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 …
Ulrike Syha was born in 1976 in Wiesbaden, Germany. She studied Dramaturgy at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Leipzig, and worked for several years as an assistant to the director a…
Stabat Mater is the most recent work by Brazilian actress, playwright, and director Janaina Leite, in which she carries on a process that intertwines theatrical language and self-investig…
Suicide Forest, written by and starring Haruna Lee is a trippy meditation on the extremes of Japanese culture. A joint production of Bushwick Starr and the Asian American theatre company Ma-…
United Queendom shines with potential. The location itself offers the thrill of being after hours in a royal palace, the expectations of whispers and court intrigue. Queen Caroline and Henri…
Once radical theatre companies are increasingly celebrating anniversaries, as if to say, hey, look, we're still here. Now it's the turn of Frantic Assembly to mark its 25th anniversary with …
Twenty years ago, the school's founders included leading Moscow ballet masters and today, a number of alumni dance at the Bolshoi, and in European and American ballet companies. The Brazilia…
In the play, Colors of Trans 2.0, when the transgender performer Living Smile Vidya bares her surgically reconfigured body in a moment of aching vulnerability, it induces gasps from on…
At the inaugural show of Istanbul's newest art space KoloniX, the all-women collective Factory 20/20 came together to mount, "The Shape of Things," an exhibition by five artists of varying d…
For more than three decades, the artist has been applying the intricate and distinctive make-up of Kathakali artistes. Sitting cross-legged on the floor, Margi Raveendran Nair's hands are ro…
Touretteshero teams up with Battersea Arts Centre to make South London's premier theatre space the world's first Relaxed Venue. Jess Thom is known on stage and tv for her alter-ego and proje…
Reading dry Shakespeare texts and going to parties at friends' places seem like quintessential parts of the American high school experience. Typically these two disparate activities do not h…
Witch. Icon. Legend. Showman " Marina Abramović is all of that, and more. "I realized then that the public can kill you. If you give them total freedom, they will become frenzied enough …
Caryl Churchill, Britain's best living playwright, is enjoying a spate of high-profile revivals of her classic work. Last year, the National Theatre staged her Top Girls, and an upcoming pro…
With William Shakespeare's iconic use of English lost in translation, bold and reimagined versions of his works have long blossomed in Japan, as dramatists have mainly taken inspiration from…
Cunningham Directed by Alla Kovgan "A 3D cinematic experience about legendary American choreographer Merce Cunningham (…) creating a moving and visceral journey through Merce's world" i…
To find Unmaking Toulouse-Lautrec, you will first enter through the wrong door. The production is being staged at the SoHo bar Madame X, but upstairs; go in through the main entrance and you…
Your story. Our story. Their story. Just imagine: you're a political refugee, and, having experienced horrible things that happened to your family, you finally, after a lot of trouble, arriv…
We last saw them on stage in 2016. We thought they had gone down the way of most companies " consigned their talents to oblivion. But on February 1st, 2020, Dance Theatre Uganda returned to …