The Field and Its Challenges
A chorus of voices proposes crucial goals for the American theatre—and suggests some creative ways of getting there.
Category Archives: Features
An Interview With the Playwright by Himself
It all started innocently enough.
The Immaterial Theatre
From a brew of doubt, hope and mystery, a playwright conjures the theatre of the future.
High Anxiety
Peering over the edge at the Humana Festival.
A Critic’s Summit
An interview with Robert Brustein and Frank Rich.
Fear of Falling
Pushing ‘Master Builder’ over the expressionistic edge.
The Boiling Point
Renegade energy and sophisticated technique are the marks of Printer’s Devil.
Apocalypse Avignon
The World Cup meets the collapse Western civilization.
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.
