Alfredo Arias has been based in France for many decades now, but he is an increasingly frequent visitor to the Argentine stage"recent works seen in Buenos Aires include Tatuaje (English titl…
In recent years there has been a resurgence of progressive adaptations of Chekhov's realist classic, "Three Sisters." Yet none can match the forceful adaptation of Inua Ellam's sweltering re…
In The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy (2016), Magda Romanska argues that if the twentieth century can be called the century of the auteur-director, then the twenty-first century will b…
A performance for teenage schoolchildren of Diego Casado Rubio's Millones de Segundos (English title: Millions of Seconds) at Teatro El Extranjero offered an opportunity to catch one of Buen…
First of all, don't be put off by the pompous, academic title. Thomas Ostermeier's extraordinary History of Violence, adapted from a much-discussed 2016 novel by the 27-year-old French li…
"You into words?" Jamie Lloyd's magnificent treatment of Cyrano de Bergerac very much is. Refracted through Lloyd's modestly masterful staging, Martin Crimp's vigorous, insightful adaptation…
Rhinoceros, the official production commemorating the Market Theatre Lab's 30th-anniversary celebrations, and performed by the supremely talented Kwasha! Theatre Company is a piece worthy of…
Anubha Fatehpuria will act out a miscellany of women characters, spanning more than a century in Pieces. Once again, in recent weeks, the free-thinking Virginia Woolf provides grist for the …
At the center of the large wooden barn is a makeshift altar, wrapped in gauze and adorned in flowers, candles, and partially constructed mannequins. A voice fills the broad, earthy space, wa…
It is autumn in Madrid, Spain. A small group of theatergoers has arrived at  Zapadores, a new art space. It is on the outskirts, close to a railway, far from any inhabited places apart fr…
Sorak Gemilang Entertainment (SGE) brings a world-class exhibition by art collective teamLab to Indonesia this year, presenting Jakarta's biggest interactive, creative experience teamLab Fut…
Istanbouli Theater and the Tiro Association for Arts announced the program of the second version of the Lebanese International Theater Festival (Tiro International Art Festival) from the 7th…
From Reunion Island to India, this play explores freedom and history. A young boy from Nepal snatched away from his home in the Himalayas, now lives in a big slum in India. He is all alone i…
Within ten seconds, I am in love. Three men have taken off their shoes at the side of a white, open space, selected a music track from an iPad on a stand, smiled at each other, and stepped o…
Today, we call it soft power. During the Cold War it was more like success at any cost"and by any means necessary. In the 1970s, both the United States and the Soviet Union used sport, as we…
Fairview is a scorching minefield that looks like a green meadow. At long last, London audiences can enter the beguiling terrain of Jackie Sibblies Drury's 2018 play in a flawless Young Vic …
There is no shortage of plays about troupes of traveling actors eking out a living on the road. To this collection of works now comes veteran Argentine dramatist Mauricio Kartun's La vis cÃ…
If you love theatre, namely the experimental kind, I highly recommend a trip to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival at least once in your life. For a couple weeks in August, the Scottish city play…
'Tis the season for Christmas pantos across the UK, and there could not be a more ideal opener to this mad tradition than Lyric Hammersmith's joyously woke Cinderella. Written by Jude Christ…
In 2013 Ignacio Bartolone created a buzz with his first play, Piedra sentada, Pata corrida (English title: Sitting Stone, Running Foot). He has gone on to establish himself as a key figure i…
Within ten seconds, I am in love. Three men have taken off their shoes at the side of a white, open space, selected a music track from an iPad on a stand, smiled at each other, and stepped o…
Saul: It is always your turn. Every time you are on that court, it is always your turn. Wen Chang: It was such an American way of thinking. (The Great Leap) Pasadena Playhouse colla…
Denis O'Hare and Lisa Peterson created Homer's Coat, a theatre company that explores ancient literature for new plays. Both the well-known actor O'Hare and the director Peterson developed…
New Nexus Formed After several projects which look into ways to expand performing art's notion of 'spectatorship' beyond the predominance of the visual, Vera Tussing's new project at the Kaa…
Mr. D'Alcala:Â If the time ever comes when your kind can walk a city street in daylight with nothing to fear from the people "Â Frank McCloud: The time has come Mr. D'Alcala, it's here.…