Two productions, both under musical direction of Valery Gergiev, were put on at Mariinsky Theatre on consecutive days in February 2020: Claude Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande and Rodion Shc…
Ghalia's Miles brilliantly brings the crude harsh reality of the Middle East to life. It pierces deep down into the soul, with razor-sharp effectiveness, twisting once buried within to ensur…
Darkie which features Katlego Letsholonyane (who has just recently started appearing on the local SABC sitcom Skeem Saam) is a brave and stylistically refreshing production in that not only …
When Milo Rau arrives in a city, he attracts the attention of theater journalists, professionals, and theatergoers who follow the latest trends. This is definitely the case with his recent v…
Since 2000, Esther Baker's Synergy Theatre Project has worked with prisoners, ex-offenders and young people at risk of offending to produce powerful dramas about some of the most fraught soc…
Designers have revealed renderings of their project that is to grace the Urals. American studio wHY Architecture is to build a new opera theater in Perm, a Russian city in the Ural mountains…
This conversation with Christa Sommerer focuses on some aspects of the gigantic artwork that Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau have been building together since 1992. After a brief synthesis o…
The Greek philosopher Plato, summarized what is to be in love as "a serious mental illness." Both a "rapture" yet also "pure madness." Love is the Pandora's box of human existence and both h…
Sabaya Makhadet El-Kohl (The Young Girls of the Kohl Pillow), a play that explores the lives and constraints of women in southern Egypt, is playing in Cairo until Monday. At the small El-Tal…
The winter holiday season generally brings a Charles Dickens' play to theatres. At the New Repertory A Christmas Carol, the usual piece has been replaced with Lionel Bart's musical …
Adapted by Turkey's State Opera and Ballet from the story of the ancient city, Göbeklitepe opera will mesmerize audiences with unique elements from decor to costumes. "Göbeklitepe the Oper…
Lucy Kirkwood's drama, now appearing at Boston's SpeakEasy Stage, deals with climate change. Its three characters, now elderly, were formerly nuclear scientists.…
As entertainment venues remain shut due to the COVID-19 epidemic, China's live performance industry has moved online in hopes of garnering wider audiences virtually. On Saturday, four popula…
The below essay is the programme document of a research project Porozumienie (Agreement) at the Powszechny Theatre in Warsaw. The shape of public cultural institutions has long attracted spi…
A diptych on the re-appearance of other-than-Human movements, with Amanda Piña and Rolando Vázquez. Choreographer and performer Amanda Piña is steadily building an embodied praxis t…
"Would you rather have one shoe or no shoes?" Viv is here to show us that missing only one shoe is not necessarily the better option. Having lost one of her shoes on the way to work, she kno…
Recently staged to SOLD-OUT audiences at the Joburg Theatre, the Isandlwana Lecture: Narration through Song by acclaimed musician, sociologist, historian and griot Mbuso Khoza featuring The …
We can't discuss unpleasant historical events or why you or I voted for that candidate without generating anger and accusations. A society which is afraid to think and respectfully consider …
Guillem Clua has produced a varied body of work for the Catalan theatre. His plays sometimes have a feelgood quality, as with Smiley (2012), a queer love story for the twenty-first century. …
The idea of the perfect murder is a genre standard. The fantasy that you are so intellectually gifted that you could use a supremely clever scheme to bump off an enemy, or make a fortune, is…
In Orteza's and director Sigion-Reyna's Katsuri, representations of sacada (sugar farmers in the island of Negros) veer away from the typical, almost iconic, images of the sacadas as rendere…
There are likely as many ways to relate to Molly Smith Metzler's play Cry It Out as there are ways to react as a parent " and particularly as a mother " to the birth of one's first child. Th…
Natasha Sutton-Williams interviews Sophie Woolley about her play Augmented " a personal story about the joy, and conflict, of becoming 'hearing' again after 22 years of progressive deafness.…
Welcome to the Age of the Latina Nerd! Anywhere you look"on stage, on screen, on the written page, in the Senate (hello, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez!)"Latina nerds are taking up space and offer…
From Stravinsky's dissonant strings heralding the arrival of four black and white clad men in the Pas de Quatre of George Balanchine's Agon, to the final shimmering teal twist of dancers in …