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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. 28, No. 10, December
20 Questions
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I read that you had to be persuaded not to play Adam in the New York City production is it exciting finally playing this role? I wouldn't say I had to be persuaded not to. It was Jenny Gersten, former artistic director at Naked Angels [which produced...
A High-Impact Year
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NOTHER YEAR IS RACING TO THE FINISH LINE, and what a ride it has been! Here at TCG, we launched our 50(th) anniversary with record-breaking attendance at the National Conference in Los Angeles.' The theatre community embraced an exploration the question...
A Mammoth Change
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company may be thirty something now (31, to be precise), but it's not too late for a makeover. Over the past year, a task force composed of Woolly staff and board members met to examine the past and future of...
Avid Barbour, the Author of This Issue's Feature
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story about the proliferation of projections in theatrical design (page 28), has some great backstage stories to tell. After a sprint through the early history of the technology--which, he figures, dates back to the invention of the magic lantern in...
Dayton Itself
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DAYTON, OH.: The Human Race Theatre Company had the routine down. For 10 years now, its Theatre In Context education program, developed with the local company Muse Machine, has toured self contained shows to area schools, both to prepare school audiences...
Dirt and Dreams: Director/playwright Will MacAdams Was an Artist in Search of Community. Then He Found Warwick
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IT'S 6 A.M. ON AUG. 2 AND WILL MACADAMS IS behind the wheel of a beat-up van headed to Warwick, a rural town on the border of New York and New Jersey. "We have to leave early, otherwise we'll hit traffic and won't have as good a chance of catching...
Edward Hastings: 1931-2011
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When Edward Hastings died at 80 this past July, the theatre lost one of its finest directors and the last of the founding directors of San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater. Although well known for his many exceptional productions of contemporary...
Fahrenheit 451: Round House Theatre
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Sharon Ott, DIRECTION; The design process for this production took about two years. All of the designers were professors and students from the departments of production design, sound design, motion media, film - and animation at the Savannah College...
Femme at the Top
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"I PRAY TO GOD YOU NEVER GET hold of my life and place it at the mercy of your pen," says Elizabeth I to William Shakespeare in Timothy Findley's Elizabeth Rex. Having no fear of the Tower, Findley created a historical fantasia in which Elizabeth spends...
Jo Carson: 1946-2011
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"Don't make good potato salad," she told vie, "it's too hard to make and you'll have to take something every time you get invited somewhere. Just cook up beans; people eat them too." -Motherly wedding advice from Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet,...
O'Neill, Lost and Found
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IT COULD BE THE SCENARIO FOR A EUGENE O'NEILL PLAY, AND IN A SENSE it is--but one that O'Neill never wrote: SCENE: Screenwriter Philip Yordan's 50-foot-long library, where bookcases, filing cabinets and boxes spill remnants of his life. His widow,...
Queer Directions
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NEW YORK CITY: "For 10 years I didn't make work with specific queer content," says filmmaker Ira Sachs. "The lack of any institutional and economic support for queer artwork had a significant effect on those choices." To redress that lack, Sachs...
See What Sticks: Lydia R. Diamond and 'Stick Fly,' Both Already Successful throughout the U.S., Finally Arrive on Broadway
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SHORTLY BEFORE REHEARSALS BEGAN FOR HER Broadway debut--a new production of Stick Fly, slated to open Dec. 8 at the Cort Theatre--Lydia R. Diamond took a one-day trip from her home in Boston to conduct a workshop in playwriting for 50 or so New York...
Soaring Shakespeare
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IN A SHAKESPEARE PLAY, IT'S EXPECTED THAT there will be things flying: usually dialogue, hearts and swords. Rarely is it that the characters themselves are flying, though, which makes the upcoming production Henry V (On Trapeze) one for the birds....
Stocking Stuffers: The AT Staff Rounds Up Gift Ideas for All Kinds of Theatre Lovers on Your Holiday Shopping List
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BARD GAMES By Victor L. Cann, itlustrations by David Smith. Tytor trade Pblishing, Lanham, MO. 2011 128. pp., s11 95 oaoer. A deceptively thin Shakespeare quiz book, Bard Games is a toughie sure to level even the nerdiest of theatre geeks. In...
The Ashes
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Reality Shows An interview with the playwright BY YOUNG JEAN LEE At the top of this script there's an author's note that it should he played without any irony, as sincerely as possible. That note is at the top of all your plays. Why? [ILLUSTRATION...
The Magician's Tale: The Trick for These Performers Is Using Illusion to Tell a Story
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A conjurer is not a juggler; he is an actor playing the part of a magician.--Jean Robert-Houdin ONA BRIGHT AFTERNOON IN EARLY AUGUST, around 70 professional magicians crammed into a windowless, 60-seat room at the Magic Castle, an exclusive Hollywood-based...
The Parent Trap: How to Hold on to Theatregoers with Young Children? Offer Them Sitters along with Their Seats
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IN THEIR SEEMINGLY PERPETUAL WORRY about the graying of their audiences, theatres lately have sought to turn young people into habitual ticket-buyers with creative pricing schemes and special events. But you can lure all the hip young singles and couples...
The Prevalence of Projections: Projection in the Theatre Is Nearly as Old as Theatre Itself, but Recent Technological Advances Have Made It Easier to Use-And Misuse
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IF YOU'VE EMERGED FROM THE THEATRE recently wondering what happened to the scenery and where all that imagery came from, you're not alone: Welcome to the age of projections. For years the fifth wheel of theatre-design disciplines, projections have...
This Time It's Personal
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SINCE HIS RIVETING TRIAL IN ISRAEL 50 YEARS ago, Adolf Eichmann has been seared into the minds of millions as the Nazi in the glass booth--a defiant war criminal inside a bulletproof chamber, insisting that he was only following orders in helping to...
Triple Threats: Emily Mann and Chay Yew Write and Direct Plays, and They Run Theatres. Not Necessarily in That Order
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THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD STAGE HAS SEEN theatres run by actors, producers, directors and that relatively recent creation, the artistic director. But apart from Moliere and Brecht, one species of theatremaker we haven't typically-seen at the helm of...
Women of the Word: For a Quarter Century, a Sisterhood of Performers Has Crisscrossed the Globe Sharing Potent Doses of Art and Encouragement
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I AM SEATED WITH 60 PEOPLE, PREDOMINANTLY women, in a black box theatre in Cardiff, Wales, writing down my dreams. Two dreams, to be exact--followed by concrete actions I can undertake that will manifest them in my life. Provocateur composer/singer...
Yahia Yaich-Amnesia
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YAHIA YAICH--AMNESIA: Since its debut in Tunis in April 2010, the play Yahia Yaich--Amnesia has begun touring major European festivals and houses. The production was created by Tunisia's Familia Productions, the theatre and film company of actor/writer...
