Becoming a Playwright
A look back.
Category Archives: Opinion
Developed to Death
Our writers should be grappling with the limits of production, not of development.
American Theatre: For Whites Only?
A reprint of a seminal 1966 essay that led to the founding of the Negro Ensemble Company.
Institution-as-Artwork
We may not have realized we were building long-lasting institutions to make theatre. But now that we have them, what should we do with them?
María Irene Fornés and Tina Howe: Women’s Work
Two major playwrights reflect on the role of gender in their writing and in their careers.
Purging the Citadel
The lessons of recent history teach us that the arts will only survive if they are in the hands of artists.
Imagining the Greeks
The world’s oldest plays continue in our time to be staged, restaged, mulled over, written about. What accounts for their enduring fascination?
On Art and Understanding
Excerpts from the keynote address of TCG’s 1984 National Conference, delivered by the artistic director of Canada’s Stratford Festival in Johnson Chapel of Amherst College in Massachusetts.
Updating Classics: A Revamped Verdi Fuels the Fray
Jonathan Miller’s ‘Rigoletto’ taps the work’s Shakespearean roots, via a transplant to Little Italy.
Permanence for Permanence’s Sake?
As the nation’s nonprofit theatres have become real estate developers, a crisis of artistic mission looms.
