Huck’s in Trouble Again
Mark Twain’s classic encompasses the suffering which at once splits and joins a whole continent, but some can’t see that through the pain.
Stories by James Leverett
Swimming to Cambodia
An introduction to excerpts from the performance monologue by Spalding Gray.
One Devil Too Many
The persistence, contra the puritans, of Marlowe’s ‘Doctor Faustus.’
You Have to Be There: Notes on Robert Wilson
In Wilson’s gigantic vision of ‘CIVIL warS,’ the conflict extends from classes and races to species and sexes, and even beyond, to the cosmic.
Updating Classics: A Revamped Verdi Fuels the Fray
Jonathan Miller’s ‘Rigoletto’ taps the work’s Shakespearean roots, via a transplant to Little Italy.
Adding to Beckett
What a mystery it is that these tiny and ever-shrinking dramacules—these death rattles—can bring so much life to the theatre.
Plays and Playwrights: Cross Pollination
Translation projects are bridging the cultural gap.
The (Im)Pure Theatre of Twyla Tharp
Tharp has turned the tables on both dance and theatre, while having her cake and eating it, too.
