‘An Art Without Effort, Where the Step Creates the Way’
A statement on the cancellation of ‘the CIVIL warS.’
Category Archives: Opinion
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.
Permanence for Permanence’s Sake?
As the nation’s nonprofit theatres have become real estate developers, a crisis of artistic mission looms.
The Liberation of Eugene O’Neill
Where does O’Neill stand today, some 30 years after his death? Evidently on a pedestal.
Quintero on Fact and Feeling
Thoughts on O’Neill from one of his most important interpreters.
Good Company
The partnerships of sports and the stage at this year Olympics should come as no surprise.
