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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. 24, No. 8, October
20 Questions
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Italian playwright and critic Mario Fratti (adapter of the Tony-winning musical Nine) celebrated his 80th birthday this year with the release of two collections of his dramas, one in Europe and the other, Unpredictable Plays, in the U.S. Fratti welcomed...
An Elephant of an Initiative
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AROUND THE COUNTRY: It calls itself an elephant--but its tentacles are octopus-like. Seven new nonprofit organizations have joined a national consortium dedicated to the development of new Broadway-style musicals. Headed by Stuart Oken as CEO, Michael...
A Place of Serious Revelation: Wynn Handman's Quest for a New American Theatre
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"There is a plethora of entertainment," the handwritten notes begin. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] While they are rolling down the hill, Americans are entertaining themselves to death. Movies, TV, Ball Games, stupid records, Bowling etc. and BROADWAY....
Artistic Medium: Lee Nagrin Lives on in Her Final Collaboration
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It was the opening night of Behind the Lid, and the show's co-creator, Lee Nagrin, was slipping into a coma. She'd been diagnosed with cancer back in February and had not been able to leave the hospital. Until recently, her collaborator Basil Twist...
Coney Island, Showboats and Romanian Scenography
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NEW YORK CITY: Theatre photographer Rivka Shifman Katvan's new exhibition "Coney Island Baby," running through Oct. 26 at Chelsea's Gallery 138, could not have come at a more pertinent time. Her gorgeous photographs, which document theatrical improvisations...
Cutting Loose with Adam Rapp: The Playwright (Who's Also a Director, a Novelist, a Musician and a Basketball Jock) Has a Brash and Brooding Side
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WHEN HE'S BEHAVING, Adam Rapp discusses theatre with the stately gravitas of a drama professor. He invokes Harold Pinter, Edward Bond and David Mamet. He uses the phrase "dramaturgically rigorous." When Rapp decides to cut loose (which is often, once...
Editor's Note
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It's going to be a movie before you know it--and, if the casting dish in the latest issue of Vanity Fair is to be believed, Meryl Streep will star in the film as the skeptical, holier-than-thou nun Sister Aloysius, opposite Philip Seymour Hoffman as...
Everybody into the Pool: Berlin's Venerable Theatertreffen Lightens Up
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Germany takes theatre seriously. Every production in some way participates in an ongoing discussion of German nationhood--that's a given. At least that's what I thought as I began the 10-plays-in-15-days marathon that for 44 years has gathered together...
Inside the Mind of the Director
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FOR ANNE KAUFFMAN, DIRECTING IS A FORM OF CRUSADE. MARIA MILEAF CRAVES THE SHARPNESS OF NARRATIVE. A PLAYER, DERRICK SANDERS KNOWS HOW TO WORK A REHEARSAL ROOM. WHILE JOEL SASS GOES FOR GILD AND GAUD, REBECCA BAYLA TAICHMAN SPARKS CRACKLING ELECTRICITY...
Ken Roht: Opera with a Twist; from Underground L.A. Emerges an Auteur with Music in His Veins
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When Ken Roht was nine years old, he listened to opera on the radio as he drifted off to sleep in his quiet southern California suburb. For other kids his age, AM pop radio probably did the trick. But Roht was an odd duck from the start. He still is....
Leap 'Lear': Kevin Kline and James Lapine Take the Iconic Tragedy Personally; A Conversation with Oskar Eustis
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In June 2006, a few years after his acclaimed turn as Falstaff in Henry IV at Lincoln Center Theater, actor Kevin Kline agreed to team up with director James Lapine on a two-week Public Theater workshop of what is arguably the Bard's most searing,...
New Names and Sudden Deaths
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HOUSTON: This past July, Infernal Bridegroom Productions shuttered its doors. The news created shock waves not just in Houston where the avant-garde troupe was a local favorite, but also around the country. This cutting-edge company had earned a national...
New York City: Beebo the Buccaneer Butch
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NOVELIST ANN BANNON DOESN'T mince words when describing her most famous creation, Beebo Brinker. "Big, bold, handsome, the quintessential 1950s buccaneer butch, she was a heller and I adored her," Bannon wrote six years ago when the latest editions...
New York City: Poland through Jewish Eyes
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LAUDED IN TEL AVIV FOR HIS RUTHLESS SATIRES and strong social stances, the late Hanoch Levin was considered the Israeli Fellini. In Krum, a 1975 work, the dramatist concocted a grotesque epic comedy out of small domestic lives, with an unmistakably...
Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings; the Theatre @ Boston Court
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Michael Michetti, DIRECTOR: Eric Whitacre is a young, charismatic, Juilliard-trained composer with a secret passion for electronica; his Paradise Lost music, like the show itself, is full of seemingly contradictory influences, from opera to techno...
Providence, R.I., and New York City: Kabuki Meets Punk
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The Theatre of a Two-Headed Calf's punk adaptation of an 18th-century Kabuki play, Chikamatsu's The Drum of the Waves of Horikawa, has its New York premiere Oct. 24 at HERE Arts Center. The piece, in workshop form, has been enthusiastically received...
Riding the Waves of History: Gem of the Ocean
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There is much to be said about August Wilson. In him we find the rare combination of poet, playwright, philosopher, historian, humanitarian, musician and spiritual seeker. These attributes culminate in August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean, making it more...
Season Preview 2007-2008
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THE SEASON'S TOP 10 Is there any Doubt? You bet! John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer-winning drama, about a struggle of power and conscience between a priest and a nun, beats out its nearest competitor by more than two-to-one as this season's most-produced...
Singing to Understand Life: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
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Early in my career as the New York Times chief drama critic, I made my first pilgrimage to the O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Conn. The Eugene O'Neill's National Playwrights Conference was conceived by its founder, George C. White, as a sort...
Something to Remember
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At certain airports nowadays, an announcer's voice graces the intercom system with a catchy mnemonic for how much fluid you can take through a security checkpoint: Remember, everyone, it's 3-1-1 (receptacles must hold no more than three ounces and...
Stark Choice for 5 Artists: War or Dialogue?
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It's mid-August, and a cohort of seemingly incompatible artists gathers at Golden Thread Productions in San Francisco for a final push toward the premiere of Benedictus, a group-created play about Israeli/Iranian/U.S. relations. Mahmood Karimi-Hakak,...
The Long Haul: Bartlett Sher and Craig Lucas Have a Good Thing Going
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They did not meet until 2001, though they knew about one another before that. But since Intiman Theatre artistic head Bartlett Sher and playwright-director Craig Lucas got together for their first conversation, they've been making up for lost time....
Writers on a Vine in LA MaMa'S Orchard in Umbria
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SPOLETO, ITALY: On a balmy Tuesday evening this past August, Ellen Stewart came out to sit at the table under the leafy arbor next to the kitchen, as 17 playwrights finished up a home-cooked Italian meal on the Umbrian hillside that surrounds the city...
