Stories

Chekhov's final masterpiece, The Cherry Orchard, follows a fading aristocratic family who return to the estate they can no longer afford, and watch it —...

The Martha Graham Technique is alive and well! Currently in the South of France at the legendary Fondation Maeght. MELODRAMA was thrilled to catch up...

Paolo Fantin is having a rather spectacular year. In February, he designed the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony, and this July will reveal...

An encounter with the costume sketches of Rococo artist François Boucher in the Bibliothèque-Musée de l’Opéra (Paris Opera Library) shifted Camille Assaf’s path from theory...

Stage design is often a hidden art. While audiences marvel at the final grand result of an opera, few realize the months of drafting, sculpting,...

At nineteen, the Royal Central student Leo Simpe-Asante can already list his work as a composer, poet, playwright, and actor on his resume. He has...

Whether she is transforming actors into neon-hued trolls or mechanical dolls, the Berlin-based costume designer Teresa Vergho views the human body as a site of...

For over two decades, the Belgian set and exhibition designer Sabine Theunissen has been the close collaborator of renowned South African artist William Kentridge. While...

From years spent working for John Galliano during his Christian Dior reign, to the hallowed stages of the Royal Opera House and the Royal Danish...

Rakie Ayola, a powerhouse of the British stage and screen, is barreling toward an ADR session in an Uber for a film she can’t quite...

The ecstatic, high-energy revival of Cats: The Jellicle Ball at the Broadhurst Theatre in New York reimagines the feline competition at the heart of the...

At the London premiere of Jaja’s African Hair Braiding last week at the Lyric Hammersmith, the air was alight with shrieks and uninhibited, riotous laughter—the...

From a childhood spent building worlds out of Lego in rural Ireland to designing for the historic stages of La Fenice and La Scala, set...

Theodora Skipitares has spent forty years building a puppet population in New York City. Her work emerged from the 1970s feminist second wave, a time...

Theatre polymath and artistic force Whitney White spent the last month on a sort of pilgrimage to the "Holy Land" of theater makers. Otherwise known...

Getting a peak into opera costumier Hannah Oellinger’s mind is a wondrous thing. In this conversation with Melodrama she shares how her imagination is fed...

The young Armenian-American clarinetist Anoush Pogossian is at the start of her career, thinking carefully about who classical music is for. She is a fellow...

Actor and practitioner Scott Shepherd has an “extreme‑sport attitude toward performance.” A beacon of The Wooster Group and Elevator Repair Service—experimental theatre ensembles known for...

Opera found Julieth Lozano Rolong by accident—and she followed it all the way from Colombian flash mobs to international stages. Calling in from rehearsals in...

Keenan Tyler Oliphant is a theatre-maker and director from Cape Town, South Africa. Melodrama’s Kate Purdum recently spoke to Oliphant over the phone about his...

Sam Pritchard is a theatre director and the former Associate Director at the Royal Court Theatre in London. Most recently, he directed Romans: A Novel,...

Costume and set designer Soutra’s creative partnership with director-of-the-moment Jamie Lloyd has shaped some of the most talked-about productions of the past few years—Evita, Sunset...