Runt of the Litter: Disability in the Age of the Pandemic
There was a saying in the Eastern Bloc back in the days of the Soviet regime: “You might not want...
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On Screen and On Stage, Disability Continues to Be Depicted in Outdated, Cliched Ways
The #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements have forced Hollywood and other artists and filmmakers...
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“Slave Play”: Can a Subaltern Consent
In her 2011 book, Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality, Margot Weiss, an...
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The Comic Frame of Sławomir Mrożek: Or, How to Tell if You Live in a Totalitarian Country
On August 15, 2013, the Polish dramatist, writer, and cartoonist Sławomir Mrożek died at the age...
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The Wooster Group’s “A Pink Chair” – Can You Ever Return?
The Wooster Group’s newest production, A Pink Chair (In Place of a Fake Antique) was commissioned...
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The Context of Contemporary Polish Theatre: Spotlight on Poland
Today, we are launching The Spotlight on Poland. Here’s the context….. Following the fall of the...
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The Theatre Times: Why? Why Now?
TheTheatreTimes.com is a non-partisan, global portal for theatre news. With an expanding...
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Disability in Comic and Tragic Frames
The connection between humor and disability is perhaps one of the most challenging and...
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Mieczysław Weinberg’s Opera “The Passenger”: On Memory and Forgetting
“The Passenger” at New York’s Lincoln Center © Stephanie Berger Polish classical musicians and...
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How the Holocaust Shaped Theatre: Emerson Professor Describes Its Impact on Polish Directors
“In Jerzy Grotowski’s 1967 staging of Stanislaw Wyspianski’s 1904 play,...
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Escape From Circus: Review of Mabou Mines’s “Dollhouse”
During the ten years of its run, when asked what I thought of Mabou Mines’s Dollhouse, I’ve...
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How I Survived Socialism: A Self-help Guide For Worried Americans
“The regime was harsh, the system absurd but rules made up in Moscow were no match for the...
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