How Lili Taylor Caught Wallace Shawn’s ‘Fever’
She may be alone onstage for the performance, but she contains—and reflects—multitudes.
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She may be alone onstage for the performance, but she contains—and reflects—multitudes.
This month, a talk with with a playwriting legend, whose most apocalyptic recent works are being released this week as podcasts.
When Mac Rogers and I met our playwriting hero, Wallace Shawn, we were honored—and confronted anew with his devastating plays.
The legendary director has had a Zelig-like journey through the culture, from regional theatre to Hollywood, Strasberg to Grotowski.
When the familiar seems strange and vice versa, writers who have grasped that dichotomy seem all the more necessary.