Even though history has seen different disasters and humanitarian crises, one fact remains: we try to understand what is happening by seeing how others coped, comparing our reaction to their…
In June 2017 the eminent New Zealand actor Dame Kate Harcourt celebrated her 90th birthday at Circa Theatre in Wellington, where she was in rehearsals for a new play Destination Beehive. Two…
Sweat, by Lynn Nottage, is a cautionary tale about how the effects of poverty, or the threat of it, breeds divisiveness among the middle class and poor. Thanks in large part to the actors' c…
In March 2020, Colden Lamb had the opportunity to sit down with award-winning costume designer Judith Dolan and ask her about her work on multiple productions of Candide with legendary di…
Anyone looking for evidence of just how devastating the COVID-19 pandemic has been to Australia's performing arts industry need look no further than its flagship company, Opera Australia. On…
Do you know the Urdu word for story? No? Well, look it up. Okay, this might prove a bit tricky, so let me suggest an easier route: buy a ticket to participate in We Are Shadows: Brick Lane, …
Despite national and regional COVID-19 guidelines for the logistical elements of performance, audience capacity and conduct in indoor and open-air theatres, a number of independent dance fes…
In the post-Soviet area, the play's path to the stage has always been a thorny one, so the drama of the post-Soviet countries is still little known abroad. However, with initiatives such as …
The Butoh dance " born in Japan in the late '50s, and welcomed and metabolized by the West in the '80s " is not annulled in the stereotype of a technique handed down and transmittable, but l…
Madrid is the European capital worst hit by COVID-19. There nevertheless remains more theatrical activity than in most other cities. Based on the 2015 book by investigative journalist Nacho …
"The use of Kerala's traditional puppetry in a music video by director Emcy Joseph throws open a world of possibilities for the art form." Kochi's metro train gliding over tracks, a traffic …
Starting September 2020, Festival Experiences, a subsidiary company of the Festival d'Avignon presents an online series of historical content from the archives of the past 20 years of the Fe…
Consciousness, cognition, and perception have fascinated Jisun Kim and The House of Sorrow is a mind-mending Möbius strip of a show, blending Buddhist philosophy with video game strea…
Actor and former BJP MP Paresh Rawal has been appointed as the chairperson of the National School of Drama society by President Ram Nath Kovind, Union Culture Minister Prahlad Singh Patel sa…
The pandemic, like the tragedy of the 21st century, has a theatrical mode, and the social response to navigate it is to build an internal script to resist and survive; the situation has gene…
My family is not Jewish and therefore I never celebrated Jewish holidays at home. However, I have celebrated them"Sabbath, Rosh Hashanah, Chanukah, Passover"in meaningful moments of my life …
SEEDS Bojana Cvejić: In your solo 21 Pornographies, the last scene, in which you are relentlessly turning with a neon-like lamp above your head, appears as a 'seed' of Moving in Concert.…
You pass through a wide doorway to a large space with good air circulation. Inside, an usher behind a screen scans your ticket and sends you onward. Signs on the carpet direct you to the lar…
On Monday, August 31st, 2020, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater presented a benefit concert of Soldiergirls, a new two-person musical with book and lyrics by Em Weinstein and music by…
Zoom plays can feel a little dry. I'm sure, after months of this quarantine, we've all had the experience: watching incredibly talented actors speak incredibly well-written words, though una…
On August 27th, China Daily in Hong Kong held the fifth webinar of a series called "Creative Industry Insiders Discuss Survival Strategies in Pandemic Times". China Daily is one of the estab…
It's late on a Friday night in July and I'm setting up my kitchen for co-hosting an online puppet cabaret, Slamalicious, with the Calgary Animated Object Society (CAOS). This raucous, intera…
100 years ago the first-ever professional theatre in the modern history of Belarus opened its doors for the audience. Though the history of the Belarusian State Theatre dates back to the …
In the era of Covid 19, when our theatres have been forced to close throughout Aotearoa/New Zealand, we find ourselves unable to rehearse or to present our work to a live audience. This has …
LILIAN, the debut radio play from award-winning composer Kasia GÅ‚owicka, will premiere Friday, September 18 as part of the Warszawska JesieÅ„ (Warsaw Autumn) cultural festival. Based …