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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. 13, No. 7, September
Agreement Not Required
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Since Theatre Communications Group held its 10th biennial conference in 1994, the American economy has become more global, our politics increasingly volatile and our society more addicted to perpetual change. As the permanence of crisis becomes a condition...
Albee and Me
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As a member for three decades of Edward Albee's theatrical family, MARIAN SELDES is on intimate terms with the writer and the provocative women of his plays. "Edward, I've been asked by American Theatre to write about you." "How nice." We sat in a...
Awake and Paint!
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Clifford Odets's fantastical canvases unleash his undramatized demons In the mid-1940s, when things were not going particularly well professionally for Clifford Odets, the playwright and screenwriter took up two sidelines - he became both a collector,...
Buried Child
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The Characters Dodge, in his seventies Halie, Dodge's wife. Mid-sixties Tilden, their oldest son Bradley, their next oldest son, an amputee Vince, Tilden's son Shelly, Vince's girlfriend Father Dewis, a Protestant minister ACT ONE Scene: day. Old...
Don't Wave Bye-Bye to Gay Drama Yet
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Seattle Times theatre critic Misha Berson caused a stir last spring when, reporting on Alice B. Theatre's financial woes, she wrote, "...let's talk turkey: Does Seattle really need a theatre devoted to gay visions anymore?" Berson argued that since...
Election Season Do's and Don't's
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For all of the socially-conscious people in the nonprofit arts world who have gotten involved in the political arena, there are others who are scared to death of overstepping legal boundaries and possibly losing their 501(c)(3) status. The rules can...
Every Letter Is a Soapbox
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David Moreland sits on a bench, hands on lap, face resigned, a white man gently delivering a moving monologue about being a black woman in an overwhelmingly white town. Isabel Tarr sits five rows from the stage, tears welling at the sound of her pain....
Exemption Extinction? What Happens When a Public Good Is Subject to a Free Market?
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A new threat has shown up on Capitol Hill, with implications that are far more sweeping and troubling than any of the other battles that have been fought on behalf of the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities and...
For the Love of Odets
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There's a new man in Joanne Woodward's life. Don't jump to conclusions - she and Paul Newman are still together. But Woodward, who has been developing a career as a director, has displayed an uncommon affection in the past year for Clifford Odets. ...
Girls like Us
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She may have a bladder the size of a peanut, and even though, according to her maid, she puts out like a gumball machine ("You drop somethin' in; she'll put somethin' out"), Miss Trixie Delight, the haplessly carnal - or is it carnally hapless? - carnival...
How to Talk Buffalo
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Twenty-one years after it galvanized critics and audiences in its premiere at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, David Mamet's American Buffalo has been filmed by director Michael Corrente. In the introduction to the recently republished text (Grove/Atlantic),...
Inside the Tent
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Issues of race, money and the vitality of art fuel four days of discussion at TCG's 11th National Conference Two provocative addresses - one by Pulitzer-winning playwright August Wilson on the imperiled state of African-American theatre, the other by...
Just Diversions
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No major revivals, no movie, no CD soundtrack: Even the cockiest of musical theatre buffs have trouble remembering Two Gentlemen of Verona, winner of the 1971 Tony and Drama Critics Circle awards for best musical. Adapted from Shakespeare by John Guare...
Kim Hunter
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Stella by Starlight She is best known for her wildly dissimilar roles in two films that have achieved classic status - the sensuous Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) and the simian Dr. Zira in Planet of the Apes (1968) and its first two sequels...
Robert Wilson and Lou Reed Make Music in Hamburg
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Theatregoers in Germany's northern port city of Hamburg can't seem to get enough these days of Robert Wilson, whose newest piece of music theatre, Time Rocker, opened in June at the Thalia Theater. Appetites had already been whetted by the recent return...
Shaw Thing
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As scholars are claiming discovery of an unknown Shakespeare sonnet, it is tempting to trumpet this production of Smash (at the Intiman Theatre in Seattle through Sept. 7) as the world premiere of a "lost" George Bernard Shaw drama. But Smash, whose...
The Ground on Which I Stand
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The fertile traditions of black theatre have come to flower in a landscape of inequity and diminishing possibilities. AUGUST WILSON makes an impassioned case for change. I have come here today to make a testimony, to talk about the ground on which...
The Trouble with Cobb County
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In Barbara Lebow's 'Stories, 'political adversaries share the stage Cobb County is a study in multiple personality disorder," declares a character in Cobb County Stories, delivering a fitting metaphor for both the fractured and fractious Georgia county...
The Wheel That Can't Be Stopped
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Indiana Repertory Theatre launches its 25th season this month with an adaptation about adaptation. Booth Tarkington's epic 1919 novel The Magnificent Ambersons - a Pulitzer Prize-winner that examines one American family's maladjustment to the modern...
The Writer in a Brave New World
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For not-for-profit theatres and their artistic communities across North America, the signs of chill are by now depressingly familiar: shrinking public and private sponsorship, politically motivated attacks on artistic freedom, a declining audience, competition...
Things at Stake Here
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An interview with the playwright by Stephanie Coen In a 1983 interview, you called Buried Child "verbose and overblown" and "unnecessarily complicated." Is it still something of a problem play for you? No, not any more. I think I solved it. (Laughter.)...
Wendy Knox
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Let's Be Frank Smart theatre, that's what I'm after - theatre with brains. Somehow you've got to get that into your article," declares Wendy Knox, artistic director and torchbearer for Frank Theatre, Minneapolis's most renegade small theatre company....
