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American Theatre
American Theatre is a magazine containing news, features and opinions on American and international theatre. Published six times a year by the Theatre Communications Group, this periodical was founded in 1984.Subjects for American Theatre include drama and theatre. Nicole Estvanik Taylor is the Managing Editor and Jim O' Quinn is the Editor-in-Chief.
Articles from Vol. 19, No. 6, July-August
A.M. Sunday. (Playscript). <Subdivision>(theater review)</Subdivision>
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ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT Jerome Hairston, originally from Yorktown, Virginia, received his BA from James Madison University and is a recent graduate of Columbia University's MFA playwriting program. He was featured twice in the Young Playwrights Festival...
Around the Country. (Awards &Amp; Prizes).(Brief Article)
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The Theatre Hall of Fame presented its 2001 Founder's Award to Tom Dillon, president of the Actors' Fund. In addition to heading the only not-for-profit organization in the U.S. dedicated to performing artists' social welfare, Dillon is a longtime...
Better Late Than Never: After 60 Years, Zora Neale Hurston's Flavorful Polk County Comes to Life. (Critic's Notebook)
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For years, copies of Zora Neale Hurs work collected dust, often in academic repositories under the care of scholars with little interest in the theatre. Blame it partly on the fact that, although the Harlem Renaissance author had written an estimated...
Brecht on Acid? (San Rafael, Calif.).(1001 Arabian Nights) <Subdivision>(theater review)</Subdivision>
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So, did you hear the one about the guy who walks into the theatre to perform the story of a wandering merchant? He's the one who tells the story about Scheherezade telling stories to her husband about a boy telling a story to the genie about the...
Carl Djerassi from Pill to Quill: An Award-Winning Chemist Takes His Science to the Stage. (Profiles)
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It's 11:30 on a Saturday morning and Carl Djerassi, professor of chemistry at Stanford University, is gesticulating dramatically in front of a giant projected image of a human penis. Exchanging wisecracks with a young female colleague from the human...
Cootie Shots: Tolerance on Trial? (Trends &Amp; Events).(Brief Article)
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Last March, a group of parents in Novato, Calif., sued their school district for allowing their children to attend a performance of Cootie Shots: Theatrical Inoculations Against Bigotry for Kids, Parents and Teachers. Designed to discourage all...
Editor's Note
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It was probably Tray S.D.'s flavorful article on Nashville, Tenn.--the second in our ongoing series called On the Scene, which aims to capture the distinctive qualities of theatre and theatre makers in various American communities--that set me to...
Golden in the Golden State. (Awards &Amp; Prizes).(Brief Article)
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CALIFORNIA: Small was beautiful to the L.A. Drama Critics Circle: the West Coast pundits distributed a bevy of awards to theatres with fewer than 100 seats. Leading the pack were Greenway Court Theatre's They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, Deaf West...
Gray Matters. (Columbus, Ohio).(International Senior Theatre Festival and Conference)(Brief Article)
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AS BOTOX INJECTIONS MAKE furrowed brows an endangered species on stage and screen, one theatre festival is set to reclaim the value of wrinkles. This August, 750 older adults will gather in Columbus, Ohio, for the first International Senior Theatre...
Hard Times. (from the Executive Director).(Brief Article)
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Many of our member theatres are now closing the books on yet another fiscal year--a year of unprecedented difficulties for the field. In the wake of world events and a depressed national economy, TCG took the unusual step of surveying our members...
In Praise of Intercultural Performance. (Letters to the Editor)
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Rising with the rest of the audience at New York's Japan Society in April 2002 to cheer Akira Kasai's inspired Pollen Revolution, I wondered at the stupidity and narrow-mindedness of Michael Kustow's ill-informed rejection of what he calls "theatrical...
Irene Worth: 1916-2002. (in memoriam).(Obituary)
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Irene Worth's last errand, before she suffered the stroke that ended her life, was a trip to the post office near her apartment in the West 50s in New York City. Was it to mail something she had written? To send a book she had discovered--or rediscovered--to...
ITI Library to Move to Lincoln Center. (News from TCG).(International Theatre Institute)(Brief Article)
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When producers Gordon Davidson, Robert Marx and Kenneth Brecher were researching international theatre companies as potential invitees to the 1984 Olympics Art Festival, they turned to the library of the International Theatre Institute/U.S., then...
Managing the Future. (Trends &Amp; Events).(Managing Theatres of Color)(Brief Article)
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* Aggressively increase individual and private donations, while becoming less dependent on government and foundation grants. * Redesign the constituency of your board--lure only those members who will actively advocate and fundraise for the organization....
New York. (Awards &Amp; Prizes)
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Kicking off awards season last April--almost two months prior to the Tony ceremonies on June 2--the 17th annual Lucille Lortel Awards, presented by the League of Off-Broadway Theatres and Producers, feted playwright Edward Albee with a lifetime...
Rebecca Rice: 1947-2002. (in Memoriam).(Obituary)
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On a brisk Monday night in April, about 200 friends, colleagues and family gathered at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., to pay tribute to Rebecca Rice--actor, writer, activist and director--who had died suddenly three days after Easter after undergoing...
Side by Side by Side: As the Kennedy Center Lines Up Six Stephen Sondheim Productions in a Star-Spangled Retrospective, the Maestro Candidly Assesses His Accomplishments-And Confesses to Some Aspirations unfulfilled.(Interview)
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THIS IS AMERICA'S SONDHEIM SUMMER. Through the final days of August, the nation's capital will remain a destination point for musical-theatre aficionados from around the world, as the Kennedy Center throws its considerable resources behind an...
Splendor in the Grass: A Quirky Festival Celebrates Theatre-And William Inge-In the Heart of Rural Kansas. (Connections)
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Once we find the fruits of success," the playwright William Inge wrote ruefully in 1958, "the taste is nothing like what we had anticipated." Life was no picnic for the author of Picnic, who anticipated--and endured--many emotional ups and downs...
Take Me Home, Country Road: Theatre Carves a Niche for Itself in the Hometown on the Grand Ole Opry. (on the Scene: Nashville)
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Nashville has multiple-personality disorder. On the one hand, it is the "Buckle of the Bible Belt," the capital of the Christian publishing industry, with a skyline dominated by churches. On the other, it is the international capital of country...
The Education of Dael Orlandersmith: At a Turning Point in Her Career, a Poet-Turned-Playwright Is Still Learning from Her Past
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THE INTERVIEW IS WINDING DOWN AND PLAYWRIGHT Dael Orlandersmith starts talking about her love of rock music and vinyl records. Realizing the interviewer is a sonic soul mate, Orlandersmith--whose new play Yellowman was a Pulitzer Prize finalist...
Tony Bouquets Go to Millie as Best Musical and the Goat as Best Play. (Awards &Amp; Prizes).(Brief Article)
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ONE OF THE PECULIARITIES OF THIS SEASON'S TONY competition was that the conservative choice for best play was the one about having sex with a goat. By honoring veteran playwright Edward Albee for his dark comedy of human aberration, The Goat, or...
Twenty questions.(Brian Stokes Mitchell)(Brief Article)(Interview)
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Brian Stokes Mitchell has appeared on broadway in ragtime and King Hedley II and received a Tony for kiss me, Kate. He spoke to American Theatre before hopping a plane to Washington, D.C., to play the title role in Sweeney Todd as part of the Kennedy...
