Hanane Hajj Ali, ‘Jogging’ for Survival in Beirut
The Lebanese playwright/performer, who receives a major international award next week, talks about her work, where it comes from, and what it means in this fraught time.
Global
Theatre in Belarus: We Will Never Be the Same
Even the country’s apolitical state theatres are joining the countrywide protest against the power grab by the Putin-backed dictator Lukashenko.
‘Visiting Mr. Green’ in India
How a cross-cultural collaboration took shape over video call, then in person, affirming universal truths about both human experience and theatre practice.
‘Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin’ to Stream Live as Benefit for U.S. Arts Orgs
Proceeds from the musical event, streamed from Florence, Italy, will go 13 theatres and institutions Felder has called home.
Not the Same Old Song and Dance
A Nairobi initiative shows what African artists can learn from American musical theatre, and vice versa.
All Kenya’s a Stage: Shakespeare in Africa
When Shakespeare Youth Festival LA taught drama to young people in Nairobi, the learning went in all directions.
Devising German Democracy
Berlin’s Gorki Theater is at the forefront of an urgent international dialogue about diversity, immigration, and human rights.
Norwegian Wood
A hefty new Ibsen biography gives us a deeply difficult man in full.
Paderewski Was a Player, and Here Come the Plays
A century after his heyday, a Polish pianist and statesman is suddenly a hot stage property.
Viennese Theatre: Sturm und Drang, and Signs of Change
Leadership turnover at both of the city’s biggest theatres comes after, but certainly won’t end, a period of intense controversy and scrutiny.