Have you ever been nervous about going to the theatre? Maybe you're unfamiliar with theatre etiquette, maybe you have children, or maybe you find it hard to stay still for hours feeling trap…
The Moscow-located Bolshoi theatre quite literally translates to "Big" Theatre. And yes, it is quite big. But actually, the naming process was a bit more complicated than that. There are few…
Ntozake Shange, author of the famous Broadway play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuff, once said: "My goal is to be a primary, not a secondary source."…
 In her contemporary re-working of Sophocles' tragedy, Lulu Raczka has chosen to forego the classical elements of tragedy altogether. No Kreon, no sense of hubris, and no punishment by t…
What has Saint Augustine of Hippo got to do with new writing? At first sight, not very much. That is, until you read Alan Burdick's elegant program note to Alexandra Wood's latest play, The …
What are the first words you think of when you hear the name Mary Magdalene? Prostitute? Saved? Jesus? (#)Me too. In their extraordinary new chamber opera Magdalene, part of Prototype Festiv…
The annual ATHE (Associations for Theatre in Higher Education) conference took place in Orlando, FL, from August 7 to 11, 2019, with the theme, "Scene Changes: Performing, Teaching, and Work…
Originally, this article was conceived as a section of an extended piece called, "Dramaturgs Reflect on the ATHE Dramaturgy Focus Group (DRFG)," with recollections about the DRFG from both f…
Actor James McAvoy is much in demand: in the BBC's His Dark Materials he is busy saving a parallel world, while in the poetic universe of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac he i…
The split is clear upon first glance. He wears muddy jeans and rain boots, while she dons pristine khakis and purple Crocs. His space boasts shoots of wild rice, while hers stands testam…
Chicago combines passion, adultery, crime, murder, greed, corruption, violence, exploitation and betrayal, set in the city of Chicago in the jazz era and making it one of the most shocking p…
With a background in theatrical lighting, Chris Medvitz is a current Partner and Principal at Lightswitch, a lighting and visual design company whose focus is to offer artistic solutions to …
Under the direction of Kevin Loring in collaboration with artistic associate Lindsay Lachance, the new Indigenous theatre department at the NAC is the first-ever, created in Canada, to show …
Rachel Pickup is currently playing Lady Gay Spanker in London Assurance, written by Dion Boucicault and directed by Charlotte Moore. The show, which is playing at the Irish Repertory Thea…
Theatre can touch thousands of lives. But can it compete with the success of a bestselling book? First published in 1988, mountaineer Joe Simpson's Touching the Void has apparently sold more…
Review: The Dark Master and Totes Adorbs ♥ Hurricane, OzAsia Festival, Adelaide, 22 October " 8 November In theatre, the play text tends to drive the storytelling. The interpretation o…
In the past five months, Romanian-born award-winning playwright, poet, and scholar Saviana Stănescu has been in residence at the National Museum of Romanian Literature in Bucharest to wor…
The trouble with prejudice is that you can't control how other people see you. At the start of her career, playwright Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti's work was set in her own Sikh community. But, like…
Media hysteria needs good branding. So when in March 2014 an email letter was leaked to the press, claiming to be by Islamist extremists and detailing how to take control of several Birmingh…
Methodology The most-searched-for musicals in Kenya, online, are High School Musical, The Lion King and Hamilton, respectively. This is according to a recent report by TicketSource. The rese…
Mythic Stories of Fanling Township is the latest production to tap into Chinese theatergoers' craving for interactive and unique cultural experiences. Liaoning, Northeast China " A man in ra…
Since I will be recalling many other voices, I will start, somewhat pretentiously, with my own, in order to create a field for further narration. My adventure with Krystian Lupa's Factory 2 …
Moby-Dick at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, MA For those who are not familiar with the narrative construction of Herman Melville's classic text, Moby-Dick, the novel encycloped…
Family dramas are a staple of British new writing, but as well as talking about our nearest and dearest, can they also say something about the wider society? The Arrival, by the director, tu…
As the curtain falls on 2019's theater scene in Japan, a continuing rise in the popularity of musicals now sees them clearly positioned at the center of the country's entertainment mainstrea…