The Theatre Times

‘People say that Jeppe drinks, but no one asks why Jeppe drinks’. This saying in the Danish vernacular, coming from the 18th century Dano-Norwegian comedy classic by Ludvig Holberg Jeppe on the Hill, has been a starting point for Christian Lollike’s award-winning adaptation, co-written with dramaturg Anders Thrue Djurslev. Originally mounted at Aarhus Theatre in 2025...

Timing is everything: James Graham’s new political history play, The Standard of Living, aptly opens on the very same day that UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham delivers his first, and highly emotional, conference speech to the Labour Party Conference. Just as Burnham is widely seen as inspiring the nation with his vision of a better country, so the playwright tells the...

There are at least two ways for an international arts festival to be provincial. The first is obvious: isolation, lack of money, lack of access, lack of connection to the international artistic circuit. The second is more interesting. It begins when all those problems have apparently been solved. The money is there. The stars arrive. The venues fill. An institution gains acce...

Return of the Buffalo – Tatanka Owe Akupi

On September 18, I made my way down to the National Museum of the American Indian at Bowling Green Park In lower Manhattan to begin an unforgettable journey following a herd of life-size buffalo puppets throughout the streets of lower Manhattan, in celebration of the symbolic return of the American buffalo which had be...

It has been a long-established tradition for many theatres in Germany to place their seasons and the selection of productions for that season under a general heading. For Staatstheater Oldenburg, for example, the heading or motto for 2026/27 is Art and Democracy. Katja Wolff’s production of Cabaret was a major commercial success for the Staatstheater Oldenbu...