Theatre
How to Taste, Smell and Touch a Piece of Music with Your Skin
I was sceptical until I was blindfolded, led around a room and dragged across the floor as part of an immersive concert.
What I Learned About My Father from Reading His Secret Police Files
My father, a Romanian theatre director, was considered a threat to the communist regime of his time.
Meet the Man Putting MDMA Therapy On Stage
In new play Give Me Your Love, the artistic director of an experimental theatre company is showing what the drug can do for veterans suffering PTSD.
Meet the Director Bringing Homoerotic Theatre to a Censorship State
Stanley Kubrick's film was banned in Singapore until 2011. Now a new stage play is sticking two-fingers up at the censors.
Experimental Operas Might Make the Genre Cool Again
'Hopscotch,' a new experimental opera in Los Angeles, bends every convention of what you thought an "opera" should be—and that's exactly why millennials like it.
This Canadian Jail Rehabilitates Violent Offenders Using Prison Theater
"Just that first time they get the applause is quite profound. It's the first time they've been acknowledged in a positive way."
Stemming the Tide of Cultural Amnesia: An Interview with Legendary New York Performance Artist, Penny Arcade
We talked to the one-woman show about five decades of performing, her oral history project Lower East Side Biographies and the need to offer young people a queer, punk-rock, alternative to the mainstream.
First Hollywood, Now Theatre Land Is Recycling the Stories of Our Teenage Years
It looks like we're about to get musical remakes of Mean Girls, Clueless and The OC. It's a lazy, cynical cash-grab, but we're just as much to blame as those behind the shows.
Michael White Is the Most Famous Person You’ve Never Heard of
From Monty Python to Kate Moss, the impresario has discovered and hung out with everyone you ever thought was important.
The Explosive Sonics of Divinity with Ragnar Kjartansson
The Icelandic artist's latest production is a theatre piece without actors.
Real Life War Stories Aren't Very Heartwarming
Transcripts from interviews with Rwandan child soldiers and ex-IDF veterans.