The coronavirus pandemic has completely reconfigured society's world over. Health experts say the new normal, in most countries, which sees many cuddling with masks and observing social dist…
Writing is currently a challenge for many reasons " an important one being that we don't know which kind of coming world we are writing for. If I manage to reboot my academic writing again, …
Zoom became the tool-de-jour for work meetings and social interaction with family and friends " and its potential for creating Lockdown Theatre was immediately explored, using either Faceboo…
Troupes turn to telework in a bid to keep audiences entertained The performing arts are built on interactions between live audiences and artists " whether ballet dancers, circus performers, …
If any musical can attempt to live up to this title in these troubled times, it must be this show from Graeae, a theatre company whose mission is to champion the work of Deaf and disabled ar…
We are living, I have frequently been told, through weird times. Maybe. But do weird times necessarily require weird art? Do bad times provoke bad art? Well, one of the most unusual response…
This post is dedicated to theatre-makers everywhere in the world. In his book, Epidemics and Society, From the Black Death to the Present, Frank M. Snowden makes an important observation: "E…
The tribute will include readings from his collection of poems Duniya Sabki and a rehearsed reading of Machine During these times when we are witnessing the inhuman treatment of migrant work…
On April 3, Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) announced the cancellation of this year's edition of its annual World Theatre Festival Shizuoka, which was due to be held from April 25 to …
Improv artistes Balasree Viswanathan and Laxmi Priya talk about the creative spin they have given to their performances Balasree Viswanathan and Arjun Mehra, co-artistic director and artisti…
The frame lingered some seconds too long on Frances McDormand, playing Jocasta, just long enough to glimpse her listening mournfully, painfully, to Oscar Isaac, playing Oedipus. On a stage, …
In his wide-ranging, and widely read, survey of postwar British theatre, called State of the Nation, the Guardian critic Michael Billington sets out his stall: in the introduction t…
Dear white folks (and institutions) seeking to be true allies, Resist the urge to pat yourselves on the back. This process is never-ending. If the following makes you defensive … Good. To …
Michelle Memran is the documentarian behind The Rest I Make Up (2018), a touchingly candid portrait of Cuban-American playwright and director Maria Irene Fornes. A revolutionary figure in th…
Angella Emurwon is a playwright, theatre director and filmmaker. The name 'Emurwon' means seer, and Angella is already doing that in Ugandan theatre. I interviewed her to learn about her wor…
Imagine you have just experienced one of the most extraordinary performances you have ever seen in your life. You, along with the rest of the audience, are on your feet applauding enthusiast…
In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic which, among other industries, has adversely affected the theatre sector in South Africa and globally, POPArt, a cutting edge South African based experi…
Lloyd Lutara (LL) is a multi-form storyteller writing and producing theatre, film, fiction and television. By taking a single story and adapting it for different media, he is breaking …
The National Theatre's triumphant march through its archive of NT Live recordings continues this week with a glorious blaze of a show. Starring Gillian Anderson, Ben Foster and Vanessa Kirby…
The COVID-19 pandemic has closed theaters around the world, including New York's Broadway and London's West End, Buenos Aires' Calle Corrientes, and Gran VÃa in Madrid. The theater sector…
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought significant shifts in routines all over the world. With more people finding themselves adapting to a lifestyle they're less used to, the latent emotional di…
"Who was human before the war, remained so", says one of the actors in the beginning of the play Sedam dana kasnije (Seven Days Later), which ran in January at Sarajevo's Narodno pozoriÅ¡t…
Jonathan Pitches is a Professor of Theater and Performance at the University of Leeds. He is the Deputy Director of the Stanislavsky Research Centre and the author of three monographs: Scien…
This article is part of the Dramaturgs' Network's Invisible Diaries series. Slung Low is a company that is reactive to the "now." In my previous posts, I have written about their re…
This article is part of the Dramaturgs' Network's Invisible Diaries series. I am part German and part British; I am part academic and part dramaturg; I am part theatre and part oper…