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The management of the Sharm El-Sheikh International Theatre Festival for Youth (SITFY) revealed that it has received 302 performances from local, regional, and international troupes willing …
Gluck's Iphégenie en Tauride doesn't waste any time ushering the viewer into its mystical score. From the start, a musical storm brews in the orchestra pit, bringing Euripides's Greek drama…
The 28th iteration of the 28th Aspendos Opera and Ballet Festival, which kicked off on Sept. 4 in Turkey's Mediterranean resort city of Antalya, continues with exclusive performances, compri…
The Thrissur-based collective has been organizing performances in the homes of artists and streaming them live on Facebook to raise funds. Drama has been the only source of income for 51-yea…
The poets say that Love will be the world's great redeemer, But love is rarely quite as pure as what they describe And if that's the payment, the Gates should require The price is not that h…
The Real Bosco di Capodimonte is more than a public park in Naples: it is a Paradise, not far from the center of the city. The visitors have the possibility to enjoy a huge, green area wi…
Based on an American novel detailing the country's troubled 20th century, the new Belgian opera The Time of Our Singing evokes racial discord in the United States through the story of a mixe…
It's hard to prepare for life's high and lows when you think too highly of yourself to expect them. You will bet on yourself, but you won't hedge the pursuit of that dream with a surer, albe…
In a normal country, plays like Text Me When You Arrive, which has just ended a short run at the Market Theatre, would not be necessary, but this is not a normal country. To have an en…
When Keito Okamoto was offered the title role in French dramatist Florian Zeller's latest work, The Son, he felt the play was written about him. "It was completely astonishing," he says. And…
Are we too obsessed with Nazism? Apart from countless television programs which revisit that grim era, as fact or as fiction, in monochrome or in color, briefly or at length, there has recen…
As the theatre world in Canada and the US anxiously expects the final re-opening of Broadway and still lives in the uncertainty marked by Covid-19 without the clear promise of what the futur…
"Stop now! See that? You see that cloud? That beautiful shape?" That is what Ken Reynolds would say to his daughter Adele when they went for walks in the countryside in her youth. "He was al…
He supports the Freeszfe Association and condemns the curtailment of artistic freedom. We asked Robert Wilson about the why. He also sent a message to young Hungarians. AN INTERVIEW BY PANNI…
Following a summit of industry leaders organized by Black Theatre United earlier this year, a coalition of Broadway theater owners, producers, union leaders, creators and casting directors a…
The Kenya Theatre Awards seek to fill these two gaps by tracking and watching all performances in the country and providing data and statistics on the number of venues, performances staged, …
A new age of digital theatre is rising on the horizon, and its dawn is being accelerated by the global COVID-19 pandemic. A new platform developed to facilitate this concept and keep audienc…
Does a diva ever really die? It's a fitting question from the reigning queen of endurance art, Marina Abramović. Her first original opera, 7 Deaths of Maria Callas, is a tribute to the t…
By making his 12-year-old dream come true, director Mohmed Abdalla aims to send a message of hope to all mime theatre artists in Egypt, urging them to continue their efforts. Halawes (Halluc…
In 2017, the cosmetics company Nivea released an advert that was promptly pulled: a white woman's back, draped in a diaphanous, blanched robe, could be seen juxtaposed against the caption "W…
For more than three decades, playwright Winsome Pinnock has been at the forefront of new writing, often experimenting with form as well as documenting the lives of Black Britons. Her new pla…
"We have in essence what could be the most beautiful country in the world, we have great weather, we have friendlier people than I have met travelling elsewhere, and every seven years or so,…
The festival took place in Alexandria between 22 and 26 August 2021. During the official closing ceremony that took place at the Anfoushi Cultural Palace Theatre, the Theatre Without Fund Fe…
The play casts famous actors like Eyad Nassar, Sama Ibrahim and Sherif Desouky as well as singers Mohamed El-Sharnouby and Carmen Soliman Egyptian theatre play Yama Fel Gerab Ya Hawy, starri…
Danastri Rizqi Nabilah, a filmmaker from Yogyakarta " a city in Indonesia known for its education and art " has no choice but to sell snacks after losing up to 40% of her income during the p…