SPECIAL SECTION: THE DESIGNER’S EYE
Expect the Unexpected
Whether brainy or gutsy, Mimi Lien’s sets are arresting architectural formations in space
By Jeremy M. Barker
The Accidental Costume Designer
How Ana Kuzmanic’s love of drawing and fashion led her to an extraordinary theatre career
By Kris Vire
Talk Softly But Install Big Speakers
Soundscaper John Zalewski takes a holistic, even visual approach to crafting a play’s aural world
By Steven Leigh Morris
ALSO:
The Biggest Names in Theatre (This Season)
The season’s most-produced plays and playwrights, and other fun facts about the coming year of theatrical bounty
The Designing Season
Designers tell us what shows they’re dying to see (and hear) in the coming season. Plus: Production schedules for the 2014-15 season from theatres around the country
Editor’s Note
Letters
From the Executive Director
Is It Real or Is It Digitized?
TCG on the Web
News in Brief
Looking for Lilith’s Guatemalan exchange; Seattle throws a Beckett Fest
Plus: Entrances and Exits; Awards & Prizes; In Memoriam: Robin Williams, Lauren Bacall
Front & Center
Alan Smithee Directed This Play
In the Forest, She Grew Fangs
Harry Thaw Hates Everybody
Native Guard
The Great Tragedies: Mike Daisey Takes on Shakespeare
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Production Notebook
Glimpses of a new book about Ming Cho Lee’s design legacy
People
Misha Berson on Louis Hobson’s plan to make Seattle a musical-theatre incubator
Conversations
Retired artistic directors Jon Jory and Tina Packer on their next acts
Currents
Kerry Reid on Redmoon’s Great Chicago Fire Festival
Diep Tran talks to theatre artists of color strategizing for access and representation
Suzy Evans on efforts to close theatre’s gender gap
Isaac Butler on the Houston collision between TUTS and Hands on a Hardbody
Antecedents
Jeffrey Sweet on ACT’s momentous days in Chicago
Strategies
Eliza Bent on Theatre Offensive’s relevance makeover
Global Spotlight
David Savran chats with German comic surrealist Herbert Fritsch
Books
Michael Bloom reviews two new books by Sarah Ruhl
20 Questions
For Jinkx Monsoon
