Trial by Satire
American peace groups, West Germany’s Green Party and the Plutonium Players practice politics as theatre—in courtrooms, in the streets, on the six o’clock news.
Category Archives: Features
Sondheim in His Own Words
There’s no mystery to making a musical, declares the theatre’s most acclaimed composer. It’s just hard work.
Coming to Terms
American plays offer new truths about the collective trauma of Vietnam.
Stages
Wooster Group and Richard Foreman collaborate, a festival of one-acts, and more.
Visitors
An excerpt from ‘Walden.’
Letters to the Editor
Theatre Facts dissent, a defense of the subscription model, and more.
The Trouble With Lyubimov
As director of Moscow’s avant-garde Taganka Theatre, he became ‘the theatrical conscience of his nation.’ Now in exile, his future lies in the West.
Stars & Strife Forever
In the New American Epics, drama busts out of the living room into the open spaces of our national history.
Stages
A new play from Beth Henley, second stages proliferate, theme seasons, and more.
On Leaving the Theatre
From ‘Theatre Poems and Songs,’ published by Methuen, London.
