Huck’s in Trouble Again
Mark Twain’s classic encompasses the suffering which at once splits and joins a whole continent, but some can’t see that through the pain.
Category Archives: Features
A New Role for Richards
On the National Council for the Arts, he’ll speak for the ‘tough, ephemeral’ art of theatre.
Notes From Europe
Issues of identity animate new stagings of Jean Genet’s ‘Les Negres’ and Joshua Sobol ‘Ghetto.’
Letters to the Editor
Pushback against, and praise for, editorials and trend reports.
Acrobats of the Soul
The ‘new vaudevillians’ fuel the theatre with dazzling physical skill and a spirit of comic anarchy.
Stages
New works and auspicious revivals, theatre closures, a home for playwrights, and more.
Operatic Workout
A new work about Harriet Tubman. Plus: a new company devoted to middle-aged actresses, and various comings and goings.
Hispanic Treasures
Theatre and literary specialists join landmark project. Plus: An expanded Young Playwrights Festival, and a new L.A. home for Padua Hills Playwrights.
Theatre Facts 1984
TCG’s first full report on the state of U.S. theatres.
Letters to the Editor
Responses to the Sellars/McAnuff dialogue and Brustein’s RSC takedown.
