Festival

Ben Brooker at the Festival Theatre and Dunstan Playhouse. Wudjang: Not the Past Bangarra Dance Theatre and Sydney Theatre Company

For the second time since the outbreak of the Corona pandemic, the Theatertreffen festival has fallen victim to an extended

I was very fortunate to attend nearly all the shows at this year’s forty-ninth Venice Theatre Biennale (2-11 July 2021),

The Festival de Almada took place in July, smack in the middle of the fourth wave of the pandemic in

Edinburgh has an “after the Lord Mayor’s show” feel to it this year except there hasn’t even been a Lord

Jeremy Malies at the Brighton Fringe   I once sat with a friend leafing through the Brighton Fringe brochure (a

Jeremy Malies at the Brighton Fringe   Having decided to put himself on stage in The Lady in the Van,

Jeremy Malies at the Brighton Fringe   Michael Caine once said that the Sixties only happened to about a hundred

Ben Brooker at the Adelaide Festival Living in Adelaide as I do, it can be easy to forget that there

Margaret Rose in Venice at the Biennale di Venezia After a full lockdown in Milan from February to May of

Jeremy Malies at the Brighton Festival. Rhum and Clay Theatre Company have adapted Orson Welles’s 1938 The War of the

Malcolm Page at the Adelaide Festival The Adelaide Festival ran from 28 February until 15th March this year [2020] and

Ben Brooker at the Adelaide Festival While completing The Magic Flute in 1791, Mozart was commissioned by an anonymous intermediary

The ninth edition [2019] of the annual festival at the Teatrul Naţional Cluj-Napoca, Romania, is entitled ‘Together’. Works by Argentinian

Former Moscow critic-correspondent John Freedman, who has contributed articles to both Plays International and Plays International & Europe, was a

Claudia Woolgar in the Netherlands at the Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival The Edinburgh Festival dominates the European summer cultural scene

The thirty-sixth Festival of Almada was a joy-filled, festive community event — as it was in the beginning back in

Elisabeth Kelvin in Vienna at the Wienerwochen Festival: Romeo Castellucci’s Le Metope del Partenone Romeo Castellucci’s second contribution to the

Jeremy Malies in Edinburgh at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Coming out of my first play at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe,

Ludovico Lucchesi Palli in Austria at the Raimundspiele Gutenstein Since 1993, the annual summer Raimundspiele Gutenstein festival has been dedicated

Jeremy Malies in Brighton   In her director notes for the Brighton Festival, Malian composer Rokia Traoré reflects that it

Robert Schneider in Kentucky This was eclectic even by Humana standards. There was a topical play about sexual assault and

Margaret Leask in Sydney Billed as “an epic new Australian story about love, refuge and reconciliation”, Counting and Cracking by

Malcolm Page at the Adelaide Festival The plethora of arts festivals around the world are still loosely modelled on what

Jeremy Malies at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe My twelfth trip to Edinburgh for this magazine and the schedule is as

Jeremy Malies in Brighton As part of the Brighton Festival, the Brighthelm Centre hosted Palmyra by Bertrand Lesca and Nasi

Mohammad Reza Aliakbari in Tehran Government encounters artists: Fadjr International Theatre Festival.   Fadjr International Theatre Festival is an event