Going National: How America’s Regional Theatre Movement Changed the Game
The American theatre as we know it didn’t just evolve organically, inevitably; it was conjured by visionaries who dreamt of a national theatre outside New York, then built it.
Stories by Jim O’Quinn
Editor’s Note for May/June 2015
Let ‘American Theatre”s editor in chief introduce you to our May/June International issue.
Theatre of the Americas, Both Ancient and New
We share more than colonial history with Central and South America; we also share theatrical traditions. But it can take a little re-exploration to map them.
Editor’s Note for April 2015
Fresh critical insight on Chekhov and a new anti-realism alternate with in-depth interviews with Roche Schulfer and the creators of ‘Fun Home.’
Editor’s Note for March 2015
Plays outside the theatre walls are the focus of our two main features; plays outside other theatrical traditions are the subjects of others.
Editor’s Note for Feb. 2015
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A Wooster Group Sing-Along With ‘Early Shaker Spirituals’
The reeling ecstasy of the troupe’s new “record album interpretation” comes via the most straightforward means imaginable.
Into the Polish Woods with Cutting Ball and Teatr ZAR
How a bi-national production of ‘Antigone’ took shape in remote Brzezinka, where Grotowkski’s animating spirit still holds sway.
8 Bay Area Performers Who Journeyed Into Grotowski’s Woods
The ensemble of Cutting Ball’s ‘Antigone’ ranged widely in age and experience, but their intensive work in Brzezinka fused them into an ensemble.
Teatr ZAR’s Jaroslaw Fret, Feeling the Heat but Not Fretting
Mounting and touring an acclaimed new work about the Armenian genocide, ‘Armine, Sister,’ isn’t even the biggest controversy swirling around the Polish director.
