2,031 stories from The Theatre Times
"Theatrical space as a place of possibilities and (im) possibilities is revealed in the work of leading UK-Belgian company Reckless Sleepers. In the absence of a conventional narrative, mean…
Review: Dance Nation, directed by Imara Savage. State Theatre Company South Australia and Belvoir for the Adelaide Festival. Dance is at the heart of playwright Clare Barron's Dance Nation, …
Guillaume Clayssen, a fellow playwright, interviewed David Lescot on his newest piece in June 2016 and was translated for FrenchCulture.org by Jessica Cohen. Dough, a choral text with a fran…
First published in 2009, Didier Eribon's memoir Returning to Reims follows the French sociologist's return from cosmopolitan Paris to his small hometown in the wake of his father's death and…
Featuring a libretto based on a 1924 essay by Leon Trotsky about Lenin and fragments of a play, Octavia, attributed to Seneca about the Roman emperor Nero, this is a thrilling new opera stag…
Shakespeare lived his life in plague-time. He was born in April 1564, a few months before an outbreak of bubonic plague swept across England and killed a quarter of the people in his h…
COVID-19's impacts on society are unprecedented and nobody can say precisely when we will return to normal public life. Experts predict that COVID-19 will cut US$12 billion out of the entert…
While it can never really supplant the vibrancy and vividness of live, in-the-flesh theatre, the showcasing of performing arts in the digital space has expectedly received a fillip over the …
It's only been a week since London's West End went dark and theatres closed all over the UK, but it feels like months. Really. Like many others, I'm in self-isolation, stressed by working on…
Like many of us during the COVID-19 quarantine, I am nostalgic for the times when we could go to the theater and socialize freely. But at the same time I am thrilled by the response of the a…
With everyone in lockdown, observing physical if not social distancing, a story about isolation can have a particular resonance. And there are few places in the UK that are as isolated as so…
Samia Jaheen's performance was part of the 10th Hakawy International Arts Festival for Children, which took place between the 2nd and 8th of March. At the premises of the Tahrir Cultural Cen…
Of all the unexpected things I think I might be able to imagine, one I could never have imagined for a minute was Alexander Zeldovich's production of Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis at the Stani…
The history of puppetry is full of supernatural bodies on stage that dramatically or subtextually represent their quest of coming to life and gaining autonomy from their masters. A puppet's …
Sudhanva Deshpande's book, Halla Bol remembers the legendary theatremaker and activist through a series of events that recall his life's worth. A book tour with a difference is currently mak…
One of the major figures in Polish experimental theatre, WÅ‚odzimierz Staniewski, is the founder of the world-famous company, "Gardzienice." In January 2018, Tomasz WiÅ›niewski conduct…
Mark Bly is an American dramaturg, editor, and lecturer. He was the chair of the MFA Playwriting Program at the Yale School of Drama from 1992-2004 while being the associate artistic directo…
Your story. Our story. Their story. Just imagine: you're a political refugee, and, having experienced horrible things that happened to your family, you finally, after a lot of trouble, arriv…
Launcher 5's honest rendition of narrative and characters is its winning card, which drew an increasingly large number of audiences to the theater during the eight months it was staged in Te…
Having opened in May 1955, the Teatro Stabile in Turin is one of the most important artistic institutions in Italy. Since 1977, its main productions have been officially hosted at the Teatro…
Tracy Letts's Bug may be fourteen years old, but this tale of a couple convinced that they are suffering an insect infestation feels infinitely more topical now than when it was first seen i…
"The theatre is a device for empathy " its job is to create better people." Those are the words of Simon Stephens, one of Britain's foremost, contemporary dramatists. His plays include Heise…
Life cannot exist without art. That is something that is hard to get into people's heads, because they say 'I have to eat. I have to pay the rent. I have to be warm in the Winter…
For ensemble pieces in theatre, where actors never once leave the stage, what becomes all-important are the transitions between scenes " how the action, settings and mood segue in transformi…
No longer is there a "safe place" on the Canadian political spectrum; to be moderate is to be a mere bystander to fascism and anarchy, while to cling to either ideological extreme is to enga…
