Amazing place. Someone is going to the effort to publish the names & faces of ICE officers & fake ICE officers, including the license plates of their vehicles. All these guys are mere criminal kidnappers. If someone is making videos of the thugs, this is a place you can send your work. icelist.info

Dmitry Bykov's powerful, unorthodox book about Volodymyr Zelenskyy, his place in history, and his battles with Vladimir Putin, is now published by @openletterbooks.bsky.social. It was a pleasure and honor to translate this important, provocative study.

The Guardian on The Reckoning: Dash Arts at Arcola Theatre in London, by Anastasiia Kosodii & Josephine Burton. "...shattering anecdotes ... which collects verbatim testimony from conflict victims with the aim of bringing prosecutions for war crimes." www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/j...

Opening tonight at the Tank in NYC, runs June 6, 7, 9. Plays by young Ukrainian playwrights Asia Pshenychna and Taya Fedorenko. www.facebook.com/share/r/1B1n...

Dmytro Ternovyi on Ukrainian radio where he talked about his work with Center for International Theatre Development, Voyage Theater Company and Ensemble Theatre of Chattanooga via the Worldwide Ukrainian Play Readings and LINKAGES: Ukraine. Eng subs available. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0en...

Today in SF. Helena Petrovska's Fish Don't Cry, about the catastrophe at Marioupol. From the producers: "The show will be held at the JCC San Francisco. Entrance to the auditorium at Fisher Family Hall in the foyer. Parking on the street or in underground parking lot."

Hanna Komar on The Reckoning by Josephine Burton and Anastasiia Kosodii for Dash Arts at the Arcola Theatre in London. In rep to the end of June. "I went to The Reckoning. The play lets us experience conversations & questions familiar to those who are following events in Ukraine. I recommend it!"

June 6, 7 and 9 in NYC at the Tank: Laura Cahill's Young Playwrights Ukraine present new plays by Asia Pschenychna and Karina Syrota.

Blair Ruble’s latest Arts of War blog about Ukrainian theater in London! Read it at: www.citd.us/arts-of-war Subscribe to receive it in your inbox on Mondays: mailchi.mp/.../sign-for...

2nd article about Center for International Theatre Development (CITD)'s LINKAGES projects, this one a conversation among Carolyn Dunn, Dave White, and Nina Zakhozhenko in the LINKAGES: Ukraine project. + translator Taya Fedorenko of Young Playwrights Ukraine project. howlround.com/documenting-...

My essay on CITD LINKAGES projects. We are all humbled to have the opportunity to carry on the great work of the legendary Philip Arnoult via his Center for International Theatre Development (CITD). A companion piece I put together will appear any time now. howlround.com/citds-linkag...

Voyage Theater hosts readings of works by Nina Zakhozhenko, Oksana Grytsenko, Marina Smilianets, Oleksandr Zhuhan & Polina Polozhentseva - May 8, 7 p.m. @ NY Public Library: Center for International Theatre Development (CITD) & Ukrainian Institute, Kyiv, w/ aid of Teatr na Zhukakh, Kharkiv.

April 26 & 27 - Ohio Northern University. Ukrainian director Anna Turlo directs short works by Oksana Savchenko, Oksana Grytsenko, Nina Zakhozhenko Olha Matsiupa and Maksym Kurochkin. Organized by Joan Robbins

Voyage Theater Company hosts readings of Ukrainian works @ New York Public Library, 53rd St. NYC, May 8, 7 p.m. Works to be determined this week. We bonded with artistic director Wayne Maugans working on the Dictionary of Ukrainian Emotions podcast last fall. www.pravda.com.ua/eng/podcasts...

Dmitry Bykov's incendiary book about Volodymyr Zelenskyy has gone to the printers in my translation. Dmitry's dissection of Putinism, Russian society and patriotism is explosive. His mini-chapters on feces and kholodets (jellied meat) in Russian culture are hilarious, disturbing and stunning.

Center for International Theatre Development (CITD)'s LINKAGES: Ukraine/Theatrical Windows project - podcast reading of Anna Halas's play "Chronicles" + interview w/ Anna. Thanks: Garry Lee Posey, Ensemble Theatre of Chattanooga and their Lights Up! project! Listen here: shows.acast.com/etclightsup

Ira Kifa directs "Borscht" by Maryna Smilianets at Drayton Arms Theatre in London, March 18 to 22.

