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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. 10, No. 9, September
A Critic in Every Port: Familiar Dangers
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MUNICH: Politics were mostly absent both on and off the stage at Theater der Welt, Germany's biennial international festival of performance, held this year in Munich. Home of sunny weather, green parks, packed beergardens and well-heeled bank employees,...
A Critic in Every Port: Food and Water
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LONDON: Discovering the links between spiritual grace and grocery shopping; reliving Ireland's sectarian violence in the company of a band of mummers; plunging waist-deep in 224 tons of water with Vietnamese puppeteers manipulating a water buffalo:...
A Critic in Every Port: Foreign Bodies
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VIENNA: The expatriates here raise their eyebrows when the Viennese refer to their city as the cultural capital of Europe. Yet, as Claus Peymann, artistic director of the rejuvenated Burgtheater has noted, in what other city does the theatre capture...
A Critic in Every Port: O Brave New France
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MONTREAL: <<Dites-leurs "bonjour"!>> (Welcome them!) ran the slogan on Board of Tourism billboards and subway placards all over Montreal during this summer's sixth Festival de Theatre des Ameriques. Even the weather complied, as the early...
An Artist, at Last, at NEA's Helm
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Poets, Shelley wrote, are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. In this century, though, poets and artists are demanding political acknowledgement. Vaclav Havel was president of Czechoslovakia. Novelist Mario Vargas Llosa ran for president of...
Art for Artaud's Sake
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The ideas of Antonin Artaud have infected and transformed the modern theatre. His tract The Theatre and Its Double stands alongside the writings of Stanislavsky and Brecht as a canonical work of 20th-century theatrical theory. But during his brief...
Don't Tell Mother
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JoAnne Akalaitis bristles when I suggest that Jane Bowles's In the Summer House reminds me of a Tennessee Williams play. "First of all, Tennessee Williams is a man, and this writer is writing about the central conflict between mothers and daughters...
Elsinore in Ashes. (Theater in Former Yugoslavia)
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Every generation, Jan Kott argues in his seminal work Shakespeare Our Contemporary, should have its own Hamlet. For Kott and his generation, that Hamlet was a figure of the mid-century, a Hamlet in conflict with Stalinism. In fact, different environments...
From 52nd Street to Virginia Avenue
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Sun streams through the floor-to-ceiling windows of the Santa Monica Police Activities League, brightening the face of 14-year-old Stevie as he offers an imaginary gift to his friend Mike, who is turning 10 today. "I give you a pill to turn anything...
Issey Ogata: As Funny as Japan Gets
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The theatre writers in Tokyo's English newspapers started to call Issey Ogata a Japanese Woody Allen nine months ago, when he began the build-up to his American debut in New York. Ever since his first special show for an English-speaking audience last...
Kathleen McGhee-Anderson: Categorical Denial
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Playwright Kathleen McGhee-Anderson actively defies categorization. She has written successfully for theatre, film and television, crossed with ease the line between drama and comedy, and created an unusual literary voice which combines pure theatricality...
Memories of a Revolution. (Revival of Art and Culture in Ukraine)
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Pity the nation that has lost its voice. Ukraine gained political independence in 1991 upon the collapse of the U.S.S.R. but inherited a shattered culture due to centuries of autocratic rule and political repression. Fortunately, cultural heritage...
NEA Announces New Slate of Grants
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The National Endowment for the arts announced in July a total of $7.2 million in grants to 231 professional theatre companies for the 1993-94 performance season. The grants, awarded under the Theater Program's Professional Theater Companies category,...
NEA Weathers Attack but Takes Cut
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In what has become practically an annual ritual, the House of Representatives passed the 1994 Interior Appropriations Bill in mid-July after staving off an amendment that would have eliminated the National Endowment for the Arts entirely--but not before...
On Partnerships: Every Duet Is Different. (Theater Communications Group)
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The partnership between an artistic director and managing director becomes dysfunctional if one person is supposed to light the spark and the other to contain it," observed Jack O'Brien, artistic director of San Diego's Old Globe Theatre. Addressing...
Past Imperfect
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The 1960s are not dead, at least not for some holdouts in Maubeuge, a small town two hours out of Paris. There on a cold weekend last April, numerous international theatre folk celebrated the momentous decade by eating a sumptuous five-hour meal while...
Paul Slabolepszy: Coming of Age in the Cradle of Apartheid
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As a 12-year-old schoolboy, Paul Slabolepszy, one of South Africa's most outspoken anti-apartheid playwrights, had his first encounter with political protest. Raised in a conservative, rural town and educated at a segregated Catholic boarding school,...
Psyched Out
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Seattle's Alice B. calls itself "a gay and lesbian theatre for all people." Nothing the group has produced in its nine-year history better exemplifies what that phrase might mean than Sub Rosa. Sub Rosa started out with writer-director Nikki Appino's...
Scoundrels in a Funhouse
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It's extremely aggressive, it's very mean-spirited, the people are vicious to each other," confesses Garland Wright of Too Clever by Half, the Russian comedy that has opened the Guthrie Theater's 30th season. He does not offer this critique by way...
The Aristotelian Hacker. (Role of Theater in the Mass Media)
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What place can live theatre possibly hold in the 500-channel, multimedia-interactive, digital entertainment future? Prophecies of the high-tech millennium tend to divide theatre artists into several camps: those who want to get their hands on futuristic...
The Tourism Connection
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All over the country, arts groups are forming partnerships with the tourism industry to tap into a growing source of income and audiences. This growing role of the arts in tourism is demonstrated in cities such as San Diego, where the San Diego...
They Might Be Elves
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Afternoon of the Elves, Y York's new play adapted from the novel by Janet Taylor Lisle, tells a remarkable story about two girls, their parents, and the backyards which embody their vastly different lives and personal views of the world. It poses a...
Thinking about Tomorrow
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When Zelda Fichandler and Ricardo Khan were elected president and vice president of the Theatre Co Group board last spring, they agreed that their partnership, which spans two generations of theatre, a strong sense of national community that recognizes...
Three Hotels
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About Jon Robin Balts Jon Robin Baitz was born in Los Angeles and now lives in New York City. He i Society (1987), presented at Los Angeles Theatre Center, London's Hampstead Theatre Club and Second The Substance of Fire (1991), presented at Playwrights...
Under the Psychic Knife
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In Spalding Gray's newest monologue Gray's Anatomy--a work in progress currently touring the country--the existentialist storyteller turns his high-powered, introspective lens on his own body ailments. The main topic is an injury to Gray's left eye--a...
Wordschmidt
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the translator, the actor and the poet are of imagination all compact--at least for Paul Schmidt they are. A true renaissance man of the theatre, Schmidt seems anomalous in our late 20th-century world of micro-specialization: a poet who translates,...
