Arvin-and-Edgar Team Bolsters Long Wharf
A visit with the Connecticut theatre’s long-standing management couple, and an update on hirings and departures nationwide.
Three Women Talking
British playwright Arnold Wesker’s new play about gender relations opens at Chicago’s Northlight Theatre.
A New Progressivism
A generative politics, wedding activism by both citizens and the state, has as strong role for the nation’s nonprofit sector.
Perspecta 26: Theater, Theatricality, and Architecture
A review of a new collection of essays about theatre architecture.
Green Theatre: Confessions of an Eco-Reporter
As the planet burns, what can art do that activism can’t? Perhaps, as the work of 3 path-breaking companies attests, that’s a false choice. Plus: a to-do list for green theatre, and sketches toward an eco-canon.
Golden Streets of San Francisco
A new adaptation of ‘McTeague’ is more about longing than greed.
Birds of a Feather
In directing ‘Hamlet’ and ‘The Seagull’ in repertory at American Repertory Theatre, Ron Daniels finds parallels and contrasts that illuminate both works.
Barriers on Visas Are Eased
A new bill remedies problems with the 1990 Immigration Act.
How Safe Is It?
The arts should run counter to a mood of national apathy, not acquiesce to or accommodate it.
Power to the Actor
Great actors in the full sway of their passions are likely to be more persuasive conduits to the interior of plays than the arbitrary, decorative conceptions of postmodernist directors.
