Category Archives: Global

China’s Theatre Bubble

Most stage works don’t attract mass audiences or enjoy long runs—but there can be strength in the shadows.

Japan and Korea have embraced and nurtured Western-style musicals. Can China be far behind?

Theatre companies small and large seek new inspirations down disparate paths—and some audiences are following.

China’s vibrant seaport city has a surfeit of theatres; good thing there’s a new generation eager to fill them.

The online festival featured performances from around the world, but shone a particular light on puppetry’s local roots.

Intimate venues, short plays, small ticket prices, big risks—a Madrid movement spreads to other Spanish-speaking cities.

Could making theatre with young Syrian refugees in Beirut give them a sense of belonging?

The Shanghai International Arts Festival showed off new forms, hybrids—and new entrepreneurial enthusiasm.

A new staging of Poland’s national epic was the centerpiece of a festival reflecting the West’s tense, shadowy new age.

Daughter becomes mother in the Irish company’s 20th-anniversary staging of Martin McDonagh’s landmark play, which now tours the U.S.