2,101 stories from The Theatre Times
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…
Egyptian play Collar and Bracelet, directed by Nasser Abdel-Moneim, won the best performance at Tunisia's Carthage Theatre Days (Journées théâtrales de Carthage), the 21st edition of wh…
This excerpt of the article is originally written in Chinese by the author. Full article will be published in the programme of the performance. English Translation: Konstance Li Postcolonial…
Rhinoceros (1959) is one of Eugène Ionesco's best-known plays, one of the plays with which the great Romanian-French playwright made an iconic name for himself in the history of theatre,…
Single Performance: Queen-Size, by Sandbox Collective, a dance-performance at Spaces, Chennai, December 2016. In the wake of the Supreme Court's understanding of homosexuality under Secti…
If anyone is responsible for Hong Kong's contemporary dance scene, it's Willy Tsao. Forty years ago, he persuaded his family to give him HK$500,000 and the use of some unneeded factory space…
A thread of life and blood, unconditional love and death, incest and destiny all interconnect in The Rise and Fall of Macondo, a performance inspired by Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez' masterp…
In the main Sala of the Vorpommen Theater in Greifswald, northern Germany, a row of bare-footed actors in simple clothing introduce themselves, one by one, to the audience. Their reserved po…
Uma Lava by Victor Rodger, Circa Theatre, Wellington. 23 November " 7 December 2019. Directed by Vela Manusaute. Produced by F.C.C. Playwright Victor Rodger writes from a Polynesian persp…
A group of young volunteers in northern Iraq produced the slick Bella Ciao music video because they couldn't join anti-government protests themselves. There have been a variety of artistic c…
Alaa Abdel Aziz, president of the Alexandria Arab Theatre Festival for Specialised Institutes and Colleges, shared his views on the inaugural edition, mission and plans ahead. When I met Ala…
When William Shakespeare died in 1616, he left behind dozens of plays and hundreds of poems, but little other than a last will and testament to shed light on his personal life. That document…
She is daring, adroit and has amazing stage presence. Whenever she is part of the cast, she gets theatre enthusiasts lining up to the ticket booth in anticipation. Her name is Dalma Chiwerev…
Created and directed by Christiane Jatahy, E se elas fossem para Moscou? is comprised of two versions, always displayed simultaneously: the theatre one, in which the audience watches the sta…
Orpheus and Eurydice, directed by Yaron Lifschitz, Queensland Performing Arts Centre. The story of Orpheus' descent into the underworld to retrieve his beloved Eurydice has fascinated people…
Animal characters are protagonists in Crea-Shakthi's latest take on The Ramayana. Nala and Nila, the former credited as the engineer of the Rama Sethu (bridge), and the latter, the vanara…
To perform an exit is not as simple as it sounds. In fact, exiting a situation can be almost impossible for some. Exit Strategies is a new production by indie performer and theatre-maker Mis…
Architectural mapping, façade projection, 3D projection videomapping, display surfaces, and architectural Vj set are some of the definitions used for a new artistic format and a …
What is it about stories from the ancient world that attracts contemporary dramatists? One person well-placed to address that question is 37-year-old Japanese theater director Kunio Sugihara…
