Florian Zeller's The Father, first produced in 2012, remains a timely play for various reasons. It provides a direct and confrontational examination of the challenges of living with dementia…
Catalan director Àlex Rigola, the former artistic director of the Venice Biennale's theatre section, likes boxes. Many of his scenographic configurations have gravitated around a structu…
Much of my approach to theatre, to performance, especially, consists in locating and assessing a production's center of gravity; that is, what are the dominating forces at work in realizing …
Only a week after the invasion of Ukraine, three creatives found themselves nestled around a bartop. Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva, Diana Zhdanova, and Jeremy Goren, the artistic directors of fe…
An ambitious plan to fly from GdaÅ„sk, Poland to Goiânia, Brazil and co-organize as well as lead a four-day festival was realized by Tomasz WiÅ›niewski and Martin Blaszk in June 202…
Introduction São Paulo Theatre School was founded in 2009 with the aim to establish a democratic space and implement an innovative pedagogical system in agreement with the specific nature…
ENTRE, is a Portuguese verb in the imperative tense that invites us to enter. That says to us: Enter! Entre.Between.PomiÄ™dzy, a festival that took place in Midwest Brazil in 2022, extend…
Praça Roosevelt (Roosevelt Square) is a square located in downtown São Paulo. It was a historic place for culture and resistance against the military dictatorship (1964 " 1984) but aft…
Willy Hudson is a writer and performer from Exeter " his Willy Hudson Ltd theatre company advertises itself as making "fabulous queer theatrical extravaganzas to make you go ooh, argh and oh…
Naples. Last October and November, Naples was traversed by a cultural event that aimed to reassign theatre to its former role as a cultural vector within civil society. This ambitious task m…
In an age of so-called "cancel culture" it's important to remember that for much of British history, it was the state, not the masses, who censored the work of artists. Between 1737 and 1968…
The Italian American gangster " Al Capone (Alphonse Gabriel Capone), who reigned as a crime boss in 1920-1930s during the Prohibition Era in Chicago " even one hundred years later, his perso…
Before the war, in what now feels like another lifetime but in reality is just over a year ago, I was in Kyiv, premiering Dash's show Songs for Babyn Yar. One evening, our Ukrainian partners…
Located at the end of a long, narrow corridor, seating the audience near the stage and close to the actors, Trap Door Theatre fosters an intimate viewing experience. With a vintage and relax…
A double bill by Irish composer Emma O'Halloran and her uncle, librettist Mark O'Halloran, Trade/Mary Motorhead, presents two psychological portraits of "extraordinary ordinary people" in th…
Sonne, los jetzt!, Elfriede Jelinek's new theater piece, is imperative with an unknown addressee. Is it the Sun or humanity that needs to make a change? Obviously, this is a first of many rh…
Undine is a three-act animated opera composed by Stefanie Janssen and Michaël Brijs. The pandemic transformed the originally staged production into a digital format, which bought about ne…
A collaboration between metaLAB (at) Harvard and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, the Digital Access Research Project (DARP) developed out of metaLAB's FutureStage project,…
In Our Daughter's Eyes, composed by Pulitzer prize winning composer Du Yun and librettist Michael Joseph McQuilken, is a probing one-act monodrama, which interrogates what manhood and father…
When I thought about why I wanted to write this article, a simple, almost childlike thought came to mind: because I'm downright giddy that Toronto theatres have reopened. And what's most exc…
note to a friend, composed by Pulitzer prize-winning composer David Lang, is a chamber opera inspired by three texts by Japanese author Ryunosuke Akutagawa, the father of Japanese short stor…
Gelsey Bell's Morning//Mourning is a quirky, experimental opera that defies categorization. It is part narration, part singing, part electronic music, and part science fiction. Set in a post…
On Saturday 19 November 2022, I witnessed the performance Hands Up! by dancer and choreographer AgnietÄ— LisiÄkinaitÄ— whose performance was for the first time shown in a Dutch cont…
During a summer of uncertainty and anxiety for American theatres and artists alike, a cohort of emerging and established dramaturgs was offered a space to reflect, imagine, and share at the …
On a cold November, New York Friday night, when temperatures approached freezing, the shivering audience waiting to experience Albert Camus' The Fall at the Soho Playhouse checked in at the …