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Category Archives: Features
Green Theatre: Confessions of an Eco-Reporter
As the planet burns, what can art do that activism can’t? Perhaps, as the work of 3 path-breaking companies attests, that’s a false choice. Plus: a to-do list for green theatre, and sketches toward an eco-canon.
Golden Streets of San Francisco
A new adaptation of ‘McTeague’ is more about longing than greed.
Birds of a Feather
In directing ‘Hamlet’ and ‘The Seagull’ in repertory at American Repertory Theatre, Ron Daniels finds parallels and contrasts that illuminate both works.
Power to the Actor
Great actors in the full sway of their passions are likely to be more persuasive conduits to the interior of plays than the arbitrary, decorative conceptions of postmodernist directors.
Making Waves
Nearly everyone in radio drama is reinventing the wheel.
Hellraiser
The shock tactics of Reza Abdoh push audiences to the edge.
Not just a cabaret.
Weimar recreated at Louisville Classics Festival, highlighted by rare visit of the Berliner Ensemble.
Miller and Hare in less than top form.
Reviews of London productions of ‘The Ride Down Mt. Morgan’ and ‘Murmuring Judges.’
An Uber-Musical From Robert Wilson
‘The Black Rider’ testifies to his great love for theatre in all its manifestations. Can audiences relax and enjoy it?