Kateryna Penkova has been voted the new artistic director of The Theater of Playwrights in Kyiv.

Necessity as the Mother of Invention | TDR | Cambridge Core My retelling of my work on my two international play reading projects: Worldwide Ukrainian Play Readings and Insulted. Belarus Worldwide Readings Project. - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Ensemble Theatre of Chattanooga streams a reading of Dmytro Ternovyi's "On the Eve" in its Lights Up! podcast series - plus a conversation with the author. Made possible by a grant from Center for International Theatre Development (CITD)... shows.acast.com/6296fb79d398...

Yes. I ask Charles III to cancel his invitation for the American president to visit London. He is not to be trusted. He will steal the silverware, believe me. stoptrump.org.uk/petition-can...

Garry Posey of Ensemble Theater of Chattanooga chats with Brandice Thompson and me, representing the Center for International Theatre Development (CITD) about our Worldwide Ukrainian Play Readings and LINKAGES: Ukraine... shows.acast.com/6296fb79d398...

Join the Center for International Theatre Development (CITD) mailing list and keep up on all the projects we are doing with Ukrainian, Polish and Hungarian artists and more. Art and sanity - two goals and two tools of CITD. mailchi.mp/def7bb9ab316...

The first of 3 Lights Up! podcasts features Garry Posey, Caleb Sexton, Brandice Thompson and me on collaborations among Center for the International Theatre Development (CITD), Ensemble Theater of Chattanooga, Ukrainian writers Dmytro Ternovyi, Anna Halas &c. Listen: feeds.acast.com/public/shows...

Basko, in a most intimate exchange with her husband, compellingly speaks for millions when she writes, “As the length of the war began to be measured in weeks, I became more and more resolved in my desire to stay here on our land.” www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/le...

Oleksandra Basko was one of the first Ukrainian writers to approach me after the full-scale invasion began 3 years ago. But she wrote faster than I could translate. Natasha Ramer stepped in to create a filmscript that she produced and filmed with husband Ray White. It has won 34 awards at festivals.

Kateryna Suprun: "You ask about Ukraine returning to normal life? But what is “normal life”? Right now, every Ukrainian’s life is deeply surreal... It is hard to say what life will look like when peace finally comes." open.substack.com/pub/twogrump...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/te...

А brilliant Zoom chat 3 days ago about strategies for writing in times of crisis in the LINKAGES: Ukraine project of the Center for International Theatre Development (CITD). Smart, talented, curious, generous people - how can you go wrong?! Nina Zakhezhenko, Dave White, Carolyn Dunn, Taya Fedorenko.

Rachel Vigour just days ago finished her co-translation - with author Volodymyr Serdiuk - of Volodymyr's play "Let the Children In" and she has already arranged a reading of the piece at the Playwrights' Lab of the Live Arts Theater in Charlottesville, VA. This will take place tomorrow, Feb. 17.

If you can, please sign this petition in support of Russian director and poet who has been sent to prison for 8 years for opposing the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This link will let you sign, donate and share. Whatever you can do helps. chng.it/Zs8kMf8sJs

Watch the celebration of Philip Arnoult's life from last summer in a clean, crisp video version. youtu.be/idizUF4pZkw?...

Jan. 29 CITD wrapped "Pod One," the first experimental LINKAGES: Ukraine Zoom conversations bringing together Ukrainian playwright Olena Astasieva, American playwrights Nilan Johnson and Ali Viterbi, plus up-and-coming playwright Karina Syrota who acted as translator.

This last Dictionary of Ukrainian Emotions podcast features the marvelous Kushtrim Hoxha doing a brilliant reading an incredible prose piece by the inimitable Maksym Kurochkin. Click on this IMMEDIATELY and listen. You don't know how much you need to hear this. www.pravda.com.ua/eng/podcasts...

Coming soon, in February: "Borscht Recipes for Survival" by Marina Smilianets in London. Exact dates, venue to come... But it's happening! To be directed by David Adeane. Worldwide Ukrainian Play Readings...

