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On the Edinburgh Fringe the number of plays investigating climate change is growing each year, and in the 2024 programme, there's a Climate and Sustainability section. At the Pleasance Dome …
In Two Minds, produced by Dublin's celebrated multi-award winning Fishamble, is playing at Traverse Theatre, Scotland's home for new writing. Dramatist and performer Joanne Ryan has created …
Tampere is Finland's third largest city" parallels are often drawn with Manchester, in part because of its shared industrial history, and also because of the frequency of rain! It is perhaps…
In my humble view, Tiago Rodrigues is one of the most important theatre makers at work today. His is a theatre that asks profound questions about what we value and why, and what we are p…
Director of the Edinburgh International Festival (EIF), Nicola Benedetti, chose 'Rituals that unite us" as the theme for this year's festival, which got off to a stunning start in the shape …
Hamlet, along with A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest and Macbeth, are probably the Shakespeare plays that are most often revisited today by writers, with very different intentions and s…
The Rubix festival, held for the second time in Porto Montenegro, in Tivat, represents an innovative and provocative combination of all branches, expressions and forms of art. Like a Rubik's…
Especially at this age, if you're going in to try to be looking for fame, you know, it is a myth. I mean then you really are misdirected, and you're gonna be very, very frustrated. I'm n…
At long last, the immersive titan Sleep No More, will"well"sleep no more. The long-running New York immersive theater piece will close this fall, pending another extension. So what will fill…
This year's Theatre Biennale (15 to 30 June), entitled, Niger and Albus (Black and White), sees directors Gianni Forte and Stefano Ricci keen " as they note in their introduction " to "open …
It is May 4, 2024, in Montreal, and I walk on Rue Bélanger as the night is approaching on this lightly colored spring day. I am about to see Wine & Halva, a production partnership betwe…
"Don't take freedom for granted!" This saying is what Helder Guimarães heard from his parents at the dinner table as they recounted stories of their oppressive past in Portugal. Born afte…
The Theatre Times wins the 2024 ATHE-ASTR Award for Excellence in Digital Scholarship from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, and the American Society for Theatre Research. The…
Sejong Center for the Performing Arts (artistic director, Sun-Woong Koh) staged the play Littoral by Lebanese-Canadian playwright Wajdi Mouawad from June 14 to June 30. This was a Seoul Thea…
In 1979 the very first French iconic rock opera " Starmania, created by Michel Berger (composer) and Luc Plamondon (librettist), premiered at the Paris Congress Centre / Le Palais des Congr…
The European Theatre Convention (ETC) in collaboration with Renew Culture officially launched in July 2024 the ETC Theatre Green Book (ETC TGB). The sixty-nine-page, freely available documen…
Is Jordan Cheng for real? The 37-year-old actor, singer, and composer is everywhere these days. In 2023, he won two of the city's top drama awards and was nominated for two more while ad…
After Brexit, UK productions very rarely play in Italy, but Biennale theatre directors Gianni Forte and Stefano Ricci have made an exception. The final days of the Festival put center stage …
Amy Ng has a problem. The Hong Kong-raised, London-based playwright is holed up in a Causeway Bay coffee shop in early January, working on her script for a new production of August Strindber…
How do we train students for to work within landscapes that are rapidly changing and for theatre of future that does not exist yet and already is an accumulation of multiple-multi-things? In…
Alright, I'll level with you. Maligned as it is (and oh is it ever) Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1982 musical Cats is what first made me fall in love with theater. When I was five, I went to a prod…
Perhaps the 2024 production of La MaMa's Medea, under Zishan Ugurlu's direction and reimagining, is an ode to our times like Achille Mbembe's Brutalism (2024), in which he developed the conc…
To read PART I of this essay, go to this link.  The snake that Medea uses to make her potion, which is a real snake on stage, is worn by her as a necklace around her own neck " showi…
I first encountered Dmytro Ternoviy through my Worldwide Ukrainian Play Readings project. His play, On the Eve, set in the last hours before Russia launched its full-scale invasion on 24 Feb…
This is Part 2 of the interview with Dmytro Ternoviy. For Part 1, go here. Dmytro Ternoviy's answers are translated from Ukrainian into English. John Freedman: Kharkiv is one of the oldest a…
