Imagining the Greeks
The world’s oldest plays continue in our time to be staged, restaged, mulled over, written about. What accounts for their enduring fascination?
Category Archives: Opinion
On Art and Understanding
Excerpts from the keynote address of TCG’s 1984 National Conference, delivered by the artistic director of Canada’s Stratford Festival in Johnson Chapel of Amherst College in Massachusetts.
Updating Classics: A Revamped Verdi Fuels the Fray
Jonathan Miller’s ‘Rigoletto’ taps the work’s Shakespearean roots, via a transplant to Little Italy.
Permanence for Permanence’s Sake?
As the nation’s nonprofit theatres have become real estate developers, a crisis of artistic mission looms.
The Liberation of Eugene O’Neill
Where does O’Neill stand today, some 30 years after his death? Evidently on a pedestal.
Quintero on Fact and Feeling
Thoughts on O’Neill from one of his most important interpreters.
Good Company
The partnerships of sports and the stage at this year Olympics should come as no surprise.
A Balance of Interests
To what degree is an originating theatre entitled to share in the future theatrical life of a play?
Adding to Beckett
What a mystery it is that these tiny and ever-shrinking dramacules—these death rattles—can bring so much life to the theatre.
Trial By Jury: Critics on the Stand?
Imagining a courtroom argument against, and a case for, fair and honest criticism.
