Theatre in a Time of Genocide: Palestinian Imagination Under Fire
2 playwrights talk to theatremakers in the West Bank and Gaza, who are continuing their resistance to occupation with their art and their witness.
Category Archives: Global
How to Survive a Dictatorship, the Theatre Artist’s Way
Stories of resistance from perseverant 20th century theatremakers around the world, and how they walk with us today.
Islands of Disorder
Lessons from the Global South on fugitivity and world-making in the face of empire.
Foreign Aid Cuts Hit Close to Home for This NYC Theatre
Bond Street Theatre, which takes theatre into refugee camps and prisons overseas, has had programs cancelled—but they’re regrouping, fundraising, and even bringing some of their work home.
Going the Distance at Manila’s Virgin Labfest
Now in its 20th year, this gathering of Filipino and Filipino American theatremakers helps to bridge gaps of language and culture—and to offer a kind of mutual homecoming.
The View From Avignon’s Bridge
The venerable international festival’s 79th iteration lays out the welcome mat for first-time performers and audiences, and puts its first non-European language, Arabic, in the spotlight.
War Pivots and a Pinch of Snuff: Kontakt Highs in Poland
As seen at a recent festival, theatre from Ukraine, Latvia, Germany, and Poland can’t help but be shadowed by war and retrenchment in Eastern Europe, though there is still joy and art to fight for as well.
Willem Dafoe Adds Festival Programmer to His Résumé
The busy actor has stocked an International Theatre Festival at the Venice Biennale with heavy hitters—including the one that formed him, the Wooster Group.
La MaMa Umbria Announces 2025 Symposium
This year’s artists include Milo Rau, Simon McBurney, Dan Hurlin, Liesl Tommy, Stefanie Batten Bland, and Wesley Ruzibiza.
Lessons From Kosovo for Theatre in Times of Uncertainty
Theatre in Kosovo—state-sanctioned and safe during the Soviet era, scrappy in the war years—offers models both cautionary and instructive for U.S. theatres facing headwinds.
