Egyptian theater

The crowd gathers quickly. In a burst of color and sound, the troupe drums, sings and dances, leading the growing…

In a sense, the text of a play is incomplete. It is written to be performed, more than to be…

In an attempt to better understand the role of theater within the ongoing 25 January revolution, local playwright and theater…

“Don’t believe everything you hear, even what I am telling you,” one of the narrators says. It is a classic…

I will not be able to do justice to the life of Hanaa Abdelfattah by writing here, for I only…

  What is one of Egypt’s first independent theater troupes, El-Warsha, doing putting on a performance of a play written…

For how long will artists continue “representing” the January revolution in didactic ways, pretending that their audience were neither part…

The slowdown in the tourism sector since the revolution began had many drawbacks. But one positive outcome critics had hoped…

Over the past three weeks, Al-Talia Theater has been showing “The Salem Witches,” Egyptian theater director Gamal Yaquot’s adaption of…