Editor’s Note for January 2014
The issue includes a look at technical training, as well as reckonings with giants—Romeo Castellucci, Jerzy Grotowski, August Wilson, the WOW Cafe founders.
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The issue includes a look at technical training, as well as reckonings with giants—Romeo Castellucci, Jerzy Grotowski, August Wilson, the WOW Cafe founders.
At the seminal WOW Cafe and beyond, Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver have inspired generations of theatremakers with their seriously playful hybrid of vaudeville, drag, and postmodern appropriation.
Quiara Alegria Hudes discusses her new trilogy of plays, “Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue” (a Pulitzer Prize finalist), “Water By the Spoonful” (a Pulitzer winner) and “The Happiest Song Plays Last”.
When the Polish theatre guru came to teach in Irvine in the 1980s, he turned the group into a new experiment in mystery and discipline.
An excerpt from the new book, “The National Theatre Story” features the feud between Laurence Oliver and Peter Brook.
Controversial performer get his due after public scorn from the media and U.S. Congress.
Tazewell Thompson’s play is not just about Mary Todd Lincoln and her dressmaker Elizabeth Keckly, it’s also about the clothes that they wore.
When disaster strikes Louisiana, its artists step up to the plate with savvy and ingenuity.
The original Tom Wingfield in the 1945 premiere of Tennessee Williams’s breakthrough play recalls its rocky, bittersweet road to the Broadway stage.
The historic Saenger Theatre reemerges after Hurricane Katrina, NEA reports a study on national theatre attendance, Chicago Shakespeare Theater celebrates 25th anniversary, and more from December’s round-up of news items.