The Last Word
A playwright speculates on God’s theatrical opinions and other mysteries.
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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?
Grim Reaper Is Strong Presence in Louisville
Death came for everyone, or nearly so, in this year’s Humana Festival offerings.
Brecht Our Contemporary: Berlin in Crisis
A new production of ‘Good Woman of Sezuan’ offers cautionary parallels for post-reunification Germany.
American’s Theatres Are Gripped by Recession
The dire state of the nation’s economy has affected every aspect of nonprofit theatres’ operations, leaving them with few choices but to retrench and recalibrate.
