Apocalypse Avignon
The World Cup meets the collapse Western civilization.
Category Archives: Critic’s Notebook
The Raw and the Cooked
Two toothsome plays take a bite out of Humana.
Istanbul Looking West: Art or Politics?
A Turkish festival mirrors the nation’s cultural crisis.
The Plays Tell the Tale
Humana is two decades old, and still surprising.
Mamet Vs. Mamet
He’s playwright, director, theorist—and his own worst enemy.
Addie’s Last Tape
A look at Steppenwolf’s new staging of Faulkner’s ‘As I Lay Dying.’
U.S.A. Today
Humana Festival playwrights project trouble on the home front.
Louisville Sizzles
At this year’s Humana Festival, American playwrights had one thing on their minds.
The Performance of Mourning
The theatre of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, a traveling graveyard that combines monumentality with patchwork and reimagines the connection between politics and the sacred.
‘Waltz’ in Three Dimensions
What a viewing of 3 different productions of Paula Vogel’s second-generation AIDS play reveals about its essence and possibilities.
