Letters to the Editor
Responses to the Sellars/McAnuff dialogue and Brustein’s RSC takedown.
February 1985
A Delicate Balance Changes
Among the most striking changes in funding for theatre: the growth of corporate support.
Swimming to Cambodia
An introduction to excerpts from the performance monologue by Spalding Gray.
Heroes When We Need Them
There’s a mythic pulse in pop culture that the theatre’s missing out on, asserts mythologist Joseph Campbell.
Stages
From the Goodman to Oregon Shakes, from new works in New Haven to the Hong Kong Arts Festival.
Answering Four Tough Questions
What are the obligations of ‘regional’ theatres to their communities? And how should that impact our programming choices?
The Perils of ‘Bigger Is Better’ Funding
We have the irony of considerable support, both public and private, going to subsidize the cultural tastes of the most affluent segment of the population.
The Plan Is the Body
An excerpt from the author’s collected poetry.
Is It Still ‘Endgame’?
A dispute at ART raises issues of ‘interpretive freedom.’ Also: Equity fights playwrights over the conversion rule, and directors and writers talk collaboration.
Bogart in Bali Hai’i
She’s a director who lights a fire under the familiar.
