Pattern Recognition, Reconstructed: The Unlikely Return of Fornés’s ‘Evelyn Brown’
A new revival at La MaMa of the playwright’s opaque verbatim play from 1980 gives a fresh window into her unique formal and thematic ambitions.
Stories by Scott T. Cummings
Company First and Last: SITI Takes Its Final Bow
The tight-knit troupe, whose unique training has been at least as influential as its form-bending work, ends its 30-year run in a typically unlikely way: with a take on ‘A Christmas Carol.’
Les Waters: Theatre Spaces and Thin Places
In excerpts from a new book, the British-born director talks about childhood mysteries, the theatre buildings he’s worked in, and his fascination with erasure and contradictions.
Trans-Pacific Partnership
Japan’s Tadashi Suzuki revisits SITI, the U.S. company he helped found 25 years ago.
Playwright/Dramaturg Leon Katz’s Large, Lucid Imagination
In his teaching and his work, he pressed all theatre workers to develop their own ideal theatre. But none could match his.
Puppets: Still Very Much a Thing
As today’s cutting-edge puppeteers peer into the souls of animated objects, they’re seeing the future—or rather, the eternal present—of the theatre.
Time Slips Through the Work of Sandglass Theater
Their work tackles existential dilemmas and the challenges of aging; the Vermont-based company also hosts family-friendly festivals each summer.
Manual Cinema: The Life and Death of Objects, Including Humans
The hard-to-classify work of this multimedia Chicago company is coming out of the shadows.
Adrienne Kennedy’s Ohio Homecoming
Her mythology of one emanates a mysterious but universal truth.
Not just a cabaret.
Weimar recreated at Louisville Classics Festival, highlighted by rare visit of the Berliner Ensemble.
