Shakespeare's King Lear has defied composers who refused invitations to render this bleakest of tragedies into opera: Berlioz, Britten, Verdi were all at some point approached about an opera…
There is a lot to admire in Denise Despeyroux's newest play produced by the Centro Dramático Nacional at Madrid's Valle-Inclán theatre. Misericordia (Mercy) is about how we look back a…
Santiago a Mil is an annual theatre and performing arts festival held in the Chilean capital in summer. Since 1994 it has been welcoming audiences to its programme of activities across the c…
In a year in which 77-year-old Dolly Parton recorded her first rock record, the octogenarian Rolling Stones released their first original album in years and 81-year old Harrison Ford starred…
For lovers of the fantastical and the geeky, the scene at Under St. Mark's is one of nostalgia and familiarity. The pre-show music is reminiscent of Undertale; the font demarcating several k…
"This play is a lie," boldly declares the poster of Sam Holcroft's new play A Mirror, now playing at London's Trafalgar Theatre after its initial run at the Almeida Theatre last summer. It's…
On Monday How to Dance in Ohio, one of the most hyped shows of the 2023 Broadway fall season, announced it would close on February 11th, just one show short of 100 performances. Based on Ale…
Jane Austen is not just a classic novelist " she's a cultural institution and a national treasure. Since the 1990s there has been an avalanche not only of straight adaptations of her novels …
Written by Magda Romanska and Kasia Lech All theatre is local. All theatre is global. Both statements are true: theatre has always been and continues to be a vehicle for national identity…
Being on the edge is the place where I like to be no matter in what domain it is…and the edge is a place which overlaps with other edges…so you're likely to meet other people round the e…
Christian Tschirner aka Soeren Voima (he/him " author, theater maker, Schauspielhaus Hamburg) Born in 1969 in Lutherstadt Wittenberg, grew up in Karl-Marx-Stadt, now Chemnitz. After an appre…
Catching up with Guillermo Calderón's Villa at Santiago a Mil after almost 12 years has been a treat. This is not because it presents easy or pleasurable subject matter but rather because…
Introduction by Michael Schweikardt Student designers at San Francisco State University's School of Theatre & Dance spent several months preparing for their upcoming production of Sarah …
Sanchis Sinisterra is a Spanish playwright with a long career and many successes who is in the theater news because a new production of El lector por horas/Reader by the hours. This play tou…
El Brote (The Break) is the tale of an actor who doesn't feel he's had the career breaks his talent deserves. The opinionated Beto has taken on a range of secondary roles with a state-subsid…
On January 13th, hundreds of artists and cultural workers marched through New York City's theater district in solidarity with The Freedom Theatre of Jenin, Palestine which was raided one mon…
Piel de Lava have been making work for 20 years and it shows. Elisa Carricajo, Valeria Correa, Pilar Gamboa and Laura Paredes may be best known in the English-speaking world for their film w…
Think of a film set where the audience gathered on the streets are not fully aware that they are watching a film being made: they know there is action and fireworks are coming but not a lot …
I read David Foster Wallace's short story The Depressed Person soon after it was published in Harper's Magazine in 1998. Capturing the insular circularity of chronic depression, it stayed wi…
Primavera con una esquina rota (Springtime in a broken mirror) has acquired a legendary status. First produced by Teatro Ictus in 1984, this adaptation of Mario Benedetti's eponymous 1982 no…
How does one "write" a life for the stage? This question lies at the heart of Ana Luz Ormazábal's brilliantly inventive staging of MarÃa Isabel, presented as part of Santiago a Mil, Ch…
This February, International City Theatre will present the world premiere of a new play, Marilyn, Mom & Me written and directed by Luke Yankee. This autobiographical play is about the pl…
Shifting the Spotlight: Exploring the Scarcity of Female Voices in Iraqi Theatre Upon the release of Contemporary Plays from Iraq in 2017, my focus shifted to translating works exclusively w…
I am going to be honest. I didn't see Verdi's Rigoletto at the Real. I had wanted and planned to go but, in the end, circumstances conspired against me. The opportunity to watch the recordin…
Presented by NYC's Piper Theatre, Aftermath is a new pop musical-in-development written by Daniel McKamey, with lyrics by Pance Pony and book by James Clements. The story follows the afterma…