The 2023/2024 season has proved the year of Bernarda Albas. Lorca's 1936 drama was completed only a few months before his death, as Spain was edging closer to civic conflict. Its razor-sharp…
When Chenura Trust a Zimbabwean media company announced that they were working on a theatrical performance titled Haywire which was going to be centered around mental health issues, initial …
Susanne Kennedy doesn't do things by half. When she creates a world, it has its own logic, its own rules, its own ethos. It's not a world of participation but one where the audience are invi…
The Drifting Room, created and performed by Stephen Bain. The Performance Arcade 2024, Te-Whanganui-A-Tara Wellington waterfront, 22-25 February 2024. What if the theatre"that fixed architec…
It is 1930s Kyeongseong (what Seoul was called during the Japanese occupation), and the colonial Japanese government is enforcing a Japanese-only policy to bolster the forced assimilation of…
American actress of beauty and talent, Támara Torres is a legend of Orange is the New Black, the Netflix comedy-drama television series created by Jenji Kohan. Her portrayal of Emily "Wee…
There are some myths about the opera that are not true. Firstly, that young people do not like opera. Secondly, opera audiences hate contemporary operas. If you think that both statements ar…
For me, this is the most emotional show on the London stage. Why's that? Because it's about Nye Bevan, who as Minister of Health in the postwar socialist Labour government set up the Nationa…
The performance follows four women in different parts of Ukraine, at various distances from the frontline and allows them to tell their pre and post-February 2022 stories. Abrupt opening? It…
It's election year so the gaze of British theatre turns towards the National Health Service. But, no, this month's plays do not examine the parlous state of doctors and hospitals today, but …
We've all heard of the metaphorical madwoman in the attic, but what about the symbolic unexploded bomb under the roof, tucked away among the junk, accumulating dust and lying quietly undisco…
Writer, actor, and director Ascanio Celestini is one of Italy's most celebrated theatrical storytellers, a genre much loved by Italian audiences of all ages. For me, Dario Fo was the undispu…
The Jeune Théâtre Européen Jeunes Publics (Young European Theatre for Young Audiences) (JTEJP) project was a 2022-23 pilot experience of designing, creating, and performing prototypes o…
The growing levels of migration results in an increasing number of children across Europe growing up in multilingual families (Armon-Lotem and Jong de 1), in which they may or may not share …
Vincenzo Bellini's penultimate opera, Beatrice di Tenda, rests between two more frequently performed works, Norma (1831) and I puritani (1835) " the latter his eleventh and final opera…
It's a sign of the times that German director Thomas Ostermeier's West End debut is his production of An Enemy of the People, which has been rep at his Schaubühne theatre for over a decade.…
What is a citizen-dramaturg? Could I study it at a university? Is it merely a state of mind? Would I need a certificate to practice? Until I participated in the 2023 Kennedy Center American …
Tim Rice became interested in the biography of Eva Perón " the wife of the famous dictator Juan Perón " in the early 70s of the past century. Most of the musical's book, Tim wrote whil…
A solo performance in theatre may often trap us inside a single dramatic character, taking us deep into their interiority. Or it may zigzag feverishly between an astounding range of figures …
This post was written by Jenna Lourenco. The views expressed here belong to the author and do not necessarily reflect our views and opinions. The full version of the article Neurodivergent N…
Alberto Conejero's trajectory as a playwright has been rooted in telling the stories that have lain in the margins, side-lined or erased. He has a remarkable capacity to address that which o…
Nowadays it seems that it's the fringe and Off-West End venues that are keeping the spirit of international theatre alive in London. Whereas much mainstream big-name theatre feels increasing…
For the corps de ballet of an Opera House, the place par excellence for the preservation of the intangible cultural heritage of the dance repertoire, providing an opportunity for young and e…
In West End theatre, the cliché that nothing succeeds like success keeps the wheels of commerce turning merrily. But just because a show is selling lots of tickets, and has generated loads …
Every day is a cunty day for Bekah Walsh. The Baltimore-based theatre nerd turned prolific #TheatreTok content creator has been hitting the campaign trail hard since August 2023. But, for Wa…