Friday, June 26, 2026
Seats have long been sold out for this production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, which brings iconic actor Kenneth Branagh back to the RSC (Royal Shakespeare Company) after a thirty-year hi…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:51AM[SHARE]This year’s theatre Biennale (7 to 21 June), with Willem Dafoe at the helm, has the intriguing title, Alter Native. In fact, in the program, the director and his advisory team have include…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:48AM[SHARE]This year’s theatre Biennale (7 to 21 June), with Willem Dafoe at the helm, has the intriguing title, Alter Native. In fact, in the program, the director and his advisory team have include…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:45AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 24, 2026
This year’s theatre Biennale (7 to 21 June), with Willem Dafoe at the helm, has the intriguing title, Alter Native. In fact, in the program, the director and his advisory team have include…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:43AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 27, 2026
Annie Baker’s Circle Mirror Transformation is currently enjoying a highly acclaimed tour to major Italian theatres. The play made its debut in an Off-Broadway production in 2009, after whi…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:21PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 23, 2026
Milan’s international festival, FOG, continues with productions from Italy and many parts of the globe. In late March I caught Frankenstein (History of Hate), a production by the much-accl…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:22AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 22, 2026
In March, FOG – Milan’s annual performing arts festival – hosted Handle with Care, a production by Ontroerend Goed, the well-known performance-group from Ghent in Belgium. Ontroerend G…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:22AM[SHARE]Friday, March 13, 2026
FOG, Milan's performing arts festival, is back with some rare treats for theatregoers keen to discover the best in cutting-edge work on international circuits, as well as emerging artists, w…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:29PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 11, 2026
On the opening night of Miracle in Milan at the Piccolo Teatro Strehler, the excitement of the audience, flocking into the 968-seater auditorium, was tangible. Seventy-five years after the e…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:43AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 17, 2026
In late January and early February, Filippo Timi's Hamlet² played to full houses at the 500-seater auditorium of Milan's Franco Parenti theatre. One of the finest actors in contemporary I…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, February 6, 2026
Neapolitan poet and dramatist Enzo Moscato passed away in 2024 at the age of 75. Together with Annibale Ruccello and Manilio Santanelli, he came to fame in the 1980s as one of the leading ex…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 3, 2026
A Place of Safety, A Journey in the Central Mediterranean, produced by the Kepler-452 Company played at the Angela Melato Studio, Piccolo Theatre, from 6 to 20 December. Founded in Bologna i…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:55AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 27, 2026
Before the Storm is set in a rather dilapidated dressing room where an elderly actor waits to go onstage for his last performance in August Strindberg's Storm. As he waits, he reflects on hi…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:38AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 10, 2025
In late November, Emma Dante brought her latest show, L'Angelo del focolare (The Angel of the Hearth) to Milan's Piccolo Teatro. Over the last thirty years, this Sicilian writer and di…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 23, 2025
Two major productions of Richard IIIÂ are touring Italy in the present season, a sign perhaps that the dark side of the human psyche, which this notorious Shakespeare villain embodies, is …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:56PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Writer-actor Alan Bissett's When Billy met Alasdair imagines what happened when Alasdair Gray (1934-2019 ) and Billy Connolly (1942-) met in 1981 at a book launch of Lanark, Gray's celebrate…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 19, 2025
At the Edinburgh Fringe, the solo show, A Poem and a Mistake, is playing for the entire month of August at the iconic Assembly Rooms. I was curious to see how contemporary American playwrigh…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:04AM[SHARE]Works and Days the latest production of the FC Bergman collective, played at the Lyceum Theatre as part of The Edinburgh International Festival from 7 to 10 August. The show includes stunnin…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:04AM[SHARE]Out of the many venues at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Summerhall Arts is one that shines for its programme of innovative theatre, cabaret, dance or music. In 2019 the Bristol-based compan…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:04AM[SHARE]Summerhall, one of Edinburgh's busiest venues, known for its innovative, cutting-edge programme, has had a tough time over the last year. The premises have been sold, making its future as an…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:04AM[SHARE]Monday, August 18, 2025
The Edinburgh International Festival this year, welcomes several international trailblazers like FC Bergman and William Kentridge, alongside a cluster of new political plays about censorship…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:21AM[SHARE]As I read the title of Jonny Woo's latest show, Suburbia, I wondered how this celebrated performer, cabaret and legendary drag artist, who has lived most of their life in London and New York…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:20AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 14, 2025
Playing at the Scottish Storytelling Centre during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Cassandra, written and performed by Ailsa Dixon. This solo show, a compelling mix of music and spoken word, …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:26AM[SHARE]Here at the Edinburgh Fringe, as well as Gary McNair's A Gambler's Guide to Dying, I caught the world première of Karis Kelly's Consumed. The play won the prestigious Women's Prize for Play…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:24AM[SHARE]For this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Traverse Theatre has, as usual, put together a line-up of Scottish plays and others from the rest of the UK, Ireland and around the world. As t…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 13, 2025
The expression 'Athens of the North', the title of the play in the present review, conjures up an Edinburgh in the Enlightenment period, a time when classical culture was much valued, 18th c…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:59AM[SHARE]'Dare to Discover' is the leitmotiv of the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe running from 1st to 25th August. In the introduction to 384-page programme, Tony Lankester, the recently appointed Chief Exec…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 8, 2025
Playwright, actor, director and novelist Davide Enia had his first success as a theatrical storyteller in 2002 with his one person play, Italy Brazil 3 to 2, which he wrote, performed and di…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 16, 2025
At Milan's Franco Parenti theatre, Shards of Chaotic Memory in Multicoloured Ink (Schegge di memoria disordinata a inchiostro policromo) runs from 20 March to 13 April. This new play by Gian…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:34PM[SHARE]Monday, March 10, 2025
In February I caught Antonio Syxty's staging of Romeo e Giulietta (Romeo and Juliet) at Milan's Leonardo Theatre in a production by Manifatture Teatrali Milanesi. Syxty's interpretatio…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Rarely have I spent such an intense ninety minutes watching a show, as I did the other evening at Milan's Franco Parenti theatre. From start to finish French dramatist Nicolas Bedos's Le voy…
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