Coming to Terms
American plays offer new truths about the collective trauma of Vietnam.
Category Archives: Opinion
Stars & Strife Forever
In the New American Epics, drama busts out of the living room into the open spaces of our national history.
Answering Four Tough Questions
What are the obligations of ‘regional’ theatres to their communities? And how should that impact our programming choices?
The Perils of ‘Bigger Is Better’ Funding
We have the irony of considerable support, both public and private, going to subsidize the cultural tastes of the most affluent segment of the population.
One Devil Too Many
The persistence, contra the puritans, of Marlowe’s ‘Doctor Faustus.’
Not Much Ado After All
On the evidence of their current showing on Broadway, the R.S.C. has fallen from its ensemble ideals into mere spectacle and showmanship.
Does Dickens Deliver More Than Money?
Dickens’ tale is a perfect myth for a capitalist culture.
‘An Art Without Effort, Where the Step Creates the Way’
A statement on the cancellation of ‘the CIVIL warS.’
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.
Purging the Citadel
The lessons of recent history teach us that the arts will only survive if they are in the hands of artists.
