FEATURES
The Necessity of Anarchy
An actor toils and performs on Bread and Puppet Theater’s Vermont farm on the eve of the company’s 50th anniversary
By David Dudley
The Trayvon Factor
Playwrights and theatres are revisiting issues of race on stage in the wake of the Martin-Zimmerman verdict
By Janice C. Simpson
PLAYSCRIPT
The complete text of Conor McPherson’s The Night Alive (not available online), about hope and the possibility of redemption. Plus, a conversation between the playwright and John Patrick Shanley.
DEPARTMENTS
In Memoriam
Jeremy Geidt, by Robert Brustein
Julie Harris, by Jeffry George
Front & Center
Daniel Kitson’s Analog.Ue at St. Ann’s Warehouse, by Chrisopher Kompanek
The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told at OKC Theatre Company, by Eliza Bent
Doug is a D-Bag at Cleveland Public Theatre, by Jason Purdy
The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence at Playwrights Horizons, by Diep Tran
Peter/Wendy at San Francisco’s Custom Made Theatre Company, by Eliza Bent
Djembe and the Forest of Christmas Forgotten at the Ensemble Theatre, by Jason Purdy
Production Notebook
Mary T. & Lizzie K. at Arena Stage
People
The Hypocrites’s Sean Graney goes solo, by Kris Vire
Currents
The expansion of Z Space, by Robert Avila
First Person
Dan Sullivan looks back on 1963, and seven artistic directors of 50-year-old theatres look forward
Antecedents
Paul VanDeCarr digs for Glass Menagerie gold in an old Eddie Dowling interview
Strategies
One-minute play festivals, by Eliza Bent
20 Questions
for Willem Dafoe
