A blend of evocative medieval accompaniment and leaping modern Soprano melodies, The Anchoress is a fascinating album to speak to our present moment of self-isolation. Opening with a buzz…
While theaters around the United States typically produce The Rocky Horror Picture Show around Halloween, the city of Chicago, Illinois has a different tradition. Starting in 1987, The Annoy…
Camp is very much in season in Circle Jerk, a pitched-to-the-rafters romp from new media and theater collective Fake Friends. The show bills itself as an investigation of digital life and wh…
In September 2019, the UNESCO Cities of Literature Short Play Festival took place in Dunedin, New Zealand. One of the major events marking the University of Otago's 150th anniversary, the Fe…
Faustimir and Mephistragon The misery of the aging white man, who once diligently studied philosophy, law, and medicine, and yet still finds himself waiting for "gods eller guld eller ære…
Tim Norwood describes himself as an emerging theatre-maker from Sheffield. He's queer, disabled, and happily mining them both for material. He uses personal and confessional writing to make …
The new play Insulted. Belarus(sia) was written in September 2020 by Andrei Kureichik, a prominent Belarusian playwright and member of the Coordination Council of Belarus, about the first mo…
With a larger than usual stage, spaced out seating for a masked audience and actors armed with negative COVID-19 test results, the National School of Drama is preparing for its first product…
Back in January, when English director Lindsay Posner visited Tokyo for preparatory meetings to stage the iconic courtroom drama Twelve Angry Men at Bunkamura Theatre Cocoon in Shibuya Ward,…
As Agnipankh is televised, Mita Vashisht reflects on the shifts in theatre due to the pandemic. Under the spotlight, the silhouette of a woman becomes visible. Clad in a silk saree, she is s…
There's no denying that COVID-19 has been a financial and connectivity nightmare for artists. Theatre, in particular, thrives off of that human-to-human connection: it's what brings in theat…
Online streaming of videos of kabuki plays, including an adaptation of a manga and an animated film by Oscar-winning Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki, began on Wednesday amid the novel coron…
Paul Desveaux is the director of Compagnie L'Héliotrope. In the United States, he recently staged Pollock, written by Fabrice Melquiot, with two American actors. The production, which…
Actor and artistic director Atul Kumar speaks on the need to experiment with 'form' to make theatre more engaging A woman haunted by insomnia, a djinn, and a hallucinatory mind during …
Niayesh Nahavandian is a young, Iranian female performing artist that has lived and worked in Italy for five years. She has performed and studied with various Italian theater companies inclu…
Mid-September brought us a week of new, Polish theatre productions, and a sneak peek behind the curtains into the inner workings of Warsaw's cultural institutions amid the pandemic's second …
While we believed in the upward mobility of America in every way, we became shockingly aware of our tragic limits. Â In "An Astronaut's Tale," we get every sense of looming and desperate f…
If the United States again accuses Russia of interfering in the election, it will almost certainly be the Vakhtangov Theatre that is to blame because it is the culprit of its own, all-theatr…
Review: Wonnangatta by Angus Cerini, directed by Jessica Arthur, Sydney Theatre Company Theatre is back in Sydney after the COVID"induced hiatus decimated the cultural life of the city. W…
Performing arts festivals and opportunities to enjoy live entertainment have been few and far between this year due to the ongoing pandemic, but dramatist Oriza Hirata, 57, has hopes for his…
Basing his work on Naguib Mahfouz's 1981 polyphonic novel Afrah Al-Qobba's Wedding Song, the director Mohamed Youssef El-Mansour adds his touch with an unexpected ending. Afrah Al-Qobba (Wed…
Actor Shernaz Patel speaks about supervising the transition of theatre to benefit an online audience at Aadyam, and what this shift means to the art form's future Shernaz Patel holds on to t…
African musical theatre seems to be growing by leaps and bounds. In the last couple of years, African directors have exhibited a keen interest in the genre. Nigeria's Bolanle Austin-Peters w…
"I'm so glad I saw it live!" That's what I said after the nerve-wracking Game 6 of the NBA Eastern Conference Playoff Series between the Toronto Raptors and Boston Celtics that I watched wit…
When the history of British theatre's response to COVID-19 comes to be written, the names of two men will feature prominently: Nicholas Hytner and Nick Starr. The "two Nicks" were the creati…