If this year's Sydney Festival is any indication, the monologue is back. So far, I have seen Adam Lazarus's Daughter, Joel Bray's Biladurang, Omar Musa's Since Ali Died, Tara Beagan's Deer W…
Visiting the city of Boston during its national tour, the Second City sketch revue She The People: Girlfriends' Guide to Sisters Doing it for Themselves has landed at the Huntington Theatre …
Okay, my global theatre friends, we admit it " we here in Los Angeles have been missing out. Sure, yes, we have a lot of wonderful things going for us. We have the film industry, whi…
Antoinette Nwandu's play Pass Over is a palimpsest. Its outer surface looks familiar: haunted by the ever-present threat of a murderous police force, two black men are paralyzed into inactio…
One of Boston's long-running interactive theatrical events, now featured routinely at the American Repertory Theater's OBERON theatre in Cambridge, Old School Game Show is a madcap throwback…
A one-man show by Hong Kong writer and performer Armie Ma will have its Australian debut in Adelaide Fringe Festival 2020. The show is called No Coming Back, a project conceived solely and p…
Genetic engineering is in the news again. This follows the resignation of Andrew Sabisky as special advisor to Boris Johnson after a twitter storm about his comments on race and intelligence…
She is in her eighties when we meet her and shares with the audience the story of her life which began in a tiny Russian village, took her to Warsaw's ghettos and a ship called The Exodus, a…
The Lion and The Lamb, the biblically-inspired musical which retells the story of Jesus, was conceived and written by multi-award-winning theatre royalty, John Kani and the late Barney Simon…
Now that's what I call a star turn. Hitting the brakes on an express train, Lesley Manville lands on the National Theatre's Olivier stage surrounded by thick smoke, supported by prosthetic l…
The VW Dome at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens is the evocative setting of web-inspired performance Star Odyssey: The Pilot. The show is the creation of Emily Allan and Leah Hennessey, …
Van Wyk, The Storyteller of Riverlea based on the life of late writer, political activist and poet Chris Van Wyk, which has just ended at the Market Theatre, is a deceptively brilliant…
History plays should perform a delicate balancing act: they have to tell us something worth knowing about the past, that foreign country where they do things differently, and also something …
Have you ever been to the theatre, looked around, and thought about how predominantly white the audience is? Does the same impression come to mind when visiting museums? If it does and the a…
For fans of the whodunit as gradually unfolding conundrum rather than mere build-up to a climactic masterstroke, an Indian reboot of a British play based on the 1962 Agatha Christie novel,Â…
The newest play from Australia's most prolific playwright sees David Williamson in vintage form. Scenography Sophie Fletcher, set designer for David Williamson's new state-of-the-nation play…
Last week, I went for the first time to Stoke Newington's Tower Theatre, whose company has since 2018 been putting on a repertory program, which is inclusive and ambitious, on the outer r…
"The Queer Café: Hear Our Voices from the Balkans, the project I've been working on as a dramaturg and translator, with the US playwright, director and activist Joan Lipkin, has been a prec…
No playwright has had greater influence on successive generations of theatre-makers than Samuel Beckett. Yet it is surprising how rarely his work is revived in the big London theatres, of wh…
The actor-director was at the 12th International Theatre Festival of Kerala (ITFoK) in Thrissur with his play, Told by the Wind. Despite a hectic schedule, Phillip managed to take time out t…
An interview with Petar Miloshevski " A London-based actor, performer, theatre artist. Petar Miloshevski was born in Bitola, Macedonia, educated in Sofia and London, and is professionally ba…
A woman walks into her home. Then does another. And another. Stef Smith's Nora: A Doll's House is not merely an adaptation of Ibsen's 1879 play. It is three adaptations superimposed on one a…
Rebecca Rouse is Assistant Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York), media artist and researcher. VR is the latest medium " many claim this. But what exactly can VR do,…
Towards the end of Leopoldstadt, a young writer named Leonard is handed a sheet of paper with his family tree on it. The chart spans four generations and bears the imprint of two dozen lives…
"Fetch me 'ammer." (Edward Bond, Saved) "Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it." (Bertolt Brecht) A couple of years ago, our family got a new puppy. It …