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The Awards The Back to Back Theatre company, the pioneer of renewal in Australian theatre and one of the companies best known around the world for making disability a tool of artistic inquiry, is the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of Biennale Teatro 2024 (15 - 30 June). The Anglo-German collective Gob Squad, spearhead for new ways of combining media and performance that puts the spectator at the centre, has been awarded the Silver Lion. The decision was made by the Board of...

The <em>souffleur</em> has all but vanished, except in Germany, where they sit in the front row – or even take to the stage. As actors are placed under huge pressure, does this really make drama more exciting?

Film crews treading the boards may be all the rage in Australia, but the movement that blurs the lines of film and stagecraft is not new.

This wrap of shows around Melbourne includes King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, MSO’s Season Opening Gala, Anything You Can Do, and Ballet Under the Stars.

This new showcase from the performance collective Gob Squad features an onstage performance alongside a live-stream feed from the streets of Berlin.

The acclaimed U.K./German art collective’s show runs this week at OZ Arts

Contemporary arts center OZ Arts Nashville announced it will present Kitchen: You've Never Had it So Good by Gob Squad, an acclaimed multimedia collective of ingenious artists from the U.K. and Germany, in its expansive warehouse from March 24-27.

All the worlds a screen? Theyre used to it The Belgian director Ivo van Hoves Broadway production of "West Side Story" uses video projections on stage, in New York, Feb. 19, 2020. Before lockdowns began, a screen onstage signified experiment, adventure, risk. Sara Krulwich/The New York Times. by Alexis Soloski (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- About a year ago, when such things were possible, a friend and I bought cheap, same-day tickets to a preview of “West Side Story,” directed by Belgian auteur Ivo v...

  >> Alexis Soloski, The New York Times  Published: 04 Feb 2021 04:48 PM BdST Updated: 04 Feb 2021 04:48 PM BdST The Belgian director Ivo van Hoves Broadway production of "West Side Story" uses video projections on stage, in New York, Feb 19, 2020. The New York Times About a year ago, when such things were possible, a friend and I bought cheap, same-day tickets to a preview of “West Side Story,” directed by Belgian auteur Ivo van Hove. Our assigned seats were in the second row of the or...

When San Diego theaters abruptly shut down March 12 due to the pandemic, nobody expected they would stay dark for the rest of the year. And yet, out of the darkness, local artists began producing hundreds of online productions, play readings, cabarets and concerts, audio-casts, podcasts, interviews and education programs to stay connected to their art and their audiences. For this year’s look back at the 2020 year in theater, I found it impossible to choose a top 10, since there’s no way to...