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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. 6, July-August
20 Questions
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Peter DuBois directed you in Trust at Second Stage, and he's directing All New People. Can you tell me about your relationship with Peter? We just clicked. I got such a good sense that Peter and I have-very similar sensibilities. When this play...
'Ajax' in Guantanamo: An Ancient Story Wins Hearts and Minds at the World's Most Controversial Military Base
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SOMEONE IS SCREAMING AT ME IN HIGH-PITCHED Arabic. The thick glass partition to my left could probably stop a bullet, but it fails to block me and my fellow visitors from what my gut registers as either caustic threats or urgent pleas. I am undeniably...
Alexander "Sandy" Speer: 1943-2011
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* Sandy Specr had a glass-framed poster from World War II on his office wall opposite his desk. The print read, "Loose lips sink ships!", which he fervently believed. After contemplating the poster for 15 or 16 years, I asked him why it was off-center...
American Theatre's Publisher, Theatre Communications
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AMERIC AN THEATRE'S PUBLISHER, THEATRE COMMUNICATIONS Group, is turning 50. By the time you read this, an array of anniversary activities will have been announced al TCG's annual National Conference in Los Angeles. Part of the yearlong focus will be...
Around the World in 1001 Nights
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NO ALADDIN. NO ALI BABA OR 40 THIEVES. NO GENIES POPPING OUT OF MUCH-RUBBED LAMPS. THIS ONE THOUSAND and One Nights is "not a fantasy, not exotic. It is an urban folk story cycle, brutal, poetic and real" says Tim Supple, artistic director of London-based...
A Slovak Innovator Shines at 2011's Europe Theatre Prize Bash
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The iconic German director Peter Stein, winner of this year's Europe Theatre Prize--that continent's top theatrical honor, worth a whopping 60,000 euros--swept into St. Petersburg, Russia, in mid-April, halfway through an event-packed, week-long shindig...
Awards Blossom in NYC
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NEW YORK CITY: Something like consensus seemed to sweep through the city's awards-giving sector in April and May, those months when theatrical prizes become as pluckable as blooming narcissi. The profane but good-hearted Broadway mega-hit The Book...
Bilingual Bicycles: Two-Wheelers and Two Languages Hit the Road, Bringing Theatre to Parks
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WHAT EXACTLY DO PEOPLE MEAN WHEN THEY talk about "audience development"? The term often gets tossed around in grant applications and at theatre convenings and seems to drive at methods of attracting a younger, hipper, more ethnically diverse set of...
Cabins and Carter and Bears(oh My!)
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IN THE WINTER'S TALE, AFTER DESERTING THE king's supposed illegitimate daughter in the woods, a man loses his life via Shakespeare's most famous stage direction {Exit, pursued'by a bear). Playwright Lauren Gunderson used this violent suggestion to...
Ceremonious Cities
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As summertime approached, theatre communities from coast to coast tipped their hats to standouts of the past season. Below are highlights of recent ceremonies. For a searchable database of winners for these and other major regional awards, visit www.fcg.org/...
Counterfeit Camelot
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BROOKLYN, N.Y.: The sixyear-old Guerrilla Shakespeare Project, devoted to making the Bard's hoary old plays seem as fresh as if they were written yesterday, has gotten hold of one that was, more or less. It's The Most Excellent and Tragical Historic...
Digesting the Mega-Play: A Full Plate at Humana's All-You-Can-See Buffet
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I MAGINE THAT A MAJOR REGIONAL THEATRE I produced a mil season of exclusively brand-new plays--I genuine new-to-the-public debuts, not shows that have I seen stage time in smaller venues and can only technically I (or contractually) be considered "premieres."...
Dissolving the Barriers: Theatre Professionals Discuss Strategies for Bringing Artists, Institutions and Communities Closer Together
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In A POINTILLIST PAINTING, DOTS OF COLOR coalesce to form an image. A similar process is at work in this country's cultural sphere, where myriad I organizations and creative individuals make up the 1 entity we call the American theatre. Since its...
El Nogalar
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CHARACTERS [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] MAITE: The matriarch of the Galvan family, returning to Los Nogales after a 15-year absence. VALERIA: Make's oldest daughter from her first marriage. Had spent most of her life at boarding school and university...
