Peter Sellars isn't afraid of taking risks. It's part of his approach to making work, as his 2024 production of Beatrice di Tenda showed. For this new staging of Jean-Philippe Rameau's Casto…
To read PART I of this interview, go to this link. Â Collective Interview with V4 Improv Connect Team (Hon Chong (actor, director " Slovakia), Zdravko Stojmirov (actor-Macedonia), Paulina…
Collective Interview with V4 Improv Connect Team (Hon Chong (actor, director " Slovakia), Zdravko Stojmirov (actor-Macedonia), Paulina Prokopiuk (actress, director " Poland), Lukasz Wojtowic…
For 15 years now, Heidi Wiley has been Executive Director of the largest and most influential network of publicly funded theatres in Europe: The European Theatre Convention (ETC). Establishe…
Director Romeo Castellucci is coming to the end of a four-year collaboration with Milan's Triennale Theatre. As well as producing a number of shows (see my review of his retelling of Racine'…
Even the best streamed theatre can't compete with the live version. It's simple " with this art form you really have to be there. In person. Take the case of Tarantula, master storyteller Ph…
The Dan Daw Show's long list of potentially triggering content includes depictions of kink experiences, suffocation, humiliation, loud noises, flashing lights and there, at the end of the li…
Is resilience the most powerful character trait? When you think about the suffering of the Windrush Generation, migrants to the UK in the 1950s, it is their sheer staying power that is immed…
Lyricist/Librettist Kate Rankine has a list saved on her phone of "golden moments", or "little things during the day that people say or people do that show the beauty of human connection." T…
What started as a farewell to a beloved cat has become a farewell to a fading starlet, New York in the 80s, and America as we know it. And the aforementioned cat. Experimental noir cabaret M…
Finding artists, nurturing them, supporting them. Seeing their work to fruition, and creating a community of support. We really try to do this at the Apollo New Works, too. It's …
Theatre in Iraq has some deep roots in ancient Mesopotamia, but its formal development was delayed due to political, economic and social challenges. The early 20th century, characterized by …
Ocean Cage engulfs its audience for almost two hours in a multi-sensorial, immersive performative installation combining visual art, light design, dance, film, video art, sound design, and m…
In November 2024, the British songwriter, lyricist, and author, a man whose contribution to the development of world musical theatre cannot be overestimated, celebrated his 80th birthday. En…
David Trueba's films have often had a theatrical dimension. La silla de Fernando/ Fernando's Chair, co-directed with Luis Alegre (2006), revolved a conversation with the legendary actor-writ…
How to begin to approach a history of the Spanish Civil War for the stage? An ambitious prospect and one that Andrés Lima has set himself drawing on the team with whom he realised Shock 1. …
How does a coming-of-age story look like today, at a time of a global ecological catastrophe and increasingly dire social, economic, political crises looming in the future? Kyoto-based playw…
Gaetano Donizetti's Maria Stuarda, first produced at Milan's Teatro alla Scala in 1835, like the Schiller play it draws on, demands two outstanding performers. It rises or falls on the quali…
As part of Kyoto Experiment, I watched at the black box of Theatre E9 two performers interact with an installation rich in textures and materials against a background of projections. The pro…
"Have the gates of death been shown to you? Have you seen the gates of the deepest darkness?" (Job 38:17) The play No Power for the Electric Chair by the Jordan H. K. Dzinot Theatre from Vel…
The enthusiastic applause and standing ovations received by Room with a View from the large audience filling the spacious proscenium hall of the ROHM Theatre in Kyoto paid tribute to the art…
Indonesian performance artist Melati Suryodarmo and Italian choreographer Alessandro Sciarroni don't seem to have much in common beyond their shared success on the international artistic sce…
We Live in Cairo, written by The Lazours, is a historical musical set in Egypt during the Arab Spring. Directed by Taibi Magar, it ran at the New York Theatre Workshop from October 9 to Nove…
One of the main achievements of DRAG: The Musical, which premiered at the New World Stages in New York, is that it redefined the place of drag queens in the narrative. If in the famous Broad…
Mierda bonita, or beautiful shit in English, is the term used in La luz de un lago/The light of a lake, the new play by El Conde de Torrefiel whose Spanish premier was in Temporada Alta Fest…