Wherever it comes from, morality or the aesthetic, the anti-theatrical prejudice is a conceptual vanity, subject to or victimized by theatre, while going through every nerve-end to the dubio…
Theater Bremen is currently showing the world premiere production of Der Zauberer von Öz " Eine Fußballtragödie by Akin Emauel Åžipal. The play is about football player Mesut Ö…
Representation in the performing arts in the UK is in crisis. For years, voices have been warning of the lack of authentic working-class actors in TV and Theatre. Audition fees at the top dr…
The Dangdai Xiao Juchang Xiqu Jie (Contemporary Black Box Xiqu Festival), operated at Star Theatres, has been a significant engine for contemporary experimentation of Xiqu (Chinese tra…
Der Schimmelreiter (The Rider on the White Horse) is a novella by German writer Theodor Storm (1817-1888), which Storm completed just months before his death. It has been acknowledged as amo…
In October 2025, Battersea Arts Centre hosted Aşınma (Corrosion) " a multi-award-winning theatre work in Turkish by the innovative Turkish writer-director Åžahika Tekand and the este…
Two major productions of Richard IIIÂ are touring Italy in the present season, a sign perhaps that the dark side of the human psyche, which this notorious Shakespeare villain embodies, is …
The British directing star Robert Icke specializes in contemporary adaptations of classics. He writes and directs them, proudly insisting that they only deserve attention if they hold their …
Since August 2019, I have owned and run the chamber theatre, piccolo teatro Haventheater, in Bremerhaven. The theatre seats a total of 54; it was founded in 2011 by my predecessor, actor and…
Ihot Sinlay Cihek is a Taiwan-based Pangcah theatre artist whose work confronts the intersecting realities of Indigeneity, womanhood, and urban life. How Romantic: A Guide to Modern Pangcah …
Dimension Zero, the new sci-fi puppet musical from the Boxcutter Collective, arrives at HERE arts Center with all the ingredients for a wild downtown spectacle" extravagant puppets, scruffy …
The farcical premise of Rajiv Joseph's play Archduke"just opened at the Roundabout's Laura Pels Theatre"is that the young men who sparked World War I by assassinating the Archduke Franz Ferd…
With a depressingly vacuous, celebrity-circus Waiting for Godot sucking up so much oxygen on Broadway, it's a delight and relief to see Samuel Beckett produced at the Irish Arts Center by gi…
Something flitters among the green leaves of bramble and the brown leaves of a previous autumn. There is movement, there is sound " the hum of traffic and a labor of breathing. Hands are see…
Before the audience of the play 3sisters, with their eyes wide open, a music box, the girls on film, the Yugo-wave, the empty space, and the Chekhov of the future are embodied. The direction…
Thatcher, and the image of Thatcher's Britain, continues to cast a long shadow over contemporary culture. So it's hardly a surprise that the most audience-pleasing moment in playwright Jack …
I went to Caroline Guiela Nguyen's Lacrima at BAM with great eagerness and curiosity. This was a major new work by the only woman with serious clout in the French theater (she is artistic di…
In Romanian culture, a vital coming-of-age moment for every teenager is their eighteenth birthday, marking, almost physically, the starting point of adulthood. Luceafărul Theatre's Intern…
In 2023, Malaysian actor Michelle Yeoh won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance in Everything Everywhere All at Once. Some reactions praised her as "the first Asian actress" to achieve…
The Queen of Versailles. A New Musical will officially open on Broadway, at the St. James Theatre on November 9th, after several weeks of previews. The show is based on the life stories of D…
Sein oder nicht sein is a play by Nick Whitby (b.1963), premiered on Broadway in 2008, and first presented in Germany at Deutsches Theater Berlin in 2009. It is based on the 1942 film of the…
Weird scenes inside the farmhouse; weird scenes in Northern Ireland; weird scenes of the 1980s. Meghan Tyler's Crocodile Fever at the Arcola Theatre is a breath-takingly eccentric and wonder…
This six-hour production of Hamlet took Shakespeare's play as the starting and end point, in the German version by Heiner Müller, with additional material from Müller's Hamletmaschine, fur…
The Flowers of Srebrenica should be impossible to stage. Irish academic Aidan Hehir's book, a narrative account of visiting Srebrenica (now a Memorial Centre), where the UN left thousands of…
The Royal Court, Britain's premiere new writing venue, celebrates its platinum anniversary next year " yes, it's been 70 years since 1956's Look Back in Anger. In anticipation, the theatre i…