The Dictionary of Ukrainian Emotions podcast is reaching an end. Today the 8th of 9 began streaming. The fab Sharon Washington reads "My Tara" by the splendid Liudmyla Tymoshenko. Sharon does a beautiful, understated performance of Luda's deceptively bucolic memory piece. youtu.be/-VPTA-RmSno?...

"Villagers remember Soviet Ukraine as a time of erasure of unique regional traditions. Hanna Haiduk recalls relatives hiding their embroidered shirts, called a vyshyvanka, to save them from being destroyed by Soviet troops." www.npr.org/2024/12/25/g...

From Wayne Maugans, founding member of Voyage Theater in NY. Wayne was one of the great performers in our Dictionary of Ukrainian Emotions podcast: "It’s a frolicking conversation about theater, creativity and wearing many hats." open.spotify.com/episode/7F8n...

Susan Stroupe's a wonderful piece about Philip Arnoult and Center for International Theatre Development (CITD) in HowlRound Theatre Commons: "He loved being the relative straight man in a room full of weird artists, and the weird artist in a room full of bureaucrats." howlround.com/continuing-l...

New Dictionary of Ukrainian Emotions podcast: Jessica Hecht's incredibly sensitive reading of Olha Matsiupa's beautiful "Flowering," translated by the great John Farndon! And I love Jessica's insight in our post-reading conversation. youtu.be/CjOJsmKmUE0?...

Ukrainian texts for Towson University Theatre Lab and Worldwide Ukrainian Play Readings Dec. 6. Dave White writes: "The event was very well received! Everyone connected with the material in profound, emotional ways. Topol Missile, the final piece of the eve, struck a particularly emotional chord.

"Bad Roads" by Natalka Vorozhbyt at Gotenburg City Theatre named one of best shows of 2024 by Dagens Nyheter. "...insane theatrical play, absurd comedy and surreal direction. Three hyper-current and well-invested theater hours at Gothenburg's city theatre." Worldwide Ukrainian Play Readings.

Photos from the readings of Andrii Bondarenko's Ghost Land on Dec. 6-8 at the Nakano Actor's Studio in Tokyo. To be published in Japanese by Japanese Center of the International Theatre Institute (ITI) & National Noh Theatre.

Andrii Bondarenko's Ghost Land was translated into Japanese and performed at readings Dec. 6-8 at the Nakano Actor's Studio in Tokyo. To be published by Japanese Center of the International Theatre Institute (ITI) & National Noh Theatre. iti-japan.or.jp/announce/100...

Ema Vyroubalova of Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, spreading the word about the Worldwide Ukrainian Play Readings in Kaunas, Lithuania. If you would like to know more yourself, you know where to find me...

Playwright David White hosts a Dec. 6 public reading of four Ukrainian texts at Towson University near Baltimore. The texts by Kateryna Penkova, Ihor Bilyts, Olena Hapieieva and Lena Lagushonkova are drawn from the award-winning book, A Dictionary of Emotions in a Time of War, Laertes Press, 2023.

youtu.be/S_5jSRmmZGY?... Episode 6 of the Dictionary of Ukrainian Emotions podcast. Kathleen Chalfant reads Planting an Apple Tree by Iryna Harets. Hot off the griddle at Ukrainska Pravda in Kyiv - they do a fabulous job putting these things together. I invite you to spend a half an hour with us.

youtu.be/DD5tj_SiZlc?... Tetiana Kytsenko's powerful Call Things by their Names, performed by the great Joe Spano for the Dictionary of Ukrainian Emotions podcast. Episode 4 of 9.

Rahi Rahul has joined the Worldwide Ukrainian Play Readings. He's now rehearsing "Perfect Material" by Taya Fedorenko. A reading will take place soon in Siri, West Bengal, India. It is our 1st event in India, and the 33rd country that WUPR has collaborated with.

www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fi... Nina Kamberos informs me of a Best-of list that our "A Dictionary of Emotions in a Time of War: 20 Short Works by Ukrainian Playwrights" made last year - but we didn't know about it. We were included in the Telegraph's list of the Best Ukraine Books of 2023: