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The Antipodes Dorfman Theatre, until 23 November Sydney & the Old Girl Park Theatre, until 30 November The Antipodes, by the acclaimed dramatist Annie Baker, is set in a Hollywood [...]

The biopic. What an awful genre. What an awful name for a genre. Awful because it sounds like medicine. Awful because it's too easy to confuse the actor for the [...]

Byline: Ajay Kamalakaran Giants of Hindi literature such as Munshi Premchand, Rajendra Yadav and Banarasidas Chaturvedi were enamoured of the works of the Russian playwright and short-story writer India gets [...]

Byline: Brian Johnson Moving on from its longtime home in Minneapolis' Seward neighborhood, the Playwrights' Center is planning a new $8 million facility that will double the arts organization's current [...]

Byline: Vinson Cunningham One for All Anna Deavere Smith's 'Twilight: Los Angeles' is as urgent as ever. tifIllustration by Olivia FieldsSmith's one-woman play synthesizes a chorus of sensibilities into a [...]

Syrian theatre artist Riad Ismat died earlier this month after contracting COVID-19 in Chicago, where he was part of Northwestern's 'Scholars at Risk' program. He was 73: Ismat was a [...]

Adil Ibrahim Muhammed Khair, sometimes called the 'Sudanese philosopher of theatre,' is particularly known for turning toxic masculinity into sharp-edged humor: Lemya Shammat Adil Ibrahim Muhammed Khair — born in [...]

Acclaimed Egyptian playwright Lenin El-Ramly, known for his biting political satires, died yesterday. He was 75: According to Ahram Online , El-Ramly's wife — the writer Fatma El Maadoul — [...]

Bernie Sanders--Democratic presidential candidate and independent U.S. senator representing Vermont Haitham bin Tariq--Current sultan of Oman Joaquin Phoenix--U.S. actor, producer, and animal activist Joe Biden--Former U.S. vice president and senator [...]

The Nobel Prize for Literature keeps their archives sealed for 50 years. The Complete Review reports that the 1969 archives are now in the public domain: The 1969 Nobel — [...]

Two plays by Syrian playwright Ahmad Meree, in Arabicwith Englishsurtitles, made the 'Now Toronto' list of 15 theatre shows to see in 2020 : The double bill of 'Adrenaline' and [...]

From our special section, edited and translated by Chihab El Khachab, on Edwar al-Kharrat and his library: By Mohamed Shoair Originally published on Medinaportal.com, 12 August 2019. Photo courtesy al-Kharrat [...]

Byline: Michael Schulman Mirroring tifIllustration by Jo�o Fazenda22tifIllustration by Jo�o FazendaJeremy O. Harris and Kehinde Wiley22 One rainy night in midtown, the playwright Jeremy O. Harris and the artist Kehinde [...]

The Royal Court Theatre announced today that Palestinian playwright Dalia Taha is the recipient of the Elyse Dodgson Commission for the Middle East: This commission is a new award, with [...]

At a recent Boston University conference titled ' The Role of the University in the Crisis of Forced Displacement, 'Nicole Rizzo directed a staged reading of Syrian playwright-filmmaker Liwaa Yazji's [...]

Celebrated Iraqi playwright and actor Yusuf al-Ani (1927-2016) is at the center of the latest issue of the Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World , which has — [...]

Among the 2019 residents of the University of Iowa's prestigious International Writing Program are two authors from the Maghreb: Moroccan poet and novelist Soukaina Habiballah and Algerian novelist and dramatist [...]

Byline: Michael Schulman Fall Preview History Revamped, Music Legends, Cyrano tifIllustration by Max Dalton20 The thirty-year-old playwright Jeremy O. Harris cannonballed into the downtown theatre scene last season, with his [...]

The 'In/for Translation' series — set to run Tuesdays in August — focuses on work by women that we recommend either in or for English translation. Here, work by five [...]

Movies All Is True Kenneth Branagh does Shakespeare, again. This time, he's not adapting one of the plays but, rather-fully armed with a false nose and other props-taking on the [...]

Byline: Benjamin Lindsay Who doesn't want to be impersonated by a drag queen? At the opening night of (https://www.vulture.com/2019/04/theater-review-can-tootsie-work-when-its-not-1982.html) Tootsie on Broadway at the Marquis Theatre, (https://www.vulture.com/2018/11/theater-a-slightly-tamed-torch-song-returns-to-broadway.html) Torch Song Trilogy [...]

