Egypt’s Theatre Rebels
Facing censorship and worse in post-revolution Cairo, theatremakers resist and persist.
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Everything’s Different, Nothing’s Changed: ‘Company’ With a Female Bobbie
By flipping a few genders, Marianne Elliott’s new London revival turns Sondheim and Furth’s classic into a meditation on modern relationships.
Small World: The Actor’s Lot Across the Atlantic
How does the thespian’s life in Paris, London, Edinburgh compare to that of U.S. actors? For better and worse, we’re in the same boat.
Poland Takes a Right Turn, but Theatremakers Aren’t Taking It Lying Down
In speaking truth to power, audacious young directors at a Warsaw new-works showcase conjured bracing theatrical power of their own.
Robert Lepage and Matías Umpierrez: The Language of Theatre
Two interdisciplinary artists, paired for a Rolex mentorship, had a cross-generational exchange that spanned the globe and many cultures and languages.
True West Africa
In Senegal and Cote d’Ivoire, theatre persists despite declining government support and lingering questions about who it’s for.
Hungarian Theatre, After the Crackdown
The nation’s still-questing independent theatres don’t face censorship amid the ascendant right-wing climate—just economic isolation.
Top Girls: British and Irish Theatres and the Women Who Lead Them
The gender-parity tide may finally be turning in Britain and Ireland, but there’s still work to be done.
Politics, Playmaking Collide at the Edinburgh Fringe
A dispatch from this year’s record-breaking festival, where 3,000 shows competed for theatregoers’ attention.
‘Seedfolks’ Seeds Future Partnerships at ASSITEJ World Congress
Children’s Theatre Company took a signature work to the gathering in South Africa.