Earlier this year in the Polish theatre journal Didaskalia (169/170, 2022), a pair of Ukrainian and Polish critics Iryna Czużynowa and Marta Kacwin-Duman posed a powerful question: Have y…
"In Kosovo men are bulls**t, we are like criminals…" Kushtrim Koliqi has been a human rights activist, theatremaker, filmmaker and producer on the Kosovo theatre scene for more than a deca…
Joe White is great at staging fraught emotions. His Mayfly in 2018 vividly showed a family whose members were at the end of their tethers; it also had an intriguingly intelligent form. In hi…
The University of Göttingen would like to invite you to The 1st International Symposium on Contemporary Asian Theatre (ISCAT), December 8th-9th, 2022. This hybrid symposium will take pl…
Most of what we know about the beginnings of English professional theater as a financial enterprise and artistic endeavor comes from thousands of manuscript pages in the archive of Philip He…
Since February 2022, Western and Ukrainian media have reported on the kidnapping and forced adoption of Ukrainian children by Russians. The exact number of Ukrainian children transferr…
Last night, at the Arcola, I witnessed the return of The Poltergeist, Philip Ridley's blazing one-man show from 2020. It is a terrific piece of writing, a text which is a masterpiece of stor…
The last few years in politics have gifted the keen observer many allusions to some of Shakespeare's best-loved works. From the Midsummer Night's (fever) Dream the electorate might think the…
The Unbelieving is documentary theater (all the lines are taken from real interviews), but this contemplative piece about clergy members who have stopped believing in God moves less like a s…
F*ck7thGrade is messy, it's awkward, it's unrelentingly earnest, and it's utterly delightful. Singer-songwriter Jill Sobule's queer coming-of-age concert musical didn't win me over right awa…
The International Association for Theatre Leaders (IATL) would like to invite you to The International Workshop Series for Emerging Theatre Leaders, November 30 " December 7, 2022. The Inter…
It was well past midnight on October 2, 2021. Current Plans"at the time known as Present Projects"had just opened its fifth group show, Fault Lines, and Hong Kong's creatives lingered to …
Dedicated to the 125th anniversary of the legendary hero of the famous gothic novel "Dracula", written by Bram Stoker who this year turns 175! One hundred and twenty-five years ago the Irish…
The Handke Project, Kosovo Theatre Showcase, Teatri Oda, 26th October 2022 If The Handke Project " written by Kosovo and international playwright Jeton Neziraj and directed by his wife Blert…
Martin Crimp's Not One of These People at the Royal Court: radical investigation of presence and absence in fiction
Dmitry Troyanovsky is a theatre and opera director living in Boston, MA. Born in Kyiv, Ukraine (then USSR), Dmitry moved to NYC in his teenage years as a refugee. His works could be…
Sudha Bhuchar's Evening Conversations at the Soho Theatre: a calmly intelligent exploration of family identity
Is this the first memorial disco theatre piece of its kind in modern theatre? Well, it's a disco all right. The traditional disco ball is replaced by a rotating Husino Miner, a sculpture of …
Masque theatre is hosting Cape Town Theatre Company's A Picture of Dorian Gray. "A Picture of Dorian Gray, not 'The' Picture"one person's vision only" Playwright and director, Liz Roodt i…
Buchner's "historically difficult explains modernity" in the performance of Woyczek by the National Theater of Hungary (Nemzeti SzÃnház) sets the region on fire to the great delight…
Bill Irwin greets the audience by conveying that the performance will be around 90 minutes (by way of reassurance, he admits). In truth, the performance zips by. Irwin dazzles as he pontific…
The African Theatre Magazine invites applicants to the second edition of the Writing about African Arts workshop. Since 2018 The African Theatre Magazine's goal has been to offer diverse …
I was struggling to find my seat at New World Stages when two people a bit older than me wearing signed, Melissa Etheridge t-shirts, called me over to their row and asked if I needed help. T…
Review: When the World Turns, by Polyglot Theatre and Oily Cart When the World Turns is a beautiful new work designed for children with complex disabilities and their families. Australian ch…
This year is the 125th Anniversary of the famous gothic novel written by the Irish writer Bram Stoker " Dracula. 125 years have passed since the book was first published in 1897 by Archibald…