"We will definitely find you … and we will hang you side by side." So said a column in Sovietska Belarus, the more-or-less official newspaper of the post-Communist dictatorship. The target…
"For the most part, it didn't aim straight at the president. … Rather, producers elevated formally adventurous, politically incendiary plays " like Heidi Schreck's What the Constitution Me…
Puppetry had never been part of the Yiddish theater tradition, but in 1920s America, they were all the rage. So in 1925-26, a pair of writers created a Purim shpiel (the Jewish equivalent of…
Shows were running in the French capital for a few months last year, before a big new wave of COVID infections led to a new lockdown and a crop of new productions were going to waste. But no…
The NEC's roots lay in a drama workshop for Harlem youth that founder Robert Hooks ran in a makeshift theater in his apartment until the landlord found out. The professional company was born…
On January 17, 1921, in a north London theatre, "an English magician called Percy Thomas Tibbles literally and laboriously sawed through a sealed wooden box that contained a woman. It was a …
"Has it really happened that way, though? To go back to my paragon, Pauline Kael, she was perceived as shaping the course of Hollywood, and I'm not sure she did when you look back at it. Cul…
"It's like what 'Michelangelo' said, right? He's working with the marble and taking away everything that's not the sculpture. And let's put Michelangelo in quotes, 'cause was he really the o…
"Arts workers in the NHS, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, actor Michael Balogun and theatre company 20 Stories High are among those recognised in this year's The Stage 100 list, which has been…
"The folks behind Encore Monthly, a brand new magazine about theatre that just published its first issue …, think the time is ripe to provide theatregoers, deprived as we are of theatre we…
Disney bought the rights to the specially shot and edited footage of the Broadway production and planned to release it in movie theaters " until the pandemic changed everything and the show …
"Jared Mezzocchi has been systematically exploring what Zoom and the editing program Isadora can offer theatre practitioners during the pandemic. He has been working in the field for over a …
"When the curtain went up at the Palace Theater on Jan. 4, 1981, the expectations " and the stakes " were high. Frankenstein, an adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel, had cost a reported $2 mi…
Over the course of this year and next, Brave Spirits Theater in Alexandria, Va. was going to be "first professional American theater company to mount full productions of Shakespeare's two hi…
"Vulture spoke with [11] comedians about how pivoting to virtual and outdoor shows in 2020 were (and weren't) helpful for preparing material, lessons they learned about performing during the…
"Almost exactly eight months after the closure of their [last remaining] New York venue and improv training center, the Upright Citizens Brigade has announced the end of their Sunset Theater…
William Church, director of theatre at Interlochen Center for the Arts, writes about the perhaps-unexpected opportunities and opportunities that online-only pedagogy offered in this year of …
The author of The Man Without Qualities worked in the theaters of Vienna as both critic and playwright. Author Genese Grill looks at how Musil's two completed plays fed his most famous novel…
"Perth's Fringe World, which opens on 15 January, attracted criticism and protests earlier this year over its longstanding sponsorship by fossil fuel giant Woodside. In a bid to head off dis…
"Madre Goose tells the story of an LGBTQ+ community of activists rallying against gentrification and materialism. All the wacky costumes, silly characters and daft jokes are as you'd expect …
Basically, because of all the plagues everyone had been through, says Royal Shakespeare Company artistic director Greg Doran. "There is a big change in tone in his later work. Academics have…
August Wilson's prize-winning play includes heavy use of the N-word by its Black characters, and when Faith Fox found out that her 14-year-old's class would be studying Fences, she protested…
Laura Cappelle: "On paper, a Roman Catholic Mass and a stage performance aren't all that different: Both events involve a cast of professionals addressing a seated, and now socially distance…
"At a time when an anonymous newcomer can turn out theater faster than an institutional battleship can, it's impossible not to feel grateful for even shaggy efforts to keep the art form aliv…
"He introduced a frank, original view of the nation onto the stage. … His characters collide with the expectations of white America, but they also collide with one another, in itself radic…