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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. 6, July-August
A Lens on Cuba's Past
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In poet-playwright Nilo Cruz's A Park in Our House, which recently premiered at San Francisco's Magic Theatre under Cruz's own direction, the author conjures an imag-istic, coming-of-age tale of a young boy who overcomes muteness to discover his own...
Atlanta's Olympic Moment: Homegrown Work Highlights Atlanta's Olympic Arts Festival
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Homegrown work highlights Atlanta's Olympic Arts Festival When Phylicia Rashad makes her entrance as a sensual Harlem nightclub singer in Pearl Cleage's Blues for an Alabama Sky - the engrossing Alliance Theatre production by one of a dozen local companies...
Blues for an Alabama Sky
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About the Playwright Pearl Cleage is a resident of Atlanta. Her plays, which include Flyin' West, Late Bus to Mecca, Chain, Hospice and Essentials have been produced at such theatres as Alliance Theatre Company, Just Us Theater Company, Women's Project...
Bohemians of the Moment
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Once upon a time - a time of intellectual and political ferment - disaffected youth abandoned their parents, their studies and their comfortable middle-class surroundings to congregate in low-rent districts, shun social convention and imbibe as freely...
David Gordon
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To most theatre people, David Gordon is known (if he's known at all) as a recent emigre from the world of dance. Here, for example, is the way a theatre critic for the Minneapolis Star Tribune identified Gordon when he directed a production of Max Frisch's...
Erasing the Distance
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Digital technology took center stage at Cross-Waves, a new annual festival devoted to the developing relationship between performance and technology, inaugurated in April by Philadelphia's American Music Theater Festival. Mixed-media performer Laurie...
Finishing the Play
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Young Playwrights Inc., a New York-based company that produces the work of playwrights aged 18 and under Off Broadway in the annual Young Playwrights Festival, recently celebrated its 15th anniversary season with a gala program, "A Conversation With...."...
'Happy Days' Is Here Again
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Samuel Beckett would have been 90 this year, and many theatres across the country will mount at least one of his plays in acknowledgment. Other companies are considerably more ambitious. In April and May, Chicago's Splinter Group presented 18 shows in...
How Thai Is It?
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What can you say about a show that prides itself on having more than three miles of gold tiles and one-and-a-half miles of beaded jewels? The producers boast that it is "an authentic Thai experience," a King and I for the age of political correctness....
Is Congress Easing Up on the NEA?
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Supporters hear the faint sounds of Republican hands clapping After a year that everyone connected with the National Endowment for the Arts would prefer to forget (which included a 39-percent cut in the agency's budget and the laying off of 89 staff...
Mamet Vs-Mamet: He's Playwright, Director, Theorist - and His Own Worst Enemy
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HE'S PLAYWRIGHT, DIRECTOR, THEORIST - AND HIS OWN WORST ENEMY "All that nonsense [Brecht] wrote about his writing I think is balderdash, a direct contradiction of the writing itself...All of the comics like me always want to be tragedians." - David...
Not out of Nowhere: A Breakthrough Musical's Developmental Odyssey
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It is, unhappily, an easy story to romanticize. Jonathan Larson's death and the impassioned response that has greeted his final work, one following so closely upon the other, have, inevitably, created a mythology. The deluge of photographs and news...
'Rent' Check
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Did the Author's Hyper-Romantic Vision Get Lost in the Media Uproar? John Istel, Stephanie Coen & Jonathan Larson himself take the measure of a theatrical phenomenon Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes Five hundred twenty-five...
The Arms of the Octopus
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The body of reporter Danny Casolaro was found on a Saturday afternoon in August 1991, reclined in the bathtub of a West Virginia hotel room. Both his arms were slashed, blood was everywhere and a scribbled note of apology lay nearby. Local police and...
The Plays Tell the Tale
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Humana is two decades old, and still surprising Stretched out on a series of connecting tables in the lobby of the Actors Theatre of Louisville was an entire library of plays: Pulitzer Prize - winners, steps in promising directions, forgotten names....
