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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. 12, No. 7, September
An Armenian Tapestry
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Every ethnic group writes its own history - sometimes in large, indelible letters - across the memories of its descendants. History can be communicated as storytelling, although sometimes a generation or two away from a homeland must pass before stories...
Anee Keefe: War Stories from a Stage Manager
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Preshow Setting: A rainy July evening. Backstage at the Belasco Theatre, Anne Keefe readies herself to call Hamlet's cues. Production stage manager Keefe has been doing this job for close to 30 years, 23 of them at New Haven, Connecticut's Long Wharf...
Back over the Rainbow
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The woman singing from the wings sounds more than a little like Aretha Franklin. When she walks on stage, the first of seven actresses to appear in the author-directed revival of Ntozake Shange's for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the...
'Big Wind' Blows across Asia
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A grand-scale people's theatre collaboration tests the mettle of artists, Eastern and Western Pathan, Nepal August 1993 Dear Joan: Come as soon as you can: The situation is difficult but very exciting. We need Ellen to bring the money. We are staying...
Chris Jasczak: Producing to Fill a Void
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As dusk falls over downtown Detroit, the city grows eerily calm. Most of the office workers have fled to the 'burbs. A panhandler is the only human being in sight for blocks. But at 1515 Broadway, a former arts-supply store turned black-box theatre...
Deja Vu All over Again
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As a young man living in New York City, Guthrie Theater artistic director Garland Wright once flipped through a book of photographs in the Coliseum Book Store near Columbus Circle. His eyes fell upon a black-and-white photo of a man in a trenchcoat and...
Earth Mom
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Maybe it's Olympia Dukakis's Greek heritage that puts her in touch with the primal rhythms of the spheres AN INTERVIEW WITH OLYMPIA DUKAKIS In 1994 the entire city of San Francisco was seduced by a minute-long commercial for Tales of the City, a controversial...
George Tabori Tramps through the 20th Century
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In a small plain room tucked away in the upper reaches of Vienna's majestic Burgtheater, a slight and somewhat grizzled gentleman breaks into a wide-mouthed grimace as his shoulders shake with silent laughter. As George Tabori, the 80-year-old Hungarian-born...
Junior Republicans Lead NEA Assault
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Calls for eliminating the agency are rebuffed, but crippling cuts appear certain The fate of the National Endowment for the Arts, while not quite sealed, was defined by the 104th Congress's ongoing quest to slash the federal budget throughout the long...
Put 92 Directors in a Room
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That's what Lincoln Center Theater did, in an innovative developmental effort Hire a fabulous actor to play Mercutio and leave him alone," said Mark Lamos, in a tone that brooked no contradiction. "Casting Mercutio is just as important as casting Romeo...
Randy Danson: Classical Meditations
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Randy Danson is no stranger to serious theatregoers across the country. New Yorkers remember her as Libby, the loopy hostess missing a tooth in the original production of Blue Window or, more recently, as Irina, the bus-driving Romanian mother in Mad...
Theater Community Bids Zeisler 'So Long.' (Theater Communications Group Exec. Dir. Peter Zeisler Retires)
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With fanfare and salutations, some of the leading figures in the American theatre gathered on June 12 at Lincoln Center in New York to honor Peter Zeisler, longtime executive director of Theatre Communications Group, who retired June 30 after 23 years...
Why They're Baring It All
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Is there more to the current wave of male nudity than audience titillation? The current proliferation of male nudity on New York stages has not gone unnoticed by the theatregoing public or the press - the phenomenon has been breathlessly reported in...
Wilson's 'Hamlet': The Arithmetic of Memory
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A man, dressed in black, holds a skull in his upraised hand. He is, of course, Hamlet. But this Hamlet wears a finely-tailored suit, and what he holds in his hand is in actuality a sphere - made perhaps of rusting iron or aged rock - which he will, in...
