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Louis Siu is performing the oldest known musical practice in the world, in a coffee shop in North Point. "This is percussion," he says, tapping the table. "This is percussion," he demonstrat…
Every month, Etcetera gazes into the soul of a performing artist. We choose artistic interest over human interest. This time, we are happy to give the word to Florentina Holzinger (1986). Sh…
A few days ago, I lost one of my dearest theatre friends, my most avid and soul-searching correspondent over the years, Alaknanda Samarth. In a way, her death was a blessing because she was …
The National Theatre has a good record in staging classic American drama by black playwrights. James Baldwin's The Amen Corner, August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and Lorraine…
A day at the National Children's Theatre in the magical IMAGINATION Outdoor Theatre is a day like no other especially for children, young adults and their parents or guardians who throng the…
Chinese cities have established thousands of new museums over the past two decades, but construction is all too often motivated by dreams of real estate riches rather than accessibility. Eve…
A musical theatre legend has died. Stephen Sondheim, the greatest composer-lyricist of his generation, passed away on November 26 at the age of 91. His dramatic genius combined a rare ble…
If you've never seen an opera before, start here. If you've seen a ton of opera before, re-start here. The Met's new production of Matthew Aucoin's Eurydice with libretto by Sarah Ruhl (base…
A week after Josephine Baker posthumously entered the French Panthéon, a musical about two producers with a hairbrained scheme to outrage all "races, creeds and religions" debuted at the Th…
The 28th edition of the Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theater (CIFET) takes place between 14 and 19 December, offering 14 plays in its main competition, in addition to worksh…
All the rage in Bejing's stand-up circuit, Pazilye Parhat says much of comedy stems from genuine anger she's experienced all her life. A little after 8 p.m. on the eve of the Mid-Autumn Fest…
After lockdown, the stage monologue saved British theatre. At venue after venue, cash-strapped companies put single actors into simple playing spaces to deliver good stories for audiences th…
After its premiere at north London's Almeida Theatre in 2019, Robert Icke's The Doctor earned glowing reviews and plaudits, most notably Olivier Award nominations for best new play and best …
Indoor theatre is back. Despite audiences being inscrutable in masks, I've seen two packed shows and begun to believe that theatres are finally recovering after a dreadful year. But the outd…
Why are we indifferent to anti-Semitism? In the past few weeks the Royal Court, a proud citadel of wokeness, has been embroiled in an appalling case of prejudice by allowing a character, who…
What has been left after all well-written dialogues, which were once deemed to be the spirit of Shakespeare's play, were to be removed? An all-female nonverbal stage version of King Lear ada…
For anyone wondering if live theater offers nothing but escapism from our mini-plague"or worse"on the nose woke-ism, last weekend's Science in Theater festival proved a stunning demonstratio…
Rena Matsui always knew she wanted to enter the acting world, and launching her career by performing in idol-pop groups was all part of her plan. She started out as a member of the Nagoya-ba…
Cruel Games at the Mossovet Theater is not just the name of a forgotten play by Alexei Arbuzov, but a new genre by the theatre's recently appointed artistic director, Yevgeny Marchelli. The …
This Fall, the international Theatre HD company Stage Russia enters its fifth season. With a variety of shows and genres to choose from, the company now offers an all-inclusive season pass. …
"I have an aversion to 'immersive theater,'" Tiago Rodrigues says at the beginning of By Heart. He says this as he asks ten audience members to join him on stage for the performance. Rodrigu…
In 2014, the Latino Theater Company (LTC) re-ignited the Latinx theatre festival tradition, a legacy that has been a mainstay of Chicanx and Latinx theatre-making in the United States for ov…
Theatre saved my life. By the time TheTheatreTimes.com appeared, I had already crossed one continent and one ocean. Looking at the Broadway lights standing at the corner of 42nd Street and 6…
The dance performance Arbeit by Å imun Stankov, Una Å talcar-FuraÄ and Espi TomiÄić takes inspiration from construction work and demystifies artwork as something particular, ap…
TheTheatreTimes.com's International Online Theatre Festival is the second-place winner of the Culture Online International Award for "Best Online Project." In 2021, a total of 452 projects w…
