2,044 stories from The Theatre Times
It seems that the classic Broadway musical West Side Story may be getting not one but two film remakes this year. Or rather, one film remake by Steven Spielberg later in the year and one …
Total surveillance: this is the idea that every moment of our waking existence can be spied upon by the state, or by some foreign country. It's a paranoid notion based on the huge growth of …
Your sweet tooth can get you into trouble. Lots of trouble. In this revival of Lucy Prebble's provocative debut, first staged at the Royal Court in 2003, the metaphor of sugar, and of the po…
Mika Johnson is an artist with a background in theatre, but also a film director. Besides this, he makes music and works as a photographer. He is the director of VRwandlung, a producti…
Review: Bran Nue Dae, by Jimmy Chi and Kuckles and directed by Andrew Ross for Sydney Festival. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names of decea…
When the stage floods with pink smoke at the end of the show, you question if you're supposed to get lost in it. The division between actor/ spectator becomes less defined. Should we…
There's no way Artistic Director Marya Sea Kaminski could possibly have predicted that the impeachment trial would coincide with the Pittsburgh Public Theater run of Little Shop of Horrors. …
Haruki Murakami is probably Japan's best-known living writer " a worldwide bestseller with novels translated into at least 50 languages. Yet, despite that, dramatizations of the 71-year-old …
Matthew Ribnick is not your average actor and his performance in the highly acclaimed Hoot is testament to his supreme acting talent which has been honed over a number of years. As is the no…
A series of questions filled my mind. What was the motivation behind the choice of sets and costumes? In my opinion, the only thing that really worked well set wise was the ever-pres…
Any interview with Mbuso Khoza is both a wide-ranging history lesson and a remarkable exploration of a myriad of pertinent societal issues which occupy his mind daily " from sharing his thou…
Could diabolical interference be the only way for a woman in 17th-century London to advance in life without being bound to a man? For Joanna Faustus, the answer is in the affirmative. So she…
Tonight, I discovered the gasp index. Or maybe just re-discovered. The what? The gasp index. It's when you see a show that keeps making you exhale, sometimes audibly, sometimes quietly. Like…
"Static" is one of those words from which most artists recoil. It's typically used for something felt to be listless, inert, and boring. In fact, physical stasis is an artistic tool, or at l…
HEN. Johanny Bert " Théâtre de Romette. January 22, 2020. Le Mouffetard " Théâtre des Arts de la Marionnette, Paris, France "If you allow me the time to exist, everything will be …
The National Arts Centre's website calls Jivesh Parasram's Take d Milk, Nah? a "highly-hyphenated story about the search for identity." This is certainly the case: Parasram's burst ont…
Do you hear the people sing? In recent months, you're more likely to have heard news stories about the longest running West End musical than the actual music. Stephen Sondheim " who celebrat…
Sylvia Huszár is a Hungarian independent theater producer with an international background, a theater theoretician and a translator. She has been working with contemporary theaters for mo…
From the pre-show announcement, we know we won't catch all that is said onstage during Unikkaaqtuat; in being honest, we won't have to. In freeing ourselves from the tethers of language-a…
A theatrical performance by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants grapples with the subject; the show is set to travel to many parts of the country Two junior associates at a la…
Review: Lady Tabouli, directed by Dino Dimitriadis, National Theatre of Parramatta for Sydney Festival. In Australia in 2020, it's hard to think homosexuality is still viewed as a sin and a …
Theatre is a business as well as a craft. And surveys about theatre often have a business side to them. So a recent survey about how many Shakespeare quotations members of the general public…
The wilting characters of Uncle Vanya would like us to believe that their scenes from country life should not amount to much, except, perhaps, for an endless succession of tedious trifles. T…
Queen Victoria is a strong symbol of the old British Empire. For some 200 years, up to the 1950s, the country's colonial history dominated the national mindset, and arguably we still live in…
This excerpt is taken from the concluding chapter of Performance, Medicine and the Human, a book on contemporary medical performance. The author examines one example of medical performance "…
