2,031 stories from The Theatre Times
In 1971, in New York's SoHo neighborhood, a site-specific dance performance " one in which the 'site' in question encompassed a dozen rooftops over a roughly ten-block area " was staged by t…
In April 2020 Wine&Halva, a play by Turkish playwright and theatre researcher Deniz BaÅŸar, had a staged reading at the University of Regina. Art Babayants from Toronto Laboratory Thea…
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…
Dancer and choreographer of international reputation, David Bombana is required to bridge artistic, curatorial and administrative skills for his new role as Director of the Corps de Ballet o…
William Kentridge " a South African interdisciplinary artist and the founder of The Centre for the Less Good Idea " responds to Grzegorz Jarzyna and discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has a…
Relevant, engaging, creative, and action-inciting work is always being produced at The Anthropologists " a theater company dedicated to devising performances that ask questions and promote p…
Jagratha, a five-minute play in the Kathakali format, written and choreographed by Margi Vijayakumar, details the precautions and measures to be taken against COVID-19 Summary The stage is s…
Grades went in. No death threats. A student wrote: "I learned something, and I laughed. That's all I expect." There can be no higher compliment. I did three Zoom meetings today. You start ou…
The play imagines an encounter between composer, Benjamin Britten, and poet, WH Auden. Picturing a meeting between two of the greatest artists of the 20th Century " Benjamin Britten, the com…
STEM, that Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics curricula obsession at the expense of the arts, leaves our children as properly endangered species. Readers of Charles Dickens'sÃ…
Lockdown occasionally spawns some real delights. Like the surprise appearance of a strange creature from the most profound depths. One of these must be Andrew Scott's superb performance in S…
It's TRIV NIGHT! Some TV People we know have kept the community vibe going by organizing online trivia competitions. It's taken off. We've made it to the media! Our team is Purple Brain. I'm…
When Benito Vasquez, Marissa Castillo, and Jorge Diaz founded TEATRX in 2018, they never could have imagined what fate had in store for the Latinx theatre company two years later. The trio l…
Grzegorz Jarzyna " the head and artistic director of TR Warszawa (Poland)" responds to Boris Yukhananov and discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected his work, TR Warszawa, and the th…
Inside Look at Family Album Artistic and Financial Director, Stas Zhyrkov and Director, Matteo Spiazzi, give their take on their production of Family Album and its impact on our current …
The Korean theatre company ETS, which is an acronym for Eye To Soul, staged Charles Mee's Big Love (2001) at the Haneul Round Theatre in Seoul, Korea, in June 2019 for the ten-year anniversa…
This interview with Xuexi Li and Tianjiao Li was conducted by Xunnan Li. Both interviewees are part of The Clock God from the West production team, a play selected for the International Onli…
Red Polka Productions' English play Chitraa, based on Rabindranath Tagore's Chitrangada, went digital for the first time with the original cast on May 28th. "When we released the play we had…
Yesterday, I took a break from my sunny local park and turned a room in my house into the Finborough fringe theatre. You know the kind of thing: very small, very dark, very hot and airless, …
On Thursday, June 4th, Jasen Mphepo Little Theatre in Zimbabwe showcased the first of many shows as part of their way of responding and navigating the lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic. …
"The puppet says everything that needs to be said so that we are not affected. When we truly believe in them, they give us love, trust, and sincerity." This is the epigraph from the book Fai…
Boris Yukhananov " the Artistic Director of the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre, Moscow " discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the theatre community in Russia and the Stanislavsky El…
For generations, bamboo theatres have been a thread that ties together Hong Kong's present and past. Made of bamboo sticks and clad with metal sheets to protect them from the weather, they a…
The world has changed significantly not only in the last four months but more largely since the turn of the century. Within the decade, we will have celebrated the centennial of television, …
Adaptation became one of my "things" academically sometime in the early 2000s. I was and still am delighted with the versatility of this academic field and it's become one of my go-to tools,…
