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.
Opinion
One Devil Too Many
The persistence, contra the puritans, of Marlowe’s ‘Doctor Faustus.’
Not Much Ado After All
On the evidence of their current showing on Broadway, the R.S.C. has fallen from its ensemble ideals into mere spectacle and showmanship.
Does Dickens Deliver More Than Money?
Dickens’ tale is a perfect myth for a capitalist culture.
‘An Art Without Effort, Where the Step Creates the Way’
A statement on the cancellation of ‘the CIVIL warS.’
You Have to Be There: Notes on Robert Wilson
In Wilson’s gigantic vision of ‘CIVIL warS,’ the conflict extends from classes and races to species and sexes, and even beyond, to the cosmic.
Purging the Citadel
The lessons of recent history teach us that the arts will only survive if they are in the hands of artists.
Imagining the Greeks
The world’s oldest plays continue in our time to be staged, restaged, mulled over, written about. What accounts for their enduring fascination?
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.
Updating Classics: A Revamped Verdi Fuels the Fray
Jonathan Miller’s ‘Rigoletto’ taps the work’s Shakespearean roots, via a transplant to Little Italy.
