Letters to the Editor: The Business End
Readers respond to a recent article advocating that theatre schools teach their students more about the trade they’ll be entering.
Category Archives: Letters
Letters to the Editor: Virginia Cares, Print Returns
A few reader responses to recent features and news.
Letters to the Editor: Long Wharf, Stage Blood
Readers respond to a review of a book about making it bleed onstage, and a theatre leader takes issue with a recent report on a necessarily changing field.
Letters: Talkback Pushback
Readers have a lot to say about post-show discussions.
Letters to the Editor: Walnut Street, ASL Advice, Rep Companies
Readers take issue with 3 articles from the past few months.
Letters to the Editor: Time Stopper, Funding Caution
A stage manager’s stopwatch keeps a COVID vigil, and a reader expresses skepticism about arts funding as a panacea.
Letters for January/February 2020
As a former Chicago theatre person (artistic and then executive director of Free Street Theater, from 1991 to 2003), I was glad to see American Theatre devote an article to the wonderful ensemble scene in Chicago (“Stronger Together,” AT, Nov. ’19). But I found it “curious” that the writer neglected to mention perhaps Chicago’s oldest functioning theatre ensemble, Curious Theatre Branch. Curious has been devoted to new work for more than 30 years, having produced Rhinofest long before the first “Fringe” for most of that…
Letters for November 2019
Readers respond to our about our October special issue on small theatres.
Letters for May/June 2019
Responses to a piece about diversifying improv, and a profile of the great Laurie Metcalf.
Letters for January 2019
In defense of post-show talkbacks, and in praise of a playwright’s candor.
