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Dramaturgy is all about being able to facilitate a line of communication between artists and audience.
The full version of the article Annie Jin Wang on Opera Dramaturgy is available on The …
Dedicated to the 40th Anniversary of World Rock Day and the 71st Anniversary of World Rock and Roll Day. Â Â April 13th and July 13th " are the two dates of annual holidays that are di…
George Bernard Shaw is the supreme example of old writing. Maddeningly verbose, eye-poppingly articulate and self-consciously progressive, his work is so Edwardian that any revival runs the …
Step into the opulent 1880s New York evoked by The Gilded Age, Julian Fellowes' Emmy-winning HBO Original drama. Now in its third season, which premiered in late June 2025 on HBO and Max, th…
Imagine Ibsen's A Doll's House, staged as a sort of salon game, in a real couple's home serving as a set for the classic drama of duty versus love. Fix+Foxy's innovative production, conceive…
In New York City, the window between May and June signals the arrival of Tony Awards season. Smaller venues often avoid launching new productions during this time, knowing that critics are u…
Juan Mayorga's Los yugoslavos [The Yugoslavs] is, to-date, the only one of the acclaimed Spanish playwright's plays to have opened in translation. First performed at Belgrade's Bitef Teatar …
The World Sinophone Drama Competition for Young Playwrights is the largest playwriting contest in the Chinese-speaking world. Open to playwrights aged 18 to 36, it accepts plays written in e…
Yu-Chia Wei is a Taiwanese playwright whose work has earned numerous accolades. Her two plays, A Fable for Now and Mama/Popstar, won the Taiwan Literature Award and Taipei Literature Awards,…
Let us always remember the pioneers. Although there is a fair amount of relatively mainstream queer theatre today (fueled in the popular imagination by RuPaul's Drag Race on BBC television),…
Only the truth, we are told, can set us free " but there are times in love when the New Testament Gospel of John is an inadequate guide. A good example is the situation that Terence Rattigan…
In honour of playwright Jovan Sterija Popović, Sterijino pozorje was held this year for the seventieth time. In the selection curated by theatrologist and theatre critic Ana Tasić, n…
An interview with Wichi, a theatre director and actor, Athens, Greece Wichi was born in Thessaloniki. They are a director and actor, an honors graduate of the Directing Department of the Dra…
Under the artistic direction of the étoile Eleonora Abbagnato, Rome Opera House (Teatro dell'Opera di Roma) continues its curatorial approach to dance by embracing contemporary creation in …
An Interview with Chantal Boiron, editor-in-chief for UBU Scenes d`Europe/European Stages, Paris, France. UBU European Stages is a bilingual (French/English) magazine created in 1996, UBU Sc…
There is a big screen hanging above the stage on which four faces in four individual frames are apparently chatting to each other as we walk in. At the same time two other persons are busyin…
For the first part of the interview go here. Â From the earliest musicals, one can trace the creators' desire to look for ideas for the story among literary works. There are more than a h…
'To be or not to be', that is a question with a completely new ring to it in Teatro La Plaza's production performed by eight actors and actresses with Down's syndrome and cognitive disabilit…
The time of frozen catharsis is now. But what kind of theatre refuses purification? Theatre performances and projects today often ignore the audience as a moral judge. However, this is almos…
This Guardian pick of the year 2025 recently closed at London's Almeida theatre, but it is definitely worth anthologizing for prosperity. I hope this also gives me the licence to write freel…
Introduction It seems that the mission of the father of arts, "theatre", as well as all forms of literature, was not always only to produce pleasure, describe life and its aesthetics, and re…
An Interview with Mr.Bajrus Mjaku " one of the most remarkable theatre character actors from Skopje, R. Macedonia. Bajrus Mjaku was born in KaÄanik, Kosovo in 1952. In the mid-1960s, he c…
Playwright, actor, director and novelist Davide Enia had his first success as a theatrical storyteller in 2002 with his one person play, Italy Brazil 3 to 2, which he wrote, performed and di…
Benedict Andrews' reinvention of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard at St. Ann's Warehouse raises the devastating question of our era: When change comes, what becomes of the world we're about to d…
Soviet nonconformist art was emerged in the 1950s when artists dared to transcend the official canon of Socialist realism which prescribed rigid themes, genres, and design. The reds and yell…
