Hamlet’s Body
How the Suzuki technique has helped StageWest’s new production rebuild Shakespeare’s play from the feet up.
Category Archives: Features
Alan Bennett’s (Relatively) Unsung Brilliance
Common to all the writing of this quintessentially English playwright, under-exposed in the U.S., is a reluctance to take people, or situations, at face value.
The Theatre of Guilt
The theatre is not a courtroom, a distinguished critic argues, and should have nobler ambitions than dispensing guilt and blame.
Arvin-and-Edgar Team Bolsters Long Wharf
A visit with the Connecticut theatre’s long-standing management couple, and an update on hirings and departures nationwide.
Three Women Talking
British playwright Arnold Wesker’s new play about gender relations opens at Chicago’s Northlight Theatre.
A New Progressivism
A generative politics, wedding activism by both citizens and the state, has as strong role for the nation’s nonprofit sector.
Green Theatre: Confessions of an Eco-Reporter
As the planet burns, what can art do that activism can’t? Perhaps, as the work of 3 path-breaking companies attests, that’s a false choice. Plus: a to-do list for green theatre, and sketches toward an eco-canon.
Golden Streets of San Francisco
A new adaptation of ‘McTeague’ is more about longing than greed.
Birds of a Feather
In directing ‘Hamlet’ and ‘The Seagull’ in repertory at American Repertory Theatre, Ron Daniels finds parallels and contrasts that illuminate both works.
Power to the Actor
Great actors in the full sway of their passions are likely to be more persuasive conduits to the interior of plays than the arbitrary, decorative conceptions of postmodernist directors.
