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Ngozi Anyanwu's The Monsters is a poignant and muscular two-hander about a Black brother and sister, estranged for 16 years, who reconcile over intensive training in MMA fighting. It's a swe…
By a fortuitous coincidence, a new theatre-work The Chair and The Cello " which features an armchair manufactured by a Swedish homewares corporation " premiered two days before that same cor…
Balding men are often precious about their hair. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was no exception. First in Spain, and later during his exile in France following General Franco's victory in the Sp…
Today, in Geneva, there are tentative peace talks between Ukraine and Russia; today, in London, there is a powerful play about the ongoing war. Oddly enough, it is fringe venues, the Finboro…
Basra is shaped by louder forces such as oil, politics, and the constant negotiation of visible and invisible censorship. Against these forces, theatre appears fragile. And yet, it speaks. N…
Terence Rattigan is a posh playwright whose work encapsulates the emotional restraint of the 1950s, and who was overtaken by the Angry Young Men. Right? Wrong! Although this sketch of his ca…
In late January and early February, Filippo Timi's Hamlet² played to full houses at the 500-seater auditorium of Milan's Franco Parenti theatre. One of the finest actors in contemporary I…
Anticipation and intrigue flood the room" a room which both is and is not the club. I and around 120 of the most stylish people I have ever seen have been herded into taped off sections of t…
Somewhat on the fringes of the Poland-Romania Cultural Season, the 2025 Between.PomiÄ™dzy Festival follows the pattern of bilateral events, by bridging the cultural worlds of these two co…
In January, the NYC Under the Radar Festival presented some of the most innovative and thought-provoking work on the contemporary stage. This year's edition, the festival's largest to date, …
Some shows have great moments, but somehow just don't work " the whole is less than the sum of its parts. This is my feeling about Frantic Assembly's 30th anniversary show, Lost Atoms, which…
For American audiences, the musical The Devil Wears Prada, anticipated to premiere on Broadway in 2026, will become the sixth musical theatre creation featuring the music by Sir Elton John, …
The "Screen / Stage" program was created as a space for shared viewing, discussion, and reflection on digital forms of contemporary theatre. Positioned at the intersection of live performanc…
For this production of Shakespeare's play, Oldenburgisches Staatstheateer used the 2007 translation by theatre studies professor, dramatist and translator Jens Roselt, who is a graduate of t…
Neapolitan poet and dramatist Enzo Moscato passed away in 2024 at the age of 75. Together with Annibale Ruccello and Manilio Santanelli, he came to fame in the 1980s as one of the leading ex…
A shimmering Andes mountain range made of light and weave. The sound of rattling bells. A brown-skinned man dressed in a colourful poncho, walks through the mountains, arriving at the stage …
At the risk of sounding smug, let me say: I have been yowling, since the early days of the internet, to anyone who would listen, about the dangers of relinquishing our personal data and priv…
There were two key themes running through this year's Teatro a Mil, the Chilean capital's long-running theatre and performing arts festival. "Yes, Theatre Matters" may have been the festival…
A Place of Safety, A Journey in the Central Mediterranean, produced by the Kepler-452 Company played at the Angela Melato Studio, Piccolo Theatre, from 6 to 20 December. Founded in Bologna i…
In the opening scene of Puana, a musical play written and directed by Professor Tammy Haili'Åpua Baker, a curious young man sifts through a trunk of memorabilia in his family home. As he …
Before the Storm is set in a rather dilapidated dressing room where an elderly actor waits to go onstage for his last performance in August Strindberg's Storm. As he waits, he reflects on hi…
The morning of the day I saw Narcissister's spellbinding and stunningly original Voyage Into Infinity I had been working my day job at a bagel shop. "There's no flow!" I overheard one of the…
Many, especially prestigious, new productions of Chekhov's The Seagull in the UK and USA commission new translations or versions of the play. For example, in 1985, for his West End productio…
Wet Mess is a captivating performer with a playfully defined aesthetic. Their checkerboard face and giant phallic objects (somewhat reminiscent of the sprawling shapes of Yayoi Kusama) were …
Encounters between artists and practitioners are invariably profound experiences, where knowledge is exchanged in real time as a lived practice. Such meetings allow one to gain a holistic pe…
