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.
Category Archives: Global
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.
Connecting Russian Refugees Via Theatre—and a SpaceBridge
Through the stories of young Russian refugee children, theatremaker Irina Kruzhilina aims to promote compassion among mistrustful Americans, and create some friendships along the way.
Divine Comedy Festival: Joy and Despair, Head-Scratching and Mind-Blowing
This last dispatch from the 2024 gathering checks in with some Americans who’ve felt both inspired and challenged by their Polish counterparts.
Sex, Politics, Guarded Optimism: A Report From Kraków’s Divine Comedy
Theatre in Poland inevitably intersects with politics, and not only because it relies on state support.
Our Man in Kraków: Dispatches From Divine Comedy
This correspondent returned eagerly to a place where theatre still matters in a troubled world, even if it can’t quite make sense of it.
‘Cabemos todos’: Teatristas Without Borders at L.A.’s Encuentro
The Latino Theater Company’s border-defying Encuentro, the fourth of its kind, gathered hundreds of Latine artists for productions, partnerships, and dialogues in multiple languages.
