Zhenya Berkovich and Svetlana Petriychuk were arrested in May 2023, despite their play no longer being staged. Their trial is ...
Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile A Russian court on Monday opened the trial of a ...
Lebanese playwright and director Chrystèle Khodr wades through the ruins of a society in her latest play "Ordalie", exploring the social, political and physical wreckage of her homeland and its ...
A Russian military court Friday extended the detentions of a theatre director and a playwright by six months in a case that has shaken Russia's already shrunken theatre community. Director ...
Sławomir Mrożek is a journalist, draftsman and writer of short prose works, but he is first and foremost a playwright who has been producing works for the stage for decades. He debuted in 1958 with a ...
Stephen Tompkinson has begun touring the stage premiere of new play Stumped, weeks after a jury cleared him of inflicting grievous bodily harm. The DCI Banks star was accused of punching a drunk ...
A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Israel’s war on Gaza: Rights groups urge Biden to oppose threats to ...
A MULTI-AWARD winning Farnworth playwright has been honoured after a college's new theatre was named after him. The Jim Cartwright Theatre, named after the playwright, director and actor, was ...
A theatre director and a playwright have appeared in court accused of justifying terrorism with a play they first staged in Moscow back in 2020. The trial of Zhenya Berkovich and Svetlana ...
A Russian court on Monday opened the trial of a theater director and a playwright accused of advocating terrorism in a play, the latest step in an unrelenting crackdown on dissent in Russia that ...
A theatre director and a playwright have appeared in court accused of justifying terrorism with a play they ... playwright go on trial in 'absurd' case over 2020 play Sky video 20 May 2024 at 3:22 pm ...
Seven years after the murder, David Pagniano decided to plead guilty before his trial was scheduled to start and allowed a judge to determine his sentence without a plea agreement. Pagniano, 62, also ...