Byline: Benjamin Lindsay If (https://www.vulture.com/2019/03/hillary-clinton-gloria-steinem-play-off-broadway.html) avid (https://www.vulture.com/2017/07/hillary-clinton-receives-standing-ovation-at-broadways-oslo.html) theatergoer (https://www.vulture.com/2017/06/audience-cheers-hillary-clinton-at-broadways-come-from-away.html) Hillary Clinton were to find herself in the John Golden Theatre this Broadway season, she may not find the kind of [...]

Byline: Trupti Rami Lin-‍Manuel Miranda, the (https://www.vulture.com/2018/12/lin-manuel-miranda-mary-poppins-returns-hamilton-puerto-rico.html) actor, composer, lyricist, playwright, and television producer, is seemingly a one-man show. But, surprisingly, as one of the executive producers on (https://www.vulture.com/2019/04/fosse-verdon-fx-review.html) FX's [...]

Byline: Morgan Jerkins Claudia Rankine is one of today's foremost writers on racism and the (https://www.vulture.com/2016/04/claudia-rankine-keynote-apw.html) white imagination. Citizen: An American Lyric, a hybrid of poetry and essay, catapulted her [...]

Byline: Matt Zoller Seitz Picture, if you will, a legendary and seemingly indestructible intellectual property created in 1959 by a fellow named Rod Serling. An eloquent Jewish playwright raised in [...]

Byline: Jessica Hopper,Whitten Sabbatini Award-winning poet, playwright, scholar, and sociologist Dr. Eve Ewing has devoted her work to her concern with Chicago's past and present. She is the author, most [...]

Byline: Katie Rothstein,Jackson McHenry (https://www.vulture.com/2015/10/theater-review-the-humans.html) The Humans, a breakaway hit of a play that traveled from Chicago to Broadway (https://www.vulture.com/2016/11/humans-announces-end-date-and-national-tour.html) and onward, is getting its inevitable silver-screen adaptation. Per Deadline, [...]

Byline: Mathew Silver It might sound strange, even unlikely, but a civilized discussion about callout culture broke out this Tuesday, during a writers' panel at PEN America's annual town-hall meeting. [...]

Byline: Sarah Spellings Turns out, even climate scientists and award-winning playwrights battle (https://www.thecut.com/2017/10/ask-a-boss-how-to-get-over-impostor-syndrome.html) impostor syndrome. Those chronic feelings of dread, anxiety, and simply not belonging usually plague us right when [...]

Byline: E. Alex Jung In the winter of 2015, the playwright Jeremy O. Harris decided to write (https://www.vulture.com/2018/12/slave-play-jeremy-harris-review.html) Slave Play as a bit of a dare. He was at a [...]

Byline: Sara Holdren In a (https://www.whatshouldwedo.com/blog/jeremy-o-harris/) recent interview, the prodigiously hip young playwright Jeremy O. Harris-who can currently be found everywhere from (https://www.vogue.com/article/jeremy-o-harris-daddy-play) Vogue and (https://www.gq.com/story/introducing-jeremy-o-harris-the-theater-worlds-vital-new-voice-sponsor-content) GQ to the (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/28/theater/jeremy-o-harris-slave-play.html) [...]

Byline: Peter Hapak,Sara Holdren In late 2018, when Heidi Schreck's play (https://www.vulture.com/2018/09/theater-review-what-the-constitution-means-to-me.html) What the Constitution Means to Me was produced at New York Theatre Workshop, New York's drama critic, Sara [...]

Byline: Lidija Haas Something in the Water The hallucinatory realism of Rachel Ingalls. tifIllustration by Chloe CushmanIn Ingalls's vision of intimacy, you're not safe until everybody else is dead.61 A [...]

Byline: Vanita Salisbury Events to check out this weekend, February 28 to March 3. 1. Salute the outsiders. Nicknamed the 'laureate of American lowlife' in 1986 by Time magazine, Charles [...]

Byline: Cathy HorynAdventures in history have long motivated fashion designers, like artists and playwrights, but the difference between inspiration and mere reference is whether the trip says something about the [...]

Byline: David EdelsteinSteven Soderbergh's made-for-Netflix movie (https://www.vulture.com/2019/01/high-flying-bird-trailer-steven-soderbergh-netflix-movie.html) High Flying Bird (from a script by the playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney) takes place in Manhattan during a monthslong NBA lockout with no [...]

For nearly six months our subsidised playhouses, notably the National Theatre, have been dark. What have we missed? Not much. Some would say nothing at all. And this has come [...]

The world's greatest playwright ought to be dynamite at the movies. But it's notoriously hard to turn a profit from a Shakespearean adaptation because film-goers want to be entertained, not [...]

INVERCARGILL STREET TALK Queens Park, 13-16 February Local and international performers flock to Invercargill for the Southland Buskers Festival. There'll be jugglers and tricksters aplenty, including Bayley Graham, who infuses [...]