If you've ever felt like you were just playing a part in your own life"waiting for a big break or a magic potion to finally make you feel successful"then Coni Koepfinger's The Unusual Chaunc…
An Interview with Mr. Muanis Sinanovic (Slovenia), poet, writer, essayist, and critic. Muanis Sinanovic (1989) is a Slovenian poet, writer, essayist, and critic. He has published four poetry…
In February 2025, after completing The Geography of the Theatre Imagination: The Case of Complicité course offered at the University of GdaÅ„sk by Tomasz WiÅ›niewski, the four student…
Adapted from the Booker Prize"winning novel by Irish author Paul Lynch, Prophet Song is staged by the ITA Ensemble (International Theatre Amsterdam) under the direction of Iranian-born Germa…
I first saw Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Film, The Marriage of Maria Braun not long after it first came out, when I was an undergraduate studying theater and film. We were interested in Europe…
An Interview with Mr. Meir Bar-Giora (Hungary/Israel/China), theatre and performing arts agent based in Shanghai. Meir Bar-Giora is agent /manager of FCE Fringe Cultural Entertainment Age…
FOG, Milan's performing arts festival, is back with some rare treats for theatregoers keen to discover the best in cutting-edge work on international circuits, as well as emerging artists, w…
Plays about famous people have always held special attraction to dramatists, theatres and audiences. Plays about famous artists (such as actors, musicians, painters, and poets) have held a p…
Rok VilÄnik (b. 1968), also known as rokgre, is a prominent Slovenian author, poet, playwright, lyricist, and multidisciplinary artist working across theatre, literature, music, televisio…
On the opening night of Miracle in Milan at the Piccolo Teatro Strehler, the excitement of the audience, flocking into the 968-seater auditorium, was tangible. Seventy-five years after the e…
An Enemy of the People was first introduced to Greek audiences in 1902 by the pioneering "New Stage" of Konstantinos Christomanos. This year, An Enemy of the People is being staged at the Kn…
Jake Brasch's The Reservoir tells the story of a charmingly self-deprecating, openly gay NYU theater student named Josh who is a chronically relapsing drunk. Josh wakes up after a blackout n…
The newly published book Digital Access to the Performing Arts: A Comparative Study of Legal and Structural Challenges by Magda Romanska (Bristol University Press, 2026) has been selected by…
Dea Loher (b. 1964), has been a prominent German dramatist since the world premiere of her first play, Olgas Raum, in 1991. Her publisher, Verlag der Autoren, lists 24 plays. Frau Yamamoto i…
Ngozi Anyanwu's The Monsters is a poignant and muscular two-hander about a Black brother and sister, estranged for 16 years, who reconcile over intensive training in MMA fighting. It's a swe…
By a fortuitous coincidence, a new theatre-work The Chair and The Cello " which features an armchair manufactured by a Swedish homewares corporation " premiered two days before that same cor…
Balding men are often precious about their hair. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was no exception. First in Spain, and later during his exile in France following General Franco's victory in the Sp…
Today, in Geneva, there are tentative peace talks between Ukraine and Russia; today, in London, there is a powerful play about the ongoing war. Oddly enough, it is fringe venues, the Finboro…
Basra is shaped by louder forces such as oil, politics, and the constant negotiation of visible and invisible censorship. Against these forces, theatre appears fragile. And yet, it speaks. N…
Terence Rattigan is a posh playwright whose work encapsulates the emotional restraint of the 1950s, and who was overtaken by the Angry Young Men. Right? Wrong! Although this sketch of his ca…
In late January and early February, Filippo Timi's Hamlet² played to full houses at the 500-seater auditorium of Milan's Franco Parenti theatre. One of the finest actors in contemporary I…
Anticipation and intrigue flood the room" a room which both is and is not the club. I and around 120 of the most stylish people I have ever seen have been herded into taped off sections of t…
Somewhat on the fringes of the Poland-Romania Cultural Season, the 2025 Between.PomiÄ™dzy Festival follows the pattern of bilateral events, by bridging the cultural worlds of these two co…
In January, the NYC Under the Radar Festival presented some of the most innovative and thought-provoking work on the contemporary stage. This year's edition, the festival's largest to date, …
Some shows have great moments, but somehow just don't work " the whole is less than the sum of its parts. This is my feeling about Frantic Assembly's 30th anniversary show, Lost Atoms, which…