Chicago Impromptu
Spolin and Sills laid down the rules. The generations who came after played by them. That’s how Chicago invented itself.
Category Archives: Nationwide
Stories with a national scope.
6 Humana Plays Take the Woman’s-Eye View
In play after play at this year’s festival, men fashioned the yokes and women looked for room to move.
Cultivation for a Change
Actors Theatre of Louisville is seeking out new work by ‘established American writers,’ with mixed results.
TKO in Louisville
You write a play, you take your chances.
Becoming a Playwright
A look back.
The Prime of Robert Brustein
Critic and company man, he has built an audience for adventurous work and an institute to train for it.
Double Jeopardy
With some tough battles behind him in Providence, Adrian Hall is back on the theatrical frontlines in Dallas.
Free at Last
An emotional farewell is staged for activist Free Southern Theatre.
Galati’s New Hat
The Goodman’s second-in-command looks to the future.
Institution-as-Artwork
We may not have realized we were building long-lasting institutions to make theatre. But now that we have them, what should we do with them?
