Modern World Theatre

One of the best theatrical entertainments on Broadway this season is the one-woman show Carrie Fisher presents at Studio 54. Based on her biographical book, this is a thr

Dec 2, 2009 - Barbara Hudgins

Use these quotes and jokes to remember the humor of life and theatre

Nov 26, 2009 - Kerry Chafin

These quotes from artists such as Oscar Wilde, Orsen Welles, Tennessee Williams, and Bertolt Brecht can inspire thought and motivation in every theatre artist.

Nov 22, 2009 - Kerry Chafin

Katie Mitchell has always stretched the boundaries in her theatre productions but in this case the audience's patience is painfully over-stretched.

Nov 13, 2009 - Nina Saville

Girl of the Soil is a new Thai play organized by Thai contemporary theatre groups as part of an exposition of Thai drama at the 2009 Bangkok Theatre Festival.

Nov 3, 2009 - Brian Jungwiwattanaporn

Shelly Garrett's live stage play, Beauty Shop, has been entertaining and inspiring sell-out audiences across the United States since 1989.

Oct 18, 2009 - Rhonda Campbell

For more than 50 years the historic State Theatre in New Brunswick, New Jersey has been bringing audiences memorably entertaining live stage performances by top artists.

Oct 18, 2009 - Rhonda Campbell

'The 39 Steps' is not a play to be sniffed at; it is a winner of the 2007 Laurence Olivier Award as well as two 2008 Tony Awards.

Oct 16, 2009 - Alexandra Szydlowska

Solo female mime artists are rare. Yayoi Hirano, now living in Vancouver, BC, is one of the finest mimes and mask makers that Japan has produced.

Oct 14, 2009 - Catherine Owen

These quotes and thoughts from famous actors, directors, and playwrights are sure to inspire the theater enthusiast.

Oct 14, 2009 - Terah Talley

Now modern sound effects can easily be found on CD or on the web, but sometimes a more old-fashioned manual approach can be more effective and more fun.

Sep 30, 2009 - David Chadderton

California State University Long Beach's California Repertory Company needed a new home for their plays, and The Queen Mary agreed to be their host for this year.

Sep 26, 2009 - Megan Clancy

The Ricardo Rojas Cultural Centre in Buenos Aires is the place to go when wanting to engage in quality arts and culture, but without spending too much money.

Sep 14, 2009 - Tracey Chandler

This is truly thrilling theatre - a powerhouse production that is unmissable. Book now as the play ends its run at The Tricycle 20th September.

Sep 11, 2009 - Nina Saville

A tri-lingual play that engages and surprises the audience, Water-Time is a charming and challenging production.

Sep 11, 2009 - Brian Jungwiwattanaporn

Theatrical light design is a relatively new art form with a rich history full of innovation and discovery.

Sep 9, 2009 - Kerry Chafin

Toronto's dance and theatre scenes are rich in diversity, and the city's blended African, Caribbean and Canadian cultural scene is thriving for Fall 2009 & Winter 2010.

Sep 8, 2009 - Sarah B. Hood

Creating a relatively complex theatre sound plot with the free facilities in Mac application QLab is extremely easy.

Sep 3, 2009 - David Chadderton

Fire, candles, and gas all contributed in making theatrical light design into what it is today, but there is one particular evolutionary step that set it on its path.

Sep 2, 2009 - Kerry Chafin

Performance artist Fred Garbo has only one fear in life: sharp objects.

Sep 2, 2009 - Brenda Neugent

Nana Dakin's new play combines dance and drama to produce a thought provoking discussion on migration and trafficking.

Aug 24, 2009 - Brian Jungwiwattanaporn

Actors, acrobats and projected images add a thrilling dimension to JM Barrie's legendary tale. Look up and fly with Peter and the Darling family to Never Land!

Aug 21, 2009 - Nina Saville

Since the first Fringe Festival took place in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1947, stages around the world have hosted amateur and semi-professional productions of all kinds.

Jul 31, 2009 - Susan Huebert

Edinburgh's Fringe Festival offers visitors to the Scottish capital an unparalleled and consequently bewildering range of events, so how do you decide what to see?

Jul 26, 2009 - David Chadderton

Since 1991, the Contemporary American Theater Festival (CATF) has produced 68 new American plays, including 25 world premieres, and commissioned 7 new plays.