Hallways of Memory: Odysseus' Journey Wends a Half-Mile through a Senior-Care Facility
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IT'S A CHILL AND DREARY SPRING DAY IN Milwaukee, but it's warm inside Luther Manor Health Center, an elderly-care complex that sprawls over the flat landscape of the city's northwest side, a slightly tarnished, middle-class bedroom community dotted...
I Can See My Father from Here: The Political Is Intensely Personal in Jonathan Moscone and Tony Taccone's 'Ghost Light'
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1 POLITICS HAVE ALWAYS LEFT CALIFORNIA SHAKE- speare Theater artistic director Jonathan Moscone profoundly ambivalent. His name is enough to suggest why- As a teenager he lost his father, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone, to an act of political violence...
Inside the Violence: An Interview with the Playwright
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Many of your plays take place on the border between the U.S. and Mexico, but El Nogalar is the first one that takes place on the Mexican side. What inspired you to cross the border? And how was the experience different from writing plays set on the...
Joining Forces: When Theatre Artists and Military Personnel Come Together, Assumptions on Both Sides Are Transformed
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THIS PAST WINTER, I WAS INVITED BY PRODUCER Mark Russell to participate in a "speed-dating" event for presenters attending the Under the Radar festival in New York City. I was there to talk about ReEntry, a play I directed and co-wrote (with Emily...
Lanford Wilson: 1937-2011
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* Here's how Lanford Wilson found the Caffe Cino, where his long and distinguished playwriting career began. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It was July of 1961 or '62. '62.1 was living at 25 West 83rd Street, right off Central Park West, with my lover...
On Artistry
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In June, Theatre Communications Group kicked off a yearlong celebration of its 50th anniversary. Throughout this year, TCG will explore and celebrate four core values that are important to its own work and to the work of the theatre field: Artistry,...
Soaring Melodies
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* Weston, VT. "SO YOU FELL OUT OF THE SKY, TOO." THUS SPEAKS THE EARNEST young title character of The Little Prince to the book's narrator, a pilot who has crash-landed in a desert. Author Antoine de Saint-Exupery knew a thing or two about the dangers...
State of the Artists
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Looking at TCG's 2011 Survey For 35 years, TCG has consistently tracked and measured data about theatre organizations, but had not yet undertaken a large-scale study focusing on artists and theatres. In her November 2009 American Theatre column...
The Mystery of Irma Vep Arizona Theatre Company
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PHOTOGRAPHS BY TIM FULLER David Ira Goldstein, DIRECTION: This was the fourth time I've directed Irma Vep, and the challenge this time was doing it in a big, 800-seat theatre while trying to maintain that all-important sense that the actors are...
The Quick-Change Artist: Diane Paulus Has Wasted No Time Revamping Art's Outlook and Aesthetic-And Generating Buzz and Backlash
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AS DREAM JOBS GO, DIANE PAULUS ALWAYS KNEW hers was a bit quixotic. It was in 1991, when she was an aspiring young actor living in New York City, just a few years removed from her undergrad days at Harvard, that Paulus first articulated her vision...
This Is Not Your Mama's Game Show
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BROOKLYN, N.Y.: The neighborhood of Williamsburg may best be known for ironic mustaches, skinny jeans and bangs. But the scrappy Brick Theater might soon be attracting a differently styled crowd to the hipster enclave. Game Play, a celebratory festival...
Three Steps Ahead
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NATIONWIDE: While Todd London was writing Outrageous Fortune, the provocative 2009 book about the parlous state of American playwriting, he was also quietly overseeing an antidote. As artistic director of New York's New Dramatists, London helped to...
United in Artistry
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IN THE FIRST HALF OF THIS YEAR, THE WORLD'S attention was grabbed by the new potential for transformation I in the Middle East. And while there is a profound sense of unity that comes from joint efforts to topple repressive regimes, I various forms...
Write What You Don't Know
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PHILADELPHIA: An electric baby, a prodigal rock star and a talking wall: All these and more descend on Philadelphia this summer, populating the rich worlds of six plays in development at the PlayPenn New Play Development Conference. "They're all incredible...
Wroclaw, Poland
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BRAVE FESTIVAL: Song of the Goat Theatre of Poland's artistic director, Grzesmrz Bral, is not a fan of theatre festivals, particularly "the ever-present, dominating formula" he believes they nearly inevitably employ. Festivals tend to "reduce authors'...
