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The Play Truth: How narratives and portrayal of women are changing at theatres near you

Story tellers are now breaking taboos and digging deeper to have important conversations about gender and what being a woman is all about.

'A great innovation': Verona Arena substitutes monumental sets with dynamic video

Distancing rules meant that stagehands moving sets had to be limited in the cramped backstage in the open-air Roman-era amphitheatre, setting in motion a reimagining of the 98th Verona Arena Opera Festival.

Tony Award-winning thespian André De Shields returns to Broadway in and as King Lear, and Hadestown

De Shields’ towering presence is somehow more captivating in the quiet beats — perhaps most strikingly when he carries the corpse of his daughter in his arms, unwavering, halfway across the stage.

Waiting for Godot: A guide to Samuel Beckett's classic avant-garde tragicomedy of our times

From its first performances in the 1950s, Waiting for Godot enjoyed a positive critical reception, and over the years became a celebrated avant-garde play and a popular cultural reference.

Tony Awards to air on 26 September for four hours instead of its usual three, following pandemic-hit Broadway season

Capping the evening will be the awarding of the three top awards: best play, best play revival and best musical.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, JJ Abrams, Maggie Q join forces to underline importance of resurrecting theatrical experience

Arnold Schwarzenegger, JJ Abrams, Maggie Q spoke on Wednesday about the importance of resurrecting the theatrical experience for moviegoers.

An Oral History of the COVID-19 Crisis: 'The pandemic has magnified pre-existing prejudices and problems'

This account is part of Firstpost’s Oral History Project of the COVID-19 Crisis in India. The Oral History Project aims to be an ongoing compendium of individual experiences of the pandemic, with a focus on one significant day in our respondents’ lives during this time.

New York's longest-running play, Perfect Crime, resumes performance after pandemic shutdown

Catherine Russell, 65, is the driving force behind Perfect Crime, a rollicking whodunit that has been on Big Apple billboards since 1987.

FirstAct: In '11:11', an experimental performance that explores virtual reality as a therapeutic aid

Captured on camera in a single take, 11:11 is a response to the growing disaffection induced by the pandemic in a year that has pushed us online with a vengeance.

FirstAct: Watch 11:11, a physical theatre performance on virtual reality therapy that devises new corporeal expression

Through '11:11', the creators aim at exploring how the VR ‘in-world' works in opposition to the actual world in which the subject is effectively rendered blind by their headset.