Stages
Openings, closures, and assorted plans from coast to coast.
Trial By Jury: Critics on the Stand?
Imagining a courtroom argument against, and a case for, fair and honest criticism.
Centerstage
A poem.
‘Unfair Competition’: Business Vs. Nonprofits
Is Tax-Exemption Still a Valid Concept?
In Verdi Veritas?
Updates on controversies and committees.
Betting on a Dark Horse
Is it hard to be a woman designer in the theatre? That the question keeps getting asked is part of the answer.
Trends
Equity battles across the pond, theatre/symphony collaboration, new rates for stock theatre.
Lyubimov in Exile
Comings and goings at theatres nationwide and globally.
Wilder’s Notations of the Heart
A review of ‘The Enthusiast: A Life of Thornton Wilder,’ by Gilbert A. Harrison, Ticknor & Fields, New York, NY. 403 pp, $19.95 cloth.
Goethe Redux
3 new collections of German playwrights Geothe, Dürrenmatt and Schiller.
