What’s Playing on Our National Stage
Our current political moment both evokes theatrical analogies and provokes theatrical responses.
All Stories About political theatre
Letters for January 2018: Politics and Criticism
Why one reader prefers Philly’s 1812 Productions to ‘SNL,’ and others fear for the future of criticism.
In Search of the Resistance
For artists like Double Edge Theatre, Jean Claude van Itallie, and Bread & Puppet Theatre, theatrical protest is a tradition, not a trend.
Staging a Resistance Holiday: Not My President’s Day
Inspired by a Facebook post by Holly Hughes, feminist performance artists plan creative protests for next Monday.
Our Roles in the Drama
‘Political theatre’ should not be an automatic putdown; both politics and theatre can lie or speak truth, depending on how they’re used.
Trial by Satire
American peace groups, West Germany’s Green Party and the Plutonium Players practice politics as theatre—in courtrooms, in the streets, on the six o’clock news.
Coming to Terms
American plays offer new truths about the collective trauma of Vietnam.
