The Theatre Times

In his biography of Federico García Lorca, Ian Gibson observes that the writer’s assassination took place on the moonless night of the 18th August — a fact that acquires particula...

Spirit and the Dust is a play by American dramatist Noah Haidle. The world premiere of the play, in its translation into German by Barbara Christ, took place on 27th February 2026 at Deutsches Theater Berlin, directed by Anna Bergmann. She also directed the German language premiere of Haidle’s Birthday Candles (2022, also at Deutsches Theater), translated by...

American women of a certain vintage can be sorted into haves and have-nots based on possession of a single commodity: an American Girl doll. Just whisper the name Samantha Parkington to an elder millennial and you’ll see her disassociate, withdrawing into happy childhood memories, returning to her earliest feelings of aggravated envy, or a destabilizing combination of both. T...

Rocks and rolling, in a most literal sense, is probably the closest it gets to describing the visual idiom of Peeping Tom’s 2025 offering Chroniques. The Belgian dance company, established by Gabriela Carizzo and Franck Chartier describes its approach as taking inspiration from ‘hyperrealist settings’. So for example, their first trilogy, made between 2002-2007 start...

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 which it has had many productions in America and elsewhere. After nearly two decades, it has reached Italy and in late April I caught this Pulitzer Prize-winning play, at Milan’s Picco...