Laughing in London, When We’re Not Dreading or Dreaming
A few farces aside, current plays in the Old Smoke offer no escape from a disturbing world.
Category Archives: Global
As the Climate Change Threat Grows, So Does a Theatrical Response
What started as a North American short-play project around last year’s Paris talks blossomed into an ongoing worldwide effort.
Middle East Solos: Out of Context, Creating a New One
What did 4 female-led works at New York Live Arts’ Live Ideas Festival have to say to us or to each other—or are those even the right questions?
In Uganda, Using the Arts to Heal
A group of American artists travel to a nation affected by war, to help Ugandans tell their stories using music, dance, and drama.
Molto Malta: An American Director on Mediterranean Time
A cryptic British play takes the stage in Malta.
BADA Names Stephen Unwin Dean and Director
Unwin will start his post at the drama school in London this September.
Lev Dodin Plants Chekhov’s ‘Cherry Orchard’ in the Eternal Present
The master director from St. Petersburg takes some liberties with the playwright’s final work, but the result is somehow all the more Chekhovian.
Wrocław’s Theatre Tribe at Poland’s Dialog Festival
An American playwright gets a presumption-smashing crash course in European theatre at Poland’s Dialog festival.
Beyond Nouveau Cirque, Circus Artists Meld Acrobatics and Spectacle in New Ways
Both Acrobuffos and Cirque Mechanics are making ambitious shows at the edges of their form, and they’re not just for kids.
Thaddeus Phillips: Shape-Shifter on a Liquid Stage
The protean auteur makes a kind of puppet theatre in which his own intense, mercurial presence is the central object being manipulated.
