Photo from “American Theatre”: Lost and Found in Translation: Where Are All the International Plays?

Clockwise from top left: a scene from “What Happens Next” at The Cherry Arts; Matty Robinson and Dennis Bisto in “The Ugly One” at Trap Door Theatre (photo by J. Michael Griggs); “Django in Pain” at the Play Company; and Lois Abdelmalek in “Kiss” at the Wilma Theater (photo by Johanna Austin)

Trap Door represents international theatre:

Trap Door was recently featured in an article published in American Theatre acknowledging our long term commitment to representing internationally focused works.

Read the Article here:

Lost and Found in Translation: Where Are All the International Plays?

 

“In Chicago, another long-lifer is Trap Door Theatre, founded in 1994 by artistic director Beata Pilch. The Eastern European-inflected company not only produces an annual storefront season of 5-6 productions, almost all scripts in translation, but also maintains a sizable touring company performing throughout France, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and elsewhere.”

 

The Cherry Arts artistic director talks with leaders at other companies programming works in translation about what a more global approach could mean for the U.S. theatre.

By Samuel Buggeln

in: American Theatre a publication of Theatre Communications Group