Ibsen, Our Contemporary
What gives this 19th-century Norwegian’s plays their lasting power? ‘Power’ is the operative word.
What gives this 19th-century Norwegian’s plays their lasting power? ‘Power’ is the operative word.
Conor McPherson, handed Bob Dylan’s complete song catalogue, no strings attached, brings it all back home.
Thornton Wilder’s 80-year-old play offers something more than comforting nostalgia in a troubled American moment.
There may be as many kinds of writers about theatre as there are kinds of theatre. Here’s a handy guide.
New plays from Jez Butterworth, James Graham, and Lucy Kirkwood throw its characters and their values into sharp relief and thrilling conflict.
Theatre is reflecting our world back at us. But are we feeling it?
Over 10 days of performance art, lines between performer and audience blurred, then disappeared altogether.
What a piece of work is ‘Hamlet,’ as sampled in London, New York, and Colorado.
A dispatch from this year’s record-breaking festival, where 3,000 shows competed for theatregoers’ attention.
In the digital post-truth era; theatre of the real doesn’t just dramatize change—in some case it embodies it.