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Between Art and Science: A Conversation with Roald Hoffmann
Roald Hoffmann was born in 1937 in Złoczów, Poland. Having survived the German Nazi occupation, in 1946 he left Poland with his family for Czechoslovakia, Austria, Germany and arrived in the U.S.A. on...
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Mieczysław Weinberg’s Opera “The Passenger”: On Memory and Forgetting
Polish classical musicians and opera singers have always enjoyed global renown, with singers such as Mariusz Kwiecień, Ewa Podleś, Piotr Beczała, Aleksandra Kurzak, and Andrzej Dobber regularly...
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Disability in Comic and Tragic Frames
The connection between humor and disability is perhaps one of the most challenging and underresearched, aspects of comic theory. Modern theorists of humor and comedy generally pursue two lines of...
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The Theatre Times: Why? Why Now?
TheTheatreTimes.com is a non-partisan, volunteer-based, global portal for theatre news. With an expanding collaborative team of Regional Managing Editors around the world, we aim to be the largest...
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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 Berlin wall in 1989 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union and its regime in Eastern Europe, Polish...
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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 co-commissioned by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard...
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In Memoriam: Bogusław Schaeffer, Poland’s Renaissance Man
We are republishing this article from 2012 to remember Boguslaw Schaeffer who died today….He was 80 years old… Polish theatre has gained world renown thanks to its innovative and bold experimental...
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“Slave Play”: Can a Subaltern Consent?
Disclaimer: I was Jeremy’s teacher at Yale during the time he wrote Slave Play, so this isn’t a traditional critical review and should not be used as such; rather, it’s a continuation of the...
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On Screen And On Stage, Disability Continues To Be Depicted In Outdated,...
The #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements have forced Hollywood and other artists and filmmakers to rethink their subject matter and casting practices. However, despite an increased sensitivity to...
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4 Plays that Dramatize the Kidnapping of Children During Wars
Since February 2022, Western and Ukrainian media have reported on the kidnapping and forced adoption of Ukrainian children by Russians. The exact number of Ukrainian children transferred to Russia has...
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