Saudi Arabia's Minister of Culture, Badr bin Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Farhan Al Saud, announced that the Kingdom is preparing to add music, theatre, and art departments in its universities.…
Hamilton Disney+ "The world turned upside down", proclaim the cast of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton (2016) after an epic retelling of siege of Yorktown, which led to the British surrender an…
This article is part of the Dramaturgs' Network's Invisible Diaries series. In a moment of freedom from time and gravity. Noticing information entering my body As if there is nothing e…
Lorraine Hansberry's debut, A Raisin in the Sun, was the first drama written by a black woman to be produced on Broadway, where it opened in 1959. It is now an American classic, but it's …
"They've locked us in here and they're going to wait for the virus to finish us off." Thus goes a caption on a WhatsApp GIF Dalen sends to fellow retail workers. The workers have just found …
The performing arts and celebrations domain of the South African creative industries is severely impacted by the national lockdown. The lockdown regulations meant that the jobs many performi…
Theatre Artist Inside look Morgan Grambo, recent MFA graduate of Dramaturgy from the University of Iowa, gives us her perspective on the current climate in the field and the impact of the th…
As many have already said, the best streamed performances seem to be those that are made for the online venue. This is opposed to shows that originally debuted for live audiences and happene…
Qassem Amin, a dance performance staged by the Egyptian Modern Dance Theatre Company, has been released on Egypt's culture ministry's YouTube channel. The performance was first staged bac…
Pressure on the German theatre and cultural landscape has increased significantly since the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany party won seats in parliament. The institutions have d…
Across cultures, the self-making powers of storytelling are widely recognized. Steve Biko, the South African Black Consciousness thinker, once said that we need to speak from whe…
Maja Kleczewska's and Åukasz Chotkowski's Berek is like a dive into a dark spot of history, a confrontation with facts that are not so much denied as viewed as irrelevant in the Polish hi…
If you want to understand a nation and its people, look no farther than its art. Through a country's paintings, poetry or drama, the treasures, the dreams and aspirations of its people are s…
Artists are crucial to the futures we're imagining beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. The vitality of the societies we wish to return to are vibrant in large part because they sound a…
Solomon Mikhoels, one of the founders and greatest stars of the Soviet Yiddish theater, wrote in 1919, "fierce raged the tempest of revolution on the street…and human eyes and overly human…
Tianjiao Li and Xuexi Li from Quirky Moth Theatre " China's leading theatre company " respond to William Kentridge. The discussion focuses on the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic had on Chi…
For the first part of this article go here. No coherent government program has been put in place to help artists during the pandemic. Most of them, especially freelancers, are not covered by…
Edwardian dramatist St John Ervine was once, along with Arthur Wing Pinero, Henry Arthur Jones, Harley Granville Barker and George Bernard Shaw, hailed as a British Ibsen. They wrote problem…
When Disney released a film version of the musical Hamilton on July 3, it was 11 years since Lin-Manuel Miranda performed an early number at a White House evening hosted by the Obamas. Watch…
The coronavirus pandemic is laying bare the ills gnawing at Polish theatres, such as starvation rates, precarious freelance work, people working without contracts and the inability of some t…
At the backyard of his home at Kattappana in Idukki district, GK Pannamkuzhy set up a pyre. It was the setting for his 11-minute play, Mannaamkatta, which reflects on the plight of a farm…
After four months of closure, theaters in Iran are able to open because they implemented necessary health protocols to avoid coronavirus spread. They were one of the last businesses to reope…
What have millennial women fought for? "Did we fight for that? Why we fought for nothing," cries one of the two nameless "more important halves" in this eponymous play. This generational doc…
In April 2020 Wine&Halva, a play by Turkish playwright and theater researcher Deniz BaÅŸar, had a staged reading at the University of Regina. Art Babayants from Toronto Laboratory Thea…
I've hit the wall. The big move is over but moving the "small stuff" all day reminded me how important it is to take breaks and lay your burdens down. We're so "on and available" these days,…