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In March, FOG – Milan’s annual performing arts festival – hosted Handle with Care, a production by Ontroerend Goed, the well-known performance-group from Ghent in Belgium. Ontroerend G…
To read PART I of this essay, go to this link. Having consulted with mana whenua[1]People with with authority over a certain area, in this case the people with authority over the area loc…
This article is dedicated to the memory of Rua McCallum – teacher, kaitiaki, scholar, performance practitioner, and playwright – who passed away on May 9th 2024. In her article “The Li…
Bondi Beach was premiered on the 7th of October 2023 at the municipal theatre in Ingolstadt. Further Productions followed in Regensburg, and the Hans-Otto-Theater in Potsdam in 2024/ 2025…
Already active across a number of north European theatre contexts " from her base in Lithuania to Sweden, Norway and Germany " American- and Russian-trained director Yana Ross has just made …
Every day, for many weeks, we keep hearing about nuclear weapons. Part of the reason for the current attack on Iran by the United States and Israel is the idea, whether true or not, that the…
MITEM (Madách International Theatre Meeting), held annually at the National Theatre in Budapest, is one of Central Europe's major international theatre festivals. Since its founding in 20…
David Safier was born in Bremen in 1966. He trained as a journalist, worked as radio and TV presenter and script writer for TV before he turned his attention to writing novels. Those have be…
Mark Rosenblatt's new play Giant is a sensational, admirable, and courageous effort to Make Anti-Semitism Despicable Again. MADA baseball caps coming soon. You read it here first. The play, …
The new stage adaptation of Dog Day Afternoon just opened on Broadway, directed by Rupert Goold, doesn't seem sure who its target audience is. If you went not knowing the source material (th…
An Interview with Mr. Denni Dennis, internationally renowned dancer, performer, educator-trainer (Denmark/Russia/Kazakhstan). Denni Dennis is born in Denmark/based in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Tra…
Okay, this is odd. The original novel, Les Liaisons dangereuses, first published in 1782, features a rich and powerful man and woman positively exulting in their manipulation of a much young…
In 2016, Austrian director Christian Krönes and colleagues launched their two-hour documentary film Ein deutsches Leben, about Brunhilde Pomsel (1911 " 2017). To a large extent, the film fe…
was a student of Lee Strasburg in his private class. I was directing around town, off-off Broadway, and in other areas in New York. I was invited to go to his Directors Unit at The A…
An Interview with Mr. Hassane Kassi Kouyaté, Chair of the International Artistic Committee of MASA " Marché des Arts du Spectacle Africain d'Abidjan, Ivory Coast /Republic of Côte d'Ivo…
Dedicated to the composer's 25th Broadway anniversary David Yazbek burst onto Broadway a quarter century ago with the musical "The Full Monty" and immediately gained recognition as a compose…
Falk Richter was born in 1969. He studied linguistics, philosophy and theatre directing at the University of Hamburg, the city in which he was born. He has since developed a noted and intern…
Who better to breathe new life into Shakespeare's Tempest than Tim Crouch " a magician extraordinaire of the 21st century British theatre? There are several strands of his career that land r…
Luciana Acuña is one of the most exciting figures in contemporary dance. Her energy lit up La edad media/ The Middle Ages, the 2022 Covid-19 lockdown film she co-directed with her partner…
A week ago today, the winner of the 2026 Ibsen International Award was announced by the Norwegian National Theatre. This year's winner Jaha Koo is a remarkable interdisciplinary artist and t…
For his newest play, La última noche con mi hermano (The Last Night With My Brother), Alfredo Sanzol has taken inspiration from a friend telling him about the final night she spent with h…
The Schnürschuh-Theater in Bremen was founded in 1976 and has been at its current location since 1994. For 2025 it received public institutional funding of 92250 € (compared with 34,3…
An Interview with theatre director and theatre festival manager Zoran Rakocevic, Kolasin-Podgorica, Montenegro, Europe. Zoran Rakocevic is a Montenegrin theatre director and founder of the K…
It is ridiculous to think that it's not enough to curate a Festival. I would stack up our good to bad ratio against any network season, any Hollywood studio, any program season. It's…
What does it mean to be honest with your partner? This is the premise that governs Salomé Lelouch's entertaining two-hander, Mejor no decirlo/You Shouldn't Have Said So which presents a cou…
