Hirschfeld: Art and Recollections From Eight Decades
A look at the new book by Al Hirschfeld from Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 306 PP., $50 cloth.
A Public Life: Remembering Joe Papp
Remembrances of the indomitable New York theatre pioneer.
Black Orpheus: A Mythical, Musical Story
A new spin on the old myth, inspired by the classic film and set in Trinidad.
Fear and Loathing and Amiri Baraka
A review of ‘The Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader,’ edited by William J. Harris, ed., Thunder’s Mouth Press, New York. 540 pp, $24.95 cloth, $13.95 paper.
The Times of Zelda Fichandler
From the front lines of a theatre revolution, she has been dreamer, pathfinder, and mentor to a generation of artists.
Chicago Impromptu
Spolin and Sills Laid Down The Rules. The Generations Who Came After Played by Them. That’s How Chicago Invented Itself.
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.
Designing Money
Producers routinely under-estimate the time and expense of the designs they rely on, and the math shows the result: Designers often make less than minimum wage.
Theatre on the Couch
In an America obsessed with personal health, the theatre fosters addictive behavior.
Nuoxi, Uixi, and Today’s Chinese Experimental Theatre
Masked ritual folk theatre is becoming more prevalent in the country’s interior provinces.
