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…
The interdisciplinary theatre, dance, and performance art festival Kyoto Experiment (KEX) wowed me with the thoughtfulness of its curatorial vision. The three co-artistic directors"Yoko Kawa…
Milad Azarm in conversation with Mohammadreza Khaki Peter J. Chelkowski, an esteemed scholar and professor emeritus at New York University, devoted his life to enriching the understanding of…
Six Against Turkey, at The Kosovo Albania Showcase, is a new satire from playwright Jeton Neziraj and director and wife collaborator Blerta Neziraj. It explores the main actors in Turkey'…
How do you explain the concept of childbirth to an alien intelligence, such as that of fungi? Are our family " and others " actually part of a colony that extends beyond us? Communicating wi…
Based on a well-loved Turkish novel by Latife Tekin, Dear Shameless Death " Dirmit by Tiyatro Hemhâl is a one-woman play adapted to the stage by Nezaket Erden and Hakan Emre Ãœnal. It i…
Though many people rushed to them post election, the musical of our political moment is not "Suffs", nor is it "Ragtime". It is, for better or worse, New York Theatre Workshop's "We Live in …
Staged readings are a liminal period for new plays in development. For rough ideas, they can be a lab where writings go through trial and error; for mature works, they can be a springboard t…
In Flower Sajza, directed by Endri Çela at the National Experimental Theater of Tirana, two women stand on the stage facing the main body of the audience. They are behind a fence of barb…
Heartefact Fund is a young company based in Serbia. Normally, the company performs in an apartment in Belgrade, ensuring audiences feel an intimacy and closeness to the productions and actor…
The Director, a positive character The Critic  is a sitter on fences and neither a positive nor negative character The Writer, a positive character The Critic's Inner Voice, a nega…
 Dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the first original production of the musical Starlight Express The 40th anniversary of the West End production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Starl…
Àlex Rigola first staged David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross at Barcelona's Teatre Lliure twenty-one years ago. It was an epic, fast-moving staging realised in a gyrating fishbowl set, cha…
Peruvian director Chela De Ferrari of Lima's Teatro La Plaza, reconfigured Hamlet " seen at this year's Edinburgh International Festival "Â through the eyes of actors with Down's Syndrome.…