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The World Cup meets the collapse Western civilization.
Category Archives: Opinion
Women’s Work: White Gloves or Bare Hands?
Why is it, playwright Tina Howe wonders out loud before an audience of women, that men can write with knuckles bared but women have to pull their punches?
The Raw and the Cooked
Two toothsome plays take a bite out of Humana.
A Modest Proposal
An award-winning playwright takes aim at undergraduate arts training, not to mention the Fortune 500, sex education, and the occasional piece of Republican legislation.
Istanbul Looking West: Art or Politics?
A Turkish festival mirrors the nation’s cultural crisis.
Subsidized Separatism: Responses to ‘The Ground on Which I Stand’
The debate continues in the wake of the address and its aftermath.
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.
