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Juan Mayorga began writing El jardín quemado (The Scorched Garden) in 1996, completing it the following year. Close to thirty years on, Mayorga directs it at Madrid’s Teatro de la Abadía. It’s the fourth of his plays he’s staged there since t...

When Florian Battermann founded the Komödie am Altstadtmarkt in Braunschweig in 2003 at the age of 30, it was then the most recent addition to the boulevard comedy theatre scene in Germany. The theatre was truly a family business: his wife ran the box office. Battermann’s mother and mother-in-law ran the business office, his father-in-law designed and built the sets, and his ...

On a cold Saturday afternoon this past winter, retired director Laura Jones drove me around the small town of Fort Collins, Colorado. Jones, who was the subject of a piece I wrote for TheTheatreTimes.com in 2024[1]Paul Shields, “Director Laura Jones’ Career-Long Exploration of Beckett Concl...

An Interview with Mr. Ivica Matičević, president of the Fellowship Miroslav Krleza Fund, literary historian, literary critic, comparatist, editor (Zagreb, Croatia)

Ivica Matičević (born 12 March 1966 in Slavonski Brod, Croatia) is a Croatian literary historian, literary critic, comparatist, and editor. He graduated in Comparative Lite...

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...