A Modest Proposal
An award-winning playwright takes aim at undergraduate arts training, not to mention the Fortune 500, sex education, and the occasional piece of Republican legislation.
Category Archives: Opinion
Istanbul Looking West: Art or Politics?
A Turkish festival mirrors the nation’s cultural crisis.
The Nation vs. National Review
A right-left debate on federal arts funding.
Subsidized Separatism: Responses to ‘The Ground on Which I Stand’
The debate continues in the wake of the address and its aftermath.
Mamet Vs. Mamet
He’s playwright, director, theorist—and his own worst enemy.
Addie’s Last Tape
A look at Steppenwolf’s new staging of Faulkner’s ‘As I Lay Dying.’
The Last Word
A playwright speculates on God’s theatrical opinions and other mysteries.
See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me
How the design team of ‘The Who’s Tommy’ reinvented a rock-and-roll classic.
The Performance of Mourning
The theatre of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, a traveling graveyard that combines monumentality with patchwork and reimagines the connection between politics and the sacred.
‘Waltz’ in Three Dimensions
What a viewing of 3 different productions of Paula Vogel’s second-generation AIDS play reveals about its essence and possibilities.
