Your Place or Ours?
A growing movement of place-based theatre draws on historical precedents to build something profoundly local and ever new.
Category Archives: Features
More Than Words: An Interview With Mike Leigh
A chat with the English playwright and filmmaker.
Louisville Sizzles
At this year’s Humana Festival, American playwrights had one thing on their minds.
The Last Word
A playwright speculates on God’s theatrical opinions and other mysteries.
See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me
How the design team of ‘The Who’s Tommy’ reinvented a rock-and-roll classic.
José Rivera: ‘We All Think Magically in Our Sleep’
Magic realism is just another way to tell the truth, the playwright of ‘Marisol’ explains.
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.
Adrienne Kennedy’s Ohio Homecoming
Her mythology of one emanates a mysterious but universal truth.
‘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.
Art Attack
What do Plato and Pat Buchanan have in common?
