Some legendary shows are rarely revived, rarely seen in London: one of these is surely Ntozake Shange’s celebrated choreopoem for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainb…
The musical Les Misérables, written by composer Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil (libretto and lyrics), premiered in 1980 at the Palais des Sports in Paris but failed to generate …
Okay, it’s a very familiar problem: how do you create drama out of an artist’s life? Most great artists — writers, painters or composers — spend most of their time, practically and m…
“What if?” is a really provocative question. What if Greek tragedy is really about mental illness? What if Clytemnestra’s killing of her husband Agamemnon is not vengeance, but psychos…
Romeo Castelucci – primarily renowned for the singularity of his aesthetic vision developed over the last four decades – is not usually described as a political theatre-maker. Even when …
Theater Poetenpack was founded in 1998 by Andreas Hueck, who has continued as its artistic manager to this day. The theatre is part of the scene of privately owned, independent or free theat…
I started my Edinburgh Fringe 2026 lying down. On a white bunk bed – a middle height one of a triple set – at a far end of what looked like a long and narrow rugged steel portacabin. It …
For Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, home to the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera, and the New York City Ballet, redefining the modern stage is a delicate dance: honoring…
With more than 4,200 shows making up this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, twenty-four performances can hardly stand in for the whole thing. What follows is a subjective itinerary through…
Even with solid training in xiqu, or Chinese opera, Yu-Hsuan Chou tried to leave traditions behind when she first entered contemporary theatre. “I was there to learn how to write musicals.…
An interview with Laouni Bellil, a gentle and inspiring Algerian storyteller and theatre maker. Laouni Bellil (Mascara, Algeria) is an emerging talented – theatre actor, storyteller and di…
Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) is recognized internationally as the founder of anthroposophy, which, in turn, defines itself as a spiritual – philosophical worldview, not a religion. Steiner…
An Interview with deeply inspiring Tanja Tzarovska – musician, singer (for film/theatre projects), performer (Prespa/Resen, R. N. Macedonia/ London, UK) Tanja Tzarovska is one of Macedon…
On 11 and 12 July, in Spoleto (Italy), there was the European premiere of a significant appointment with dance history and, in particular, with American late modern and postmodern dance and …
The Chinese musical The Story of the Stone was staged at the 600-seat ARKO (Arts Council Korea) Arts Theater in Seoul, Korea, on July 10 and 11, 2026. This musical, directed by Gao Ruijia, w…
Arab Canadian theatre is frequently discussed through the language of war, displacement, exile, and trauma. Although such themes have produced some of the field’s most significant works, t…
In terms of linguistics, Low German (Plattdeutsch) is a language of its own, not a dialect, and not derived from High German. Geographically, it is found in the German federal states of Brem…
Iraqi theatre did not remain in Iraq. Over the past several decades, Iraqi playwrights, actors, directors, and artists have carried their theatre with them to new homes, including Canada. Wr…
Is there a crisis in British new writing? The comparative paucity of new work in mainstream theatre is bad news for some UK playwrights, but good news for those whose back catalogues are gra…
Dedicated to the 45th anniversary of the world premiere of the musical “Cats” The concept of the “mega-musical” is associated with the name of Andrew Lloyd Webber—the world’s …
(Read the first part of the interview here.) Chen: In your plays, or the ways you answer certain questions, I feel that you’re almost idiosyncratic about time. You’re always noting ho…
(Read the second part of the interview here.) Outside the bright, modern meeting room on the 10th floor of the Taipei Performing Arts Center, Koh Choon Eiow (高俊耀) was sunk in an oddly-…
That day, I aimed to view a production of The Tempest through a difficult flood. Prepared to pique an interest in the larger "theater is life" argument, I got my notebook ready. The hour…
As a dance artist, you are, at a young age, bestowed with the supposed gift to make people feel. You are told that this is a matter of profound and sacred importance to the state of the worl…
Jonathan Spector’s new play Birthright—just opened at MCC Theater in a sharp, superbly acted production directed by Teddy Bergman—is way more absorbing than you might expect from an in…