2,101 stories from The Theatre Times
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…
Dear white folks (and institutions) seeking to be true allies, Resist the urge to pat yourselves on the back. This process is never-ending. If the following makes you defensive … Good. To …
Michelle Memran is the documentarian behind The Rest I Make Up (2018), a touchingly candid portrait of Cuban-American playwright and director Maria Irene Fornes. A revolutionary figure in th…
Angella Emurwon is a playwright, theatre director and filmmaker. The name 'Emurwon' means seer, and Angella is already doing that in Ugandan theatre. I interviewed her to learn about her wor…
Imagine you have just experienced one of the most extraordinary performances you have ever seen in your life. You, along with the rest of the audience, are on your feet applauding enthusiast…
In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic which, among other industries, has adversely affected the theatre sector in South Africa and globally, POPArt, a cutting edge South African based experi…
Lloyd Lutara (LL) is a multi-form storyteller writing and producing theatre, film, fiction and television. By taking a single story and adapting it for different media, he is breaking …
The National Theatre's triumphant march through its archive of NT Live recordings continues this week with a glorious blaze of a show. Starring Gillian Anderson, Ben Foster and Vanessa Kirby…
The COVID-19 pandemic has closed theaters around the world, including New York's Broadway and London's West End, Buenos Aires' Calle Corrientes, and Gran VÃa in Madrid. The theater sector…
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought significant shifts in routines all over the world. With more people finding themselves adapting to a lifestyle they're less used to, the latent emotional di…
"Who was human before the war, remained so", says one of the actors in the beginning of the play Sedam dana kasnije (Seven Days Later), which ran in January at Sarajevo's Narodno pozoriÅ¡t…
Jonathan Pitches is a Professor of Theater and Performance at the University of Leeds. He is the Deputy Director of the Stanislavsky Research Centre and the author of three monographs: Scien…
This article is part of the Dramaturgs' Network's Invisible Diaries series. Slung Low is a company that is reactive to the "now." In my previous posts, I have written about their re…
This article is part of the Dramaturgs' Network's Invisible Diaries series. I am part German and part British; I am part academic and part dramaturg; I am part theatre and part oper…
Rome, 9th February 2020. "Can I get some paper? Some cream-colored paper? And a pen?" It is an autumn evening of 1982 in Trieste; the company performing StanisÅ‚aw Przybyszewska's L'affar…
Because of COVID-19, Italian actors' work had abruptly stopped but digital resources offer them "new" possibilities of maintaining live contact with their audiences. Some important artists h…
Seven bodies, moving in silence, form a slowly transitioning human landscape. The change in their shapes is almost imperceptible, like seven individual rocks that the sea gradually transform…
During the lockdown, the best online theatre, more or less, are shows that are specially created for this digital format. Much better than dull records of dramas that might have worked well …
Health and government officials around the globe are slowly and ever-so-tentatively moving to relax lockdowns due to coronavirus. In Canada, where the possibility of health-care collapse see…
