Experiencing the Other
TCG’s Amherst conference was a landmark gathering rich in unexpected connections among forms, disciplines and far-flung cultures.
Category Archives: Issue
On Art and Understanding
Excerpts from the keynote address of TCG’s 1984 National Conference, delivered by the artistic director of Canada’s Stratford Festival in Johnson Chapel of Amherst College in Massachusetts.
Stages
New plays from around the world and closer to home.
Trends
A halt to theatre demolition and the latest on LORT/AEA negotiations.
From ‘Midsummer’
Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc.
Updating Classics: A Revamped Verdi Fuels the Fray
Jonathan Miller’s ‘Rigoletto’ taps the work’s Shakespearean roots, via a transplant to Little Italy.
Permanence for Permanence’s Sake?
As the nation’s nonprofit theatres have become real estate developers, a crisis of artistic mission looms.
Credentials Debate
Is the Humanities Council being politicized? Plus, other news of NEA funding and legislative action.
Funding
Updates from companies across the U.S.
All Over the Map
The pleasures of both Stanley Kauffman’s ‘Theatre Criticisms’ and Bonnie Marranca’s ‘Theatre Writings.’
