It’s Sunrise in Cuba. Will the Light Reach the Stage?
With the long-awaited normalization of U.S./Cuba relations, theatre artists may be uniquely poised to make the most of the new climate of exchange.
Category Archives: Global
Chilean Theatre: Robust Engagement With History as It’s Lived
Far from detached or academic, the work on offer at the Santiago a Mil festival showed theatremakers in the thick of politics, race and culture.
Sowing Theatrical Seeds Across the U.S./Mexico Border
Stateside companies form collaborations with theatres based in Mexico, and vice versa, creating a fertile dynamic for art and change.
Cross-Border Collaborations: A Selective Sampling
Some companies that have made U.S./Mexico theatrical exchanges central to their work.
Pièces de résistance in Budapest, With an Emphasis on the Resistance
Political corruption bleeds into private lives as boundaries are breached in performances at Hungary’s dunaPart3 showcase. (Part 2 of 2)
Hungarian Theatre and Its Government Inspectors
In the face of the country’s continuing rightward drift, independent theatres show their mettle at Budapest’s dunaPart3 festival. (Part 1 of 2)
Bringing Foreign Companies to the U.S., One Visa Application at a Time
As producers at LaMama learned with their triple ‘Tempest’ series, arranging for foreign artists to perform on U.S. soil can be a stormy process.
In London, a Mix of Old and New, Often on the Same Stage
A new history play set in the future holds its own alongside classics, as well as new works by Stoppard and Hare and a pair of ace musical revivals.
‘An American in Paris,’ Back From an Out-of-Town Tryout in—Where Else?—Paris
How a Gershwin classic went from the concert hall to the cinema, and from Paris’s Théâtre du Châtelet to Broadway.
Bill Pullman Plays Othello as a Stranger in a Strange Land (Norway)
Language and culture, not race, are the faultlines in a new adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy by Norwegian director Stein Winge.
