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 in the world, in his small, stifling room, confined and miserable. He t…
'Tis the season for holiday-inspired and joy-infused entertainment and Ruskin Group Theatre Co. in Santa Monica, CA has done us all a tremendous favor by delivering the world premiere of Bad…
Lived experiences provide a foundation for the creation of theatre which is deeply personal, and far-reaching, allowing all types of audiences some ability to connect with what is onstage. I…
The legendary Habba Khatoun comes to life in Purva Naresh's Zoon, a play that attempts to give ordinary Kashmiris a voice, says Vikram Phukan. Circa 1989, as the errant flames of an inchoate…
Naturalism is both the best thing about British theatre, being democratic and comprehensible by all, and the worst, being boringly unimaginative and frankly banal. The hegemony of this aesth…
Just as the first signs of autumn begin to take over the glorious summer (shorter sunsets, occasional winds, gradually falling temperature), August in Helsinki offers a treasure of cultural …
Romina Paula is perhaps best known outside Argentina for her work as an actress in seminal films such as Santiago Mitre's El Estudiante (English title: The Student, 2011), Mariano Llinás'…
Some news stories have a very long half-life. Their power to shock does not diminish; they continue to radiate pain. One such is the gang rape and murder that happened in South Delhi in D…
Scenic designer Sean Fanning recently designed a beautiful and provocative set for Jack Thorne's 2015 play The Solid Life of Sugar Water, produced by Deaf West Theatre. This was Sean's first…
Adapting novels for the stage is a tricky business. When the novel in question happens to be wildly popular and epically proportioned, the challenges faced by the adapter can escalate withou…
Actor Miriam Margolyes is a phenomenon. Not only has this Dickensian specialist starred in high-profile shows both here and in Australia, a country whose citizenship she took up in 2013, but…
Sawitri Theatre, based out of Mississauga, Ontario, recently paid a tribute to the acclaimed Indian playwright Chinu Modi. Being one of the flag-bearers of South Asian theatre in Canada, the…
For most people in Hong Kong, the name Lyudmila Pavlichenko certainly does not ring a bell. She is not a fictional character but a historical figure who was one of the very first female snip…
For many in the English-speaking world, the company Piel de Lava is known primarily for its work in Mariano Llinás's 13+ hour epic, La flor (English title The Flower, 2016-18), a glorious…
Walid Abu Rashed walks past bombed-out buildings in war-torn northwest Syria, carrying a large wooden board and a plastic bag filled with puppets while dozens of children trailing behind him…
Founded in 2001, the Dramaturgs' Network is the only organization in the United Kingdom solely dedicated to supporting dramaturgs and promoting the practice and theory of dramaturgy. Among t…
It opens with a manic attempt to clean. The sheets, the floors, the smell of the air, everything must be scrubbed clean. Endless loads of laundry. Saline. Bleach. Days, months, years later �…
Admissions is the third work of Joshua Harmon to appear at SpeakEasy in Boston's South End. The earlier ones Bad Jews and Significant Other were very successful. Having just seen Admissio…
Kathakali buffs were able to familiarise themselves with rarely-presented characters and anecdotes of Nalacharitham and Duryodhanavadham during a five-day fête in Thrissur. A five-day fes…
Truth is the first casualty of war, and often it is journalists who have to pay the price. Killing the messenger seems to be an accepted way of falsifying the facts"and this applies to any s…
What's the use of thinking about the future? What's the use of thinking about the future in a theatre? Created by the Copenhagen-based theatre company Fix&Foxy, Tue Biering's one-woman p…
For the last three years, dance maker and artist Freddie Opoku-Addaie has been a guest programmer at Dance Umbrella festival in London, responsible for the festival's "Out of the System" str…
In darkness, a quiet sobbing, acutely intimate in the vastness of the Barbican main stage. Now crying, now whimpering, the amplified voice grows in aching graduality. I can't but reflect on …
This year is a special one for the Theatre Olympics. For in it's touring, it is comprised of two mutually enriching parts: for the first time, it is held in two countries " in Russia and in …
TAHIÂ Fess's: New Zealand Festival of Solo Performance, Artistic Director: Sally Richards. Produced by Sally Richards and Beth Taylor, BATS Theatre, Wellington, 20-24 August 2019 Actor Nic…