Fear of Falling
Pushing ‘Master Builder’ over the expressionistic edge.
Opinion
Women’s Work: White Gloves or Bare Hands?
Why is it, playwright Tina Howe wonders out loud before an audience of women, that men can write with knuckles bared but women have to pull their punches?
A Modest Proposal
An award-winning playwright takes aim at undergraduate arts training, not to mention the Fortune 500, sex education, and the occasional piece of Republican legislation.
Istanbul Looking West: Art or Politics?
A Turkish festival mirrors the nation’s cultural crisis.
Subsidized Separatism: Responses to ‘The Ground on Which I Stand’
The debate continues in the wake of the address and its aftermath.
Mamet Vs. Mamet
He’s playwright, director, theorist—and his own worst enemy.
Addie’s Last Tape
A look at Steppenwolf’s new staging of Faulkner’s ‘As I Lay Dying.’
The Last Word
A playwright speculates on God’s theatrical opinions and other mysteries.
See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me
How the design team of ‘The Who’s Tommy’ reinvented a rock-and-roll classic.
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.
