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Once again, the forsythias are in bloom, and that means new openings are arriving way too fast for me to write full reviews on everything I see. Here, then, are some shorter takes, euphoric,…
We were wrapping rehearsal for the reading of my play Seeing Maya, a Tel Aviv love story, at the Atlas Intersections Festival in DC, when our lead actor, Lisa Hodsoll, asked a question about…
In nearly all productions of Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera I had seen up to this one, I was struck by a clash between the expectations that casting and other directorial choices had develo…
Cheng-Chun Lee was an underperforming student in his high school composition classes. It was strenuous for him to express his ideas on pages while following the structure of introducing a to…
For the second time in two years, a flashy, big-budget Romeo and Juliet has opened in New York that’s so bent on pleasing one particular target audience with shallowly conceived staging gi…
I’m trying to sell my theatre show to my neighbour, a retired farmer. He’s out walking his small dog. ‘What’s it about?’ he says, with a nervous grin. ‘Climate change’, I reply…
Sinfonia is a play in which older people of the local community take to the stage to share fragments of their lives. We may not often stop to imagine what growing old will feel like. Will we…
For the last full production of his first season as artistic director of Packhaustheater in Bremen, Dirk Böhling had written and directed a revue-style, 90-minute, fast-paced accumulation o…
STONE DESIGN Architects – Authors of the project No Man’s Land (2015/2016). Connected by a shared commitment to modern, urban, and sophisticated architecture, in 1999 four fellow student…
Seats have long been sold out for this production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, which brings iconic actor Kenneth Branagh back to the RSC (Royal Shakespeare Company) after a thirty-year hi…
This year’s theatre Biennale (7 to 21 June), with Willem Dafoe at the helm, has the intriguing title, Alter Native. In fact, in the program, the director and his advisory team have include…
This year’s theatre Biennale (7 to 21 June), with Willem Dafoe at the helm, has the intriguing title, Alter Native. In fact, in the program, the director and his advisory team have include…
Anissa Naji is a Moroccan-German multilingual actor, comedian, singer, writer, and teaching artist based in New York City. She is fluent in English, Spanish, Arabic (Maghreb & Levant), F…
An interview with Mrs. Gabriela Abrasowicz (Slavist, translator, and theatre scholar, Poland). Gabriela Abrasowicz is a Polish Slavist, translator, and theatre scholar. She graduated from th…
Klaus Mann’s novel Mephisto, published in 1936, deals with the opportunistic rise of its main character, Hendrik Höfgen to become one of the leading actors, directors and theatre managers…
This year’s theatre Biennale (7 to 21 June), with Willem Dafoe at the helm, has the intriguing title, Alter Native. In fact, in the program, the director and his advisory team have include…
4/5 Stars Coming from a glimpse of a barren thought of the sense of being presented with the concrete knowledge and perspectives of what sex education is for a kid growing up into becoming a…
The Finborough Theatre is one of the smallest in London, yet it has a great track record in selecting new plays. With room for barely 50 spectators, its budget is tiny, but its vibe is treme…
The stage, designed by Thomas Rupert, was vast and predominantly empty, the floor mainly even and sloping up at the very back. The walls were painted in shades of grey, as were the matching …
Juan Mayorga began writing El jardín quemado (The Scorched Garden) in 1996, completing it the following year. Close to thirty years on, Mayorga directs it at Madrid’s Teatro de la Abadía…
When Florian Battermann founded the Komödie am Altstadtmarkt in Braunschweig in 2003 at the age of 30, it was then the most recent addition to the boulevard comedy theatre scene in Germany.…
On a cold Saturday afternoon this past winter, retired director Laura Jones drove me around the small town of Fort Collins, Colorado. Jones, who was the subject of a piece I wrote for TheThe…
An Interview with Mr. Ivica Matičević, president of the Fellowship Miroslav Krleza Fund, literary historian, literary critic, comparatist, editor (Zagreb, Croatia) Ivica Matičević (bo…
In his biography of Federico García Lorca, Ian Gibson observes that the writer’s assassination took place on the moonless night of the 18th August — a fact that acquires particular sign…
Spirit and the Dust is a play by American dramatist Noah Haidle. The world premiere of the play, in its translation into German by Barbara Christ, took place on 27th February 2026 at Deutsch…
