2,101 stories from The Theatre Times
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…
South America's trauma in the second half of the twentieth century can be summed up by one phrase: The Disappeared. Whether in Argentina or Chile or anywhere else, the victims of military di…
David Mamet's play Oleanna is about the power struggle between a university professor and one of his female students who accuses him of sexual harassment. It came out around the time of Anit…
Oleanna, David Mamet's then-startling play about sexual harassment and power dynamics, debuted in 1992. So much has happened since then " including, here in Ottawa, allegations of harassment…
Dramaturged and directed by native Kingston and award-winning playwright Judith Thompson, the collective creation Welcome to My Underworld consists of nine character pieces based on the perf…
Last winter, at the Studio Theatre at Ryerson University in downtown Toronto, Canadian actor Antoine Yared played Caliban in The Tempest. He stood, centre stage, looking out over the audienc…
The works of modern Irish playwright Samuel Beckett, largely absurdist and tragicomic in scope, are certainly not intended to be simple crowd pleasers. Rather, they display a depressingly mo…
Composer Paul Rudolph accompanies the cast through a score that is perfectly in sync with the story line. Delightfully, it is a musical score that reminds it's listener that this is how Musi…
This month, Moscow's Theatre of Nations graced the Barbican's stage with Shukshin's Stories, an exhilarating ensemble of eight tales by Vasily Shukshin (1929-74), directed by Alvis Herman…
City-based Rangasthalam Actors Studio turns the spotlight on International Women's Day theme for this year 'Balance for Better' with its play #Feminist. The International Women's Day initiat…
You think you have a handle on the messy business of appropriation? Then you haven't seen Kat Sandler's quick-witted Bang Bang, now at the Great Canadian Theatre Company in a solid homegrown…
Ballet Alice in Wonderland, and operas Carmen, Die Tote Stadt, and Das Rheingold. At the Finnish National Opera and Ballet (FNOB), situated in the heart of Helsinki on the beautiful T�…
"We are moving in the right direction, we cannot go back " There won't be more camps, more carnage. We are too aware. Now. And we will fight." " Erich Blum, Eight Nights Antaeus …
We live in a time, especially in America, of increasing political divide. Many politicians and voters see the political landscape as black and white, "us vs. them," and it seems like the poi…
Teatro Biondo Stabile in Palermo has a full-house. To the right, left and up in the surrounding galleries are a mixture of different generations: ones who were there thirty years ago and one…
James Sheldon's Reparations is a new play about racial grievance, guilt, and retribution in America that, oddly enough, is both very smart and completely sincere. What I mean by that is t…
The Black History Museum….According to the United States of America, Smoke & Mirrors Collaborative's new show at HERE Arts Center, combines, interrogates, reimagines, in short, chops &…
"What can we do to break down the myths and stereotypes of Thanksgiving in forty-five minutes with three people?…" " Logan (The Thanksgiving Play) Geffen Playhouse has kicked off the holid…
Love seems to have preoccupied the planning team of the 2019/2020 season: it rushes on stage in so many variations and thematic lines that it is difficult to choose which one to favor. On th…
