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That AI is poised to take over countless jobs, wipe out entire job sectors, is all over the news these days. Concerns about how displaced workers will support themselves tend to be met with …
Ðn Exclusive Interview with James Paterson who was part of the original cast of the legendary musical The Phantom of the Opera, later on, the resident director at Her Majesty's Theatre on…
TRACES is a new devised documentary theater piece presented by the investigative theatre group What Will the Neighbors Say? and commissioned by CUNY Queens College in Queens, NY. Researched …
When the world is engulfed in flames of enmity, would another flame be superfluous? Not if it is the flame of the Olympic fire, the fire of art. It can be salutary, transformative and gracef…
It can be difficult to gain contemporary audience for Shakespearean performance. Though the Bard's works are mounted across the world in amplitude (and many attend), rarely does a community-…
A great love that must defy prejudice. A secret kept hidden for years and a surprising denouement. The formidable force of memories unveils the mysteries of the past. Stach comes from a weal…
The term of ritual has always been an object for endless discussions amongst theologians, cultural theorists, anthropologists, psychologists, philosophers, etc. Many myth theorists looked to…
'We have approved some funds to our (Kenya Cultural Centre/Kenya National Theatre) very progressive CEO Mr. Mike Opundo, who will make sure that each winner here " each of the 37 winners her…
On March 17, 2023, the Bedlam Theatre in New York will be debuting the musical showcase, Best Time to Be Alive, which has been an ongoing project for its artists since 2019. Ready to hit its…
Productions of Broadway musicals have body issues. Full stop. From casting norms for Broadway choruses to the use of fat suits in Hairspray and Jennifer Holliday's well-documented struggles …
Alexandra Bachzetsis's latest group performance, 2020: Obscene, estranges the word obscene from its sexual connotation and turns it into a stage play that challenges normative gender roles. …
Bjørg Vik's The Journey to Venice at the Finborough Theatre: Norwegian memory play is tender if slight
The full version of the article Bjørg Vik's "The Journey To Venice" At the Finbor…
Creating art that reflects our time, Kat Mustatea is a playwright and technologist whose conceptual triumphs are rooted in narrative-led, drama. Her creative endeavors pay regard to the bear…
Xavier Bobés is one of those remarkable artists able to conjure a world through a few objects that he animates with a magician's sense of the unexpected. His dramaturgy provides the spectat…
Olga Voronkova is a London-based, Belarusian video editor, scriptwriter, copywriter, and producer working with Belarus Free Theatre and Young Vic. Her work focuses on the intersection of act…
Is anyone still nostalgic about their teen years? The coming-of-age drama is a staple of contemporary British theatre, but surely there is something just a bit too predictable about stories …
Jesús Cimarro is the current President of the Spanish Academy of Performing Arts (Academia de las Artes Escénicas de España), as well as the co-founder and director of the theatrical …
Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, and The Theatre Times present "Woman, Life, Freedom: Theatre and Protest in Iran," a virtual roundtable in h…
It has been so challenging to write these reviews of three recent works presented as part of the Prototype Festival, works, as the founders have said in various ways, that "skirt the line be…
Juan Mayorga, one of Spain's most decorated dramatists " a member of Spain's Spanish Royal Academy since 2019 and recipient of the Princess of Asturias Literature Prize in 2022 " is not aver…
The work of Thalia Ranjbar may be challenging" pushing beyond norms and expectations, but at its core it is kind. Her gentle, but relentless commitment to community can be felt both in the c…
Entering the theatre at HERE Arts, there is already a sense of broken ground. My companion and I find ourselves facing a half-built theatrical set, upstage canvas sign proclaiming "THEATRE S…
The topic of the digital spectator and, implicitly, the one of the multi-stratified co-presence, with all of the implications that arise from such an encounter with a production or with a pe…
Dedicated to the 35th anniversary of the Broadway musical "The Phantom of the Opera." It is known that the construction of the Grand Opera or the Palais Garnier in Paris inspired Gaston Lero…
The female monologue is a well-established contemporary theatre form, but often the content is predictable and sometimes clichéd. No such doubts come to mind with Laura Horton's latest play…
