As the eighth India by the Nile festival approaches, let us celebrate the history of one of the most significant annual events and see what to expect this year. It was in 2012 that I first h…
Princess Boy Wonder, performed by George Fowler (aka Hugo Grrrl), Directed by Lori Leigh, BATS Theatre online live stream event, 20 March 2020. In a sad and desperate week in which shows wer…
A Review on Iranian Adaptation of Coriolanus in Tehran A free adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy Coriolanus was on stage at Tehran Independent Theater in August 2019 for a month. Th…
Ever since his Oscar-nominated Hollywood debut as Lord Katsumoto in 2003's The Last Samurai, Ken Watanabe has been the best-known Japanese actor in the world. Along with other memorable s…
Once-radical theatre companies are increasingly celebrating anniversaries, as if to say, hey, look, we're still here. Now it's the turn of Frantic Assembly to mark its 25th anniversary with …
When someone speaks about US and Hungarian theatrical relationships, you cannot miss his name. Philip Arnoult, head of the Center for International Theatre Development (CITD) says that he sp…
'Kenyan History has been scored and underscored by music. From when it was interwoven with every aspect of life, across all the nations and communities that are now counted as Kenyan, in pre…
The African theatre scene in the 1960s and the 70s was mainly peopled by men. But there were women like Efua Sutherland, Ama Ataa Aido and Rose Mbowa that stood shoulder to shoulder with the…
undercurrents Festival Director Patrick Gauthier and Associate Director Brit Johnston have discussed openly their curatorial strategy for this year, one which stems from an urgent problem: m…
Hair the first Rock Musical opened in 1967 for six weeks at the New York Shakespeare Festival Theatre and moved to the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway the following year wh…
Wondering what may draw young people to theatre? It's a theatre about them, with them and specially designed for them. This is what The Arrival, performed on 22 February 2020 at the National…
In Italy, in the hard times due to the national sanitary alert for COVID-19, everyday life is completely destroyed. The number of deaths is constantly increasing, and anguish is the dominant…
Two productions, both under musical direction of Valery Gergiev, were put on at Mariinsky Theatre on consecutive days in February 2020: Claude Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande and Rodion Shc…
Ghalia's Miles brilliantly brings the crude harsh reality of the Middle East to life. It pierces deep down into the soul, with razor-sharp effectiveness, twisting once buried within to ensur…
Darkie which features Katlego Letsholonyane (who has just recently started appearing on the local SABC sitcom Skeem Saam) is a brave and stylistically refreshing production in that not only …
When Milo Rau arrives in a city, he attracts the attention of theater journalists, professionals, and theatergoers who follow the latest trends. This is definitely the case with his recent v…
Since 2000, Esther Baker's Synergy Theatre Project has worked with prisoners, ex-offenders and young people at risk of offending to produce powerful dramas about some of the most fraught soc…
Designers have revealed renderings of their project that is to grace the Urals. American studio wHY Architecture is to build a new opera theater in Perm, a Russian city in the Ural mountains…
This conversation with Christa Sommerer focuses on some aspects of the gigantic artwork that Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau have been building together since 1992. After a brief synthesis o…
The Greek philosopher Plato, summarized what is to be in love as "a serious mental illness." Both a "rapture" yet also "pure madness." Love is the Pandora's box of human existence and both h…
Sabaya Makhadet El-Kohl (The Young Girls of the Kohl Pillow), a play that explores the lives and constraints of women in southern Egypt, is playing in Cairo until Monday. At the small El-Tal…
The winter holiday season generally brings a Charles Dickens' play to theatres. At the New Repertory A Christmas Carol, the usual piece has been replaced with Lionel Bart's musical …
Adapted by Turkey's State Opera and Ballet from the story of the ancient city, Göbeklitepe opera will mesmerize audiences with unique elements from decor to costumes. "Göbeklitepe the Oper…
Lucy Kirkwood's drama, now appearing at Boston's SpeakEasy Stage, deals with climate change. Its three characters, now elderly, were formerly nuclear scientists.…
As entertainment venues remain shut due to the COVID-19 epidemic, China's live performance industry has moved online in hopes of garnering wider audiences virtually. On Saturday, four popula…