To re-open its season after the lifting of COVID-19-related restrictions, Paris's Théâtre de la Ville consortium is welcoming back one of its former productions: Six Characters in Search…
Tadeusz Różewicz (1921-1914) might need a few words of introduction for English-speaking readers, although he shouldn't. Poet, dramatist, writer of film scripts, prose writer, satirist…
The Spanish capital ranks amongst the European cities with the highest mortality rates for COVID-19, with deaths exceeding 2,200 per million (around 25% higher than London, and 33% more than…
Online performance, streamed instead of attended, has given theatre companies an immense amount of flexibility. Suddenly, the digital world offers all kinds of different freedoms. A good exa…
The Trianon Viviani Theatre is located in the Forcella quarter of the ancient center of Naples. It was inaugurated on November 8, 1911, with the famous comedy, Miseria e Nobiltà (Poverty …
During the AAPI (Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders) heritage month, let us explore the fascinating works by East Asian directors and actors. The AAPI month honors the living, hybrid Asia…
A short documentary opening the series entitled Spradyczni artyÅ›ci (Sporadic Artists, dir. MaÅ‚gorzata Jakubowska in collaboration with Magdalena Mucha, 2020) premiered at this year's…
Now in its twelfth year, the Between.PomiÄ™dzy Festival of Literature and Theatre has made much of its international impact with extraordinary special theatrical events like legendary Pol…
AURIC (Songs from a Golden Age)Â at the Brighton Fringe is a unique aural journey and experience that " if not for Covid " would be ideally performed live in a church, or a cave, or any ot…
Can we be in two places at once? Can an event happen online and offline simultaneously? The current pandemic situation has taught us that we can overcome many problems. We can flourish despi…
The online performance depicts marriage rituals and interactions in the digital world with a touch of humor. Corporate executives Abhishek and Manya find each other on shaadipakki.com (a fic…
Although tragedy is not usually the preferred companion for hard times, Anglophone pop culture gravitated towards King Lear through memes and quotes during the global pandemic of COVID-19. O…
Written in 1918, Lu Xun's A Madman's Diary marked the advent of modern Chinese literature. Generally understood as an attack on the "cannibalistic" nature of traditional Chinese society and …
The Hong Kong Arts Festival has simultaneously commissioned two provocative productions of Neil Bartlett's The Plague, an adaptation of Albert Camus' famous novella. In 2016, an unusual poli…
The past year has, in many ways, turned a sharper lens towards our bodies, particularly our physical relationship to the world around us. The pandemic-fueled absence of bodily connection, an…
The 39th Fadjr International Theater Festival celebrated a wide range of performances, from staged plays and street performances to radio plays and television plays (Teletheater), over ten d…
The Madras Players' Trinity, filmed by a four-camera set up, will be made available for a global audience in June. In 2020, the celebrated trinity of Carnatic music "Thyagaraja Swamy, Muthus…
Every month, Etcetera gazes into the soul of a performer. Artistic interest instead of human interest. This time, the honor goes to Brazilian choreographer Lia Rodrigues, who works in Maré,…
I think I can safely say that polymath playwright Philip Ridley has had a good lockdown. In March last year, when The Beast of Blue Yonder, his new show for Southwark Playhouse, was closed d…
In August 2020, Battery Dance shifted its annual Battery Dance Festival to a virtual format. The Festival is a storied free public dance festival commanding a large audience each year. Shift…
The premiere of La realidad, the new play by DarÃo Facal and Pedro Cantalejo, was in March at the Corral de Comedias, Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), one of the oldest and most beautiful t…
Pale Sister is the latest adaptation of the Sophoclean tragedy, Antigone (c. 441 BC), written by Irish playwright Colm TóibÃn especially for award-winning (and fellow countrywoman) per…
On the 21st March 2020, I put out a simple message on my Facebook profile in response to the increasing use of online video communications due to the imminent COVID-19 lockdown: "Be creative…
It's been a decade of a year, and The Geffen Playhouse (or Geffen Stayhouse as they have been referring to themselves since the pandemic changed our lives) has been reinventing their theatri…
Lerumo, written and directed by Malaika Ntsoeu and featuring Malaika Motshabi Ntsoeu, Malefu Mariti and Tankiso Sebabole, just closed on 11 April 2021. It was part of the just ended Kuwamba …