Jul 22, 2009 - Frances Ponick

The play shows two tramps waiting endlessly for someone who never arrives. The 1953 drama was voted the most significant play of the century, but what is it all about?

Jul 14, 2009 - Azharul Islam

The Fringe Festival takes over downtown Toronto, featuring $10 ticket prices and 150 different shows performed by independent theatre companies from around the world.

Jul 7, 2009 - Allison Anthony

Priestley's post First World War play holds the audience spellbound revealing in a leap in time the unfullfilled hopes and aspirations of an upper class family.

Jul 1, 2009 - Nina Saville

Theaters depend on audience turn out. Use press releases, public service announcements, arts councils, group sales and newsletters to publicize effectively.

Jun 29, 2009 - Elyse Levesque

The Vagina Monologues has always been outrageous, a daring statement by women confronting themselves and the cultural binds they are in for ages.

Jun 25, 2009 - Marivir Montebon

Playwright Edward Albee has revisited his seminal one-act work and added layers of complexity by making it the second act of a full length drama.

Jun 16, 2009 - Michael Waterson

Jill Kennedy makes her directing debut this spring with Nilo Cruz's Pulitzer Prize winning play Anna in the Tropics at Holy Heart Theatre, St. John`s.

May 25, 2009 - Meg Coles

Shakespeare and the classics, plus a nine-hour work by the renowned Robert Lepage are among the best bets for Toronto theatres for the summer 2009 season.

May 22, 2009 - Sarah B. Hood

It is the unwavering conviction of certainty that makes Bronx NY native John Patrick Shanley's play Doubt a Parable such a powerful compelling piece of drama.

May 11, 2009 - Tien Providence

A new play tries to shed light on the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

May 4, 2009 - Y F Chin

Interiors is a devised piece by Vanishing Point, who return to the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre after their successful sell-out run of Subway.

May 3, 2009 - Saskia Fischer

Chicago's Michael Aaron Lindner will tell you - there's more to local theater than just downtown Chi-Town. World-class talent is a few miles to the north of the Loop.

Apr 27, 2009 - Kelly Konrad

Stretch this summer's entertainment dollars by spending them on tickets for inexpensive local college and university theater and dance productions.

Apr 22, 2009 - Judy Reagan

An outline of the upcoming theatre season at the Citadel in Edmonton, Alberta.

Mar 26, 2009 - Andrea Beca

Marsha Norman is a playwright and novelist. In 1983, she won the Pulitzer Prize for her play Night, Mother. She currently teaches playwrighting at Julliard.

Mar 15, 2009 - Carissa A. Boak

Jose Rivera was born in Puerto Rico and his plays have been produced nationally, internationally, translated into seven languages, and won several awards.

Mar 15, 2009 - Carissa A. Boak

Deep Cut is a powerful and moving play examining the case of 18-year-old Private Cheryl James one of four young soldiers who died at Deepcut Barracks between 1995 - 2002

Mar 13, 2009 - Nina Saville

Apollo is a bold journey into Epic Theater. Portland Center Stage premieres "Liberation" the third part of Keystone and Critical Mass Performance Group's new play.

Mar 3, 2009 - Brandon Custy

Puppets are often linked with childhood pleasures, but the Javanese wayang kulit is a sophisticated form of puppetry, using silhouettes for characters to come to life.

Feb 25, 2009 - Cheryn Tan

The prototype Hitchcock chase movie has been re-imagined as a British screwball comedy on the Broadway stage with four actors playing all the parts.

Feb 23, 2009 - Paul Pelkonen

Stephen Sachs' Miss Julie: Freedom Summer, presents a compelling adaptation about race, class and power set in the volatile civil rights era of the 1960's.

Feb 14, 2009 - Pamella Bailey

Playwright Andrew Moodie sparks a dialogue about race, politics and gun violence with his latest work Toronto the Good, based on recent events in the city of Toronto.

Feb 9, 2009 - Pamella Bailey

Just 15 minutes from Midtown Manhattan is Medieval Times, a show that transports you to Medieval Spain where Kings ruled the land, and Knights protected the innocent.

Jan 31, 2009 - Jaclyn Suhy

Every February, the University of Alberta's Drama Department produces the New Works Festival, which fosters the development of plays written by students.

Jan 19, 2009 - Andrea Beca

While the West End supplies a steady stream of crowd pleasing shows, the London Fringe offers a plethora of affordable and accessible choices across the city.

Jan 12, 2009 - Jonathon Collis