livelihood being out of bounds, members of Sri Venkateswara Surabhi Theatre are seeking funds to tide over the crisis. Members of Hyderabad-based Sri Venkateswara Su…
The earth's oceans are under grave threat. Scientists in many fields have pointed to the large-scale negative shifts brought about by human-made pollutants, mining, and overfishi…
The coronavirus empties streets and theatres. Because we prefer virtual theatre to none at all, we give the stage to some of the artists whose premieres got canceled. How does corona impact …
Reviewing theatre now means reviewing the film. Knowing that Emma Rice's Old Vic 2018 production of Wise Children, her typically rambunctious version of Angela Carter's last novel, published…
Individual tastes notwithstanding, it can be argued that the best theatre is that which connects us to our own humanity and lived experience. Though the COVID-19 outbreak, and ensuing mass q…
Milo Rau was to receive an honorary doctorate from the UGent in March. Corona decided differently, but Etcetera decided to go ahead and publish the essay Rau wrote for this occasion. The ess…
Writer and theatre director Amaan Ahmad's idea of doing digital theatre live received a big thumbs-up on Facebook. It was actually his wife who had suggested he develop a play for a digital …
A look at ongoing productions on Tehran's stages shows a growing interest in box office hit musicals like Les Misérables and Mary Poppins, and the remarkable presence of celebrities in thes…
The contemporary dancer Shady Emad takes advantage of Alexandria's empty cornish where he continues to practice social-distancing but in public spaces. Shady Emad, an Alexandrian contemporar…
Actors attempt to host Indian first-ever virtual interactive play Lockdown Love. Multi-hyphenated entertainer Roshan Abbas who, apart from being a radio jockey, theatre actor, writer, and di…
There was a moment on April 7th when the vision for culture in Spain under Covid-19 looked pretty bleak. While a series of streaming options were offering salvation to a nation under lockdow…
Theatre has survived thanks to its mobility and potential to exchange creative ideas. Since its inception, it has been open to the circulation of different practices, approaches, and conscio…
In its simplest form, the proscenium is constructed of little more than cardboard. Small paper figures and objects come to life via slots, rods, or other humble mechanics. But these modest m…
Wojtek Markowski is the producer of the Polish experimental lab Dream Adoption Society. Together with the director of the company, Krzysztof Garbaczewski, and other team members they create …
Herrin Made was a play written and performed in the United States' deeply rural area of Southern Illinois, a region composed of small towns such as Carbondale, Carterville, and Herrin. It wa…
Because of COVID-19, Italian singers can only continue to work online by using live streaming. The absence of direct contact with the audience has the ability to transform silence into an in…
In times of crisis, we see just how closely reality and fiction really are. What seemed like a world dominated by a single scenario of endless growth and movement, turns out to be capable of…
Virginia Woolf's reputation has closely followed British cultural trends: in the interwar years she was a beacon of modernism, austere and difficult; by the 1970s a feminist icon; in the 199…
Responses to the spread of the COVID-19 virus have varied widely from country to country and are changing from one day to the next. So, while Broadway shows in New York have shut down for at…
The name 'Rashida Namulondo' will easily roll off any random tongue in the performing arts community in Uganda. She is an actress, a poet, and the director of The Sophie Muwanika Institute, …
Georg Hobmeier is an artist and narrative game designer who is working in several fields: game design, theatre, but he is also organizing other game-related events as well. Hobmeier was one …
Originally a street play, Sheher-e-Naqab was put together by Pune-based group Swatantra Theatre. The scene opens with a man wearing a mask reading news related to Coronavirus in a newspaper�…
From play-readings and performances on Facebook live to apps that access playscripts, the online space is giving theatre lovers in the city the much-needed antidote to these grim days. Who w…
One unexpected casualty of these beleaguered times is a relatively young arts organization that had only recently celebrated its eighth anniversary on February 29 (and because that's leap ye…
There's a colloquialism within the theatre community that 'you know lighting design is good when you don't notice it.' While the validity of that statement remains debatable, the future of t…