Letters to the Editor
Praise for clowns, multicultural casting, and theatre outside NYC.
Of Time and the Artist
Lincoln Center and the Kennedy Center have to find ways to combat the Broadway sensibility.
Trial by Satire
American peace groups, West Germany’s Green Party and the Plutonium Players practice politics as theatre—in courtrooms, in the streets, on the six o’clock news.
Sondheim in His Own Words
There’s no mystery to making a musical, declares the theatre’s most acclaimed composer. It’s just hard work.
Coming to Terms
American plays offer new truths about the collective trauma of Vietnam.
Stages
Wooster Group and Richard Foreman collaborate, a festival of one-acts, and more.
Visitors
An excerpt from ‘Walden.’
Letters to the Editor
Theatre Facts dissent, a defense of the subscription model, and more.
Travels With the Audience
Can challenging work survive in an age of impulse buying? Ambitious new plays may provide the answer.
The Trouble With Lyubimov
As director of Moscow’s avant-garde Taganka Theatre, he became ‘the theatrical conscience of his nation.’ Now in exile, his future lies in the West.