Sunday, March 29, 2026
Luciana Acuña is one of the most exciting figures in contemporary dance. Her energy lit up La edad media/ The Middle Ages, the 2022 Covid-19 lockdown film she co-directed with her partner…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:27PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 26, 2026
For his newest play, La última noche con mi hermano (The Last Night With My Brother), Alfredo Sanzol has taken inspiration from a friend telling him about the final night she spent with h…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 06:04AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 24, 2026
What does it mean to be honest with your partner? This is the premise that governs Salomé Lelouch's entertaining two-hander, Mejor no decirlo/You Shouldn't Have Said So which presents a cou…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:57AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 4, 2026
There were two key themes running through this year's Teatro a Mil, the Chilean capital's long-running theatre and performing arts festival. "Yes, Theatre Matters" may have been the festival…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 28, 2025
The power of education as a tool for emancipation and democratic thinking has been the subject of a few productions of late in Spanish theatre. To Xavier Bobés and Alberto Conejero's El mar…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:21PM[SHARE]The House of Bernarda Alba has engendered no shortage of spin-offs " dance and film adaptations like those of Eleo Pomare, Mats Ek and Mario Camus, as well works that pick up the piece's cha…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:12PM[SHARE]La Cubana have been making theatre for over 45 years " stagings that have reimagined popular genres while contemplating the dynamics of putting on a show from the perspectives of those worki…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:08PM[SHARE]Friday, December 26, 2025
El dÃa del Watusi (The Day of the Watusi) gets a second outing at the Teatre Lliure. First seen in the 2023/4 season at the Lliure's Grà cia venue, it now plays in the larger Montjuï…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:48PM[SHARE]How do we learn to forgive, especially in the aftermath of a massacre that has no rational explanation? This is the subject of Diego Garrido Sanz's Violencia (Violence), his adaptation of Fr…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:42PM[SHARE]There is no shortage of plays on the subject of mid-life crisis, from Alan Charles' Midlife Crisis to Tracy Letts' Linda Vista. Writer-director Pablo Remón has added to the mix with his t…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:41PM[SHARE]Monday, August 18, 2025
There are shows that may, on the surface, feel wafer thin, shows where nothing much seems to happen, only as the conversations unravel, they reveal characters whose experiences give the prod…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:51AM[SHARE]Monday, August 11, 2025
In the opening page of the 2025 Tampere Theatre Festival brochure, the artistic team (Hilkka-Liisa Iivanainen, Taija Helminen, Tanjalotta Räikkä and executive director Hanna Rosendahl) ref…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 6, 2025
The 2025 Grec festival, the first under the new directorship of Leticia MartÃn Ruiz, opened on 26 June and ran through to 4 August. 97 productions attracted 127,724 spectators for the 202…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:03PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 5, 2025
The first new production of Mark Rosenblatt's Olivier-award-winning Giant since its London premiere in September 2024 opened in Barcelona on 5 July as part of this year's Grec festival. Acto…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:20AM[SHARE]Monday, February 3, 2025
Peter Sellars isn't afraid of taking risks. It's part of his approach to making work, as his 2024 production of Beatrice di Tenda showed. For this new staging of Jean-Philippe Rameau's Casto…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:05AM[SHARE]Monday, December 23, 2024
David Trueba's films have often had a theatrical dimension. La silla de Fernando/ Fernando's Chair, co-directed with Luis Alegre (2006), revolved a conversation with the legendary actor-writ…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:52AM[SHARE]How to begin to approach a history of the Spanish Civil War for the stage? An ambitious prospect and one that Andrés Lima has set himself drawing on the team with whom he realised Shock 1. …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:45AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 22, 2024
Gaetano Donizetti's Maria Stuarda, first produced at Milan's Teatro alla Scala in 1835, like the Schiller play it draws on, demands two outstanding performers. It rises or falls on the quali…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:45AM[SHARE]Monday, November 11, 2024
Àlex Rigola first staged David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross at Barcelona's Teatre Lliure twenty-one years ago. It was an epic, fast-moving staging realised in a gyrating fishbowl set, cha…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:58AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 10, 2024
Peruvian director Chela De Ferrari of Lima's Teatro La Plaza, reconfigured Hamlet " seen at this year's Edinburgh International Festival "Â through the eyes of actors with Down's Syndrome.…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 15, 2024
Tampere is Finland's third largest city" parallels are often drawn with Manchester, in part because of its shared industrial history, and also because of the frequency of rain! It is perhaps…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:47PM[SHARE]In my humble view, Tiago Rodrigues is one of the most important theatre makers at work today. His is a theatre that asks profound questions about what we value and why, and what we are p…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:44PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 16, 2024
La Zaranda are one of Spain's best kept theatrical secrets. Not because they are not well known or respected in Spain " they have a cult reputation in the Spanish-speaking world with a l…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 11, 2024
Nuria Espert turns 89 today. Hers has been an extraordinary career and it's not over yet. She has just spent over 13 months on tour with La isla del aire/The island of the air, a new play ad…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:00AM[SHARE]Friday, April 12, 2024
Juan Mayorga might have been a crime writer in another life, he loves to set up complex, menacing conceits that explore behaviour on the fringes of criminality. What constitutes right? How f…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:21AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Seeing a play you much admired five years ago for a third time isn't always sensible. Will it be as good as you remember it? I saw JaurÃa, Jordi Casanovas' verbatim play based on the case…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:07AM[SHARE]Monday, March 25, 2024
There are a number of firsts in the new Teatro Real production triple bill that brings together Francis Poulenc's La Voix Humaine (1959), adapted from Jean Cocteau's 1930 play, and Arnold Sc…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:36AM[SHARE]The 2023/2024 season has proved the year of Bernarda Albas. Lorca's 1936 drama was completed only a few months before his death, as Spain was edging closer to civic conflict. Its razor-sharp…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:33AM[SHARE]Friday, March 22, 2024
Susanne Kennedy doesn't do things by half. When she creates a world, it has its own logic, its own rules, its own ethos. It's not a world of participation but one where the audience are invi…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:34PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Vincenzo Bellini's penultimate opera, Beatrice di Tenda, rests between two more frequently performed works, Norma (1831) and I puritani (1835) " the latter his eleventh and final opera…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:23AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 15, 2024
Alberto Conejero's trajectory as a playwright has been rooted in telling the stories that have lain in the margins, side-lined or erased. He has a remarkable capacity to address that which o…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:57AM[SHARE] 
