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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. 9, November
Calamities through the Camera's Eye
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You've been thinking about Hiroshima. How could it be otherwise? The media onslaught marking the dark anniversary of that city's destruction has included an importunate array of 50-years-after articles and essays, television documentaries, a fictional...
Can Multiculturalism Save African-American Theater?
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In order to save African-American theatre, we black theatre practitioners need to build bridges and coalitions with anyone and everyone who shares our values. We must take the lead in being inclusive. We must seek the support of individuals and institutions,...
Chay Yew: The Importance of Being Verbal
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Chay Yew, the garrulous author of A Language of Their Own, is not one to mince words. "I know it's supposed to be an Asian thing, to be self-effacing and all that. But not me. I'd rather be shopping." Brimming with confidence after his play's much-praised...
Customizing Culture
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An interview with the playwright by Douglas Langworthy At one level or another, every American is an immigrant. Do you think there is a kind of schizophrenia at the heart of the American dream, an irreconcilable struggle to serve different gods? With...
Dining out on 'Swamp Gravy.' (Play)
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A custom-made theater poject stirs a sleepy Georgia town to life Colquitt doesn't look so different from the dozen or so small Georgia towns we've already driven through this warm fall morning. The town square has a quiet, deserted air. Its too-many...
Existing in the Present Tense
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In the meetings that led to TCG's 1988 publication of The Artistic Home, Garland Wright, then a TCG board member and artistic director of the Guthrie Theater, observed that discussions about the growth and needs of the American theatre cannot be trapped...
Fire and Water
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Claiming responsibility for their bold act of civil protest was supposed to be the easy part - all it would take would be a simple phone call. But none of the group of four African-American activists and their Jewish ally, gathered in a safehouse in...
Jeffrey Lunden and Arthur Perlman: Musical Blacksmiths in the Auto Age
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Most people write musicals because they love the musical theatre," lyricist-librettist Arthur Perlman says, almost offhandedly. "We fell in love with the musical theatre because we wrote musicals." Periman's comment - offered as a coda to a two-and-a-half-hour-long...
Kern Sails Another River
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Now that Show Boat is nestled comfortably for the foreseeable future in its Broadway berth, fans of the composer and lyricist will be happy to hear about the American premiere of a new Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical: Three Sisters. No, the...
Leaps of Faith: The Creation of 'Silence.' (Play)
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The strange thing about electricity is how its invisibility belies its power. One senses something palpable like that invisible power surging through the first day of rehearsal in the U.S. of Silence, a culture-bridging co-production of the Tokyo-based...
NEA's Future Let Dangling
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Agency takes 40 percent cut; new threat looms for nonprofits Agreeing to disagree, a House-Senate conference committee left the future existence of the National Endowment for the Arts hanging in the balance, while approving a $99.5-million budget for...
Samson on the St. Lawrence Seaway
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If you're depressed, what's the quickest way, short of drugs with Z sounds in them, to turn your life around? A new hairstyle, of course. After five days and seven shows at the sixth biennial Festival de Theatre des Ameriques in Montreal, I was feeling...
Santos and Santos
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The Characters Tomas Santos (Tommy): attorney from El Paso Mike Santos (Miguel, Michael, Mikey): Tomas' brother, attorney from El Paso Fernie Santos (Fernando, Negro): Tomas' brother, attorney from El Paso Vicky (Victoria): Fernie's wife Nena (Magdalena):...
Theater at the Crossroads
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In a time of uncertainty and change, theatre leaders revisit the 'Artistic Home' On a crisp weekend last March overlooking the Hudson River, more than 70 theatre professionals from across the country gathered in Tarrytown, N.Y. for a national think...
The Illusion of Sex
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Cross-dressing has become the theatre's trendiest trope. Doesn't anybody have a gender anymore? About the time elections in 1933 swept Hitler into power at the head of the National Socialist party, the German film industry released a light-hearted comedy...
The Perspective Puzzle
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Renaissance humanism remains among the greatest gifts the West has bestowed on the world. By clearing their lenses of accumulated dogma and superstition, artists and thinkers of the Renaissance were able to recast the world through the eyes, not of God,...
Tweaks and Twists in a French Tradition
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Much ink was spilt in advance of this year's Avignon Festival to decry the absence of any new work in the Cour d'honneur, the vast courtyard of the 14th-century Papal Palace. Jean Vilar began the festival in the Cour 48 years ago, and it has housed at...
Victor/Victoria: A New Queen on the Scene
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In Victor/Victoria - the latest addition to a body of Broadway musicals about female impersonators that also includes La Cage aux Folles ("I am what I am, and what I am is an illusion"), Kiss of the Spider Woman and Sugar, the stage version of Some Like...
