For American audiences, the musical The Devil Wears Prada, anticipated to premiere on Broadway in 2026, will become the sixth musical theatre creation featuring the music by Sir Elton John, …
The "Screen / Stage" program was created as a space for shared viewing, discussion, and reflection on digital forms of contemporary theatre. Positioned at the intersection of live performanc…
For this production of Shakespeare's play, Oldenburgisches Staatstheateer used the 2007 translation by theatre studies professor, dramatist and translator Jens Roselt, who is a graduate of t…
Neapolitan poet and dramatist Enzo Moscato passed away in 2024 at the age of 75. Together with Annibale Ruccello and Manilio Santanelli, he came to fame in the 1980s as one of the leading ex…
A shimmering Andes mountain range made of light and weave. The sound of rattling bells. A brown-skinned man dressed in a colourful poncho, walks through the mountains, arriving at the stage …
At the risk of sounding smug, let me say: I have been yowling, since the early days of the internet, to anyone who would listen, about the dangers of relinquishing our personal data and priv…
There were two key themes running through this year's Teatro a Mil, the Chilean capital's long-running theatre and performing arts festival. "Yes, Theatre Matters" may have been the festival…
A Place of Safety, A Journey in the Central Mediterranean, produced by the Kepler-452 Company played at the Angela Melato Studio, Piccolo Theatre, from 6 to 20 December. Founded in Bologna i…
In the opening scene of Puana, a musical play written and directed by Professor Tammy Haili'Åpua Baker, a curious young man sifts through a trunk of memorabilia in his family home. As he …
Before the Storm is set in a rather dilapidated dressing room where an elderly actor waits to go onstage for his last performance in August Strindberg's Storm. As he waits, he reflects on hi…
The morning of the day I saw Narcissister's spellbinding and stunningly original Voyage Into Infinity I had been working my day job at a bagel shop. "There's no flow!" I overheard one of the…
Many, especially prestigious, new productions of Chekhov's The Seagull in the UK and USA commission new translations or versions of the play. For example, in 1985, for his West End productio…
Wet Mess is a captivating performer with a playfully defined aesthetic. Their checkerboard face and giant phallic objects (somewhat reminiscent of the sprawling shapes of Yayoi Kusama) were …
Encounters between artists and practitioners are invariably profound experiences, where knowledge is exchanged in real time as a lived practice. Such meetings allow one to gain a holistic pe…
Bremen's Packhaustheater set its agenda with a focus on the local, so as not to compete with the municipal theatre, the two comedy theatres, the Bremer Shakespeare Company and the theatre sp…
New Year, new line up of West End stars. This time it's the turn of Olivier-Award-winner Sheridan Smith and multi-award-winning comedian Romesh Ranganathan, both household names, now appeari…
A towering figure in Chicago theatre, Charles Newell"former Marilyn F. Vitale Artistic Director of Court Theatre and 2024 Joseph Jefferson Special Award recipient"discusses the five-year pro…
It's very hard to define Chiao-Jung Chen as one kind of artist, for she is someone who works fluidly across genres. She has worked as a playwright, a librettist, and a lyricist on various pr…
Berlin at Chicago's Court Theatre (April"May 2025) was nothing short of a theatrical triumph. Directed by the seasoned Charles Newell, who has helmed the Court Theatre for three decades, the…
We all know the iconic closing lines: "For never was a story of more woe / Than this of Juliet and her Romeo." But after experiencing a recent performance of Leili and Majnun at Centra…
"So high you can kiss the sky" is one of the many iconic lines from With Ruby and I, a debut show by playwright Corrina O'Beirne, which premiered at the Brighton Fringe in 2025 and is up for…
How do forgiveness and reconciliation projects help heal a country's collective trauma and contribute to its future nation-building? What role does theatre play in this social activity? Thes…
The play Nebenan was premiered at Burgtheater Wien in 2022, based on the film of the same title (international title: Next Door) by Daniel Brühl (2021) in a production directed by the then …
There are directors who have gotten us accustomed to treading on unconventional paths. They have trained us to expect the unexpected, the off-the-beaten-track. And we appreciate them, not be…
In 2019, Landestheater Salzburg used a new translation of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People as the basis for a version of the play in which Dr Katrine Stockmann was female, a single mother to h…