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…
The Terrence McNally/Stephen Flaherty/Lynn Ahrens musical Ragtime is not the subtlest theater contraption. Premiered on Broadway in 1998, it's a big, galumphing machine with very big things …
In All Right. Good Night., German docu-theater artist Helgard Haug turns loss into a language. The work interlaces two stories of disappearance " the mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH37…
Absurd as it may seem, Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, a demanding play about existential despair and cosmic futility first performed in 1953, has just opened on Broadway for the fifth t…
When I was four years old, I asked my parents for piano lessons. We always had a piano in the house. There was a lot of big band music played on the stereo with the occasional Broadway cast …
The small district of Schnoor in the northern German city of Bremen, consisting of some 100 houses, has had a long history. First mentioned in the 13th century, the oldest parts of extant bu…
Broken Britain has a big problem with youth. About a million of those aged 16 to 24 are NEETs (not in education, employment or training), some 13 per cent of this age group. Many working-cla…
"By the term theatre we do not only mean its expressive linguistic side, but also the cultural, social, and organisational aspect of the phenomenon… among many people, theatrical plays, in…
The Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theater (CIFET) has long been a vital platform for the boundary-pushing theatrical voices in the Arab world, and beyond. Recently, debates h…
Perhaps it's an indicator of the feebleness of new writing after the pandemic that so many of the current highly hyped plays are 1990s and 2000s revivals " success in the past is, it is hope…
With minimal décor and symbolism in every gesture, The Mutt " an adaptation of Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov at IATI Theater " blends experimental staging with unvarnished performance…
Collective interview with Amy Sze (Theatre maker and arts producer, London, UK-Hong Kong), Mia Efremova/Mia Volt (playwright, Å tip, R.N.Macedonia), and Tree Kwok (theatre director/dramatu…
Interview with Sandra Gribovska Ilievska, theatre actress, Bitola, R. Macedonia Sandra Gribovska Ilievska (Bitola, 1992) is a Macedonian actress and a member of the National Theater Bitola s…
The International Shakespeare Festival in GdaÅ„sk is not the festival of masterpieces and it never has been its aim. However, if you are looking for interesting, innovative and updated vo…
At German theatres, some assistant directors are employed for the duration of a production, from first rehearsals to opening night, or until the last performance. In any one season, such ass…
An Interview with Mr. Guy Coolen, art director, producer, manager, Antwerp, Belgium/Rotterdam, Netherlands. Interviewer Ivanka Apostolova Baskar.  Guy Coolen (1966) is one of Europe's…
An Interview with Ana Ristoska Trpenoska, a playwright, dramaturg, Vienna/Skopje, Austria/R.N. Macedonia. Interviewer Ivanka Apostolova Baskar.  Ana Ristoska Trpenoska (1984, Skopje) …
In a world where the rule is to make huge efforts to attain an "effortless, relaxed" look, the new show at the recently renovated Delacorte Theatre in Central Park " Twelfth Night " is a tru…
An Interview with wonderful talented actresses Jovana Miladinova, Skopje, R.N. Macedonia. Interviewer Ivanka Apostolova Baskar  Jovana Mialdinova is born in Skopje. She is third year stu…
This year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe was as sprawling and invigorating as ever, and expectedly sharp in some of its preoccupations: questions of identity, memory, political urgency, and the…
Writer-actor Alan Bissett's When Billy met Alasdair imagines what happened when Alasdair Gray (1934-2019 ) and Billy Connolly (1942-) met in 1981 at a book launch of Lanark, Gray's celebrate…
Interview with theatre director Tamara Stojanoska, Skopje/Prilep, R.N. Macedonia. Interviewer Ivanka Apostolova Baskar  Tamara Stojanoska (theatre director) was born year 1997, in Pri…
We are an avant-garde theatre group, and after our successful performance of The History Boys by Alan Bennett in 2017, we turned to a wild and daring experiment: a production based on Dostoe…