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IN 1966, JOSEPH PAPP STRODE INTO AN IMPRESSIVE, triple-arched building on Lafayette Street in Manhattan's East Village that had fallen into disuse. It had been built more than a century [...]

THE PLAYWRIGHT KATORI HALL has a voice like a luxury brand of caramel, sweet and rich and not a little salty. It has more than a dash of her Memphis [...]

On a squally December day, playwright Amy Herzog curls around a mug of hot chocolate. She is small, fine-boned and still slender even in the fourth month of pregnancy. Her [...]

THE CURTIS R. PRIEM EXPERIMENTAL MEDIA and Performing Arts Center--EMPAC for short--hugs a steep incline on the campus of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the nation's oldest technical university, located in [...]

For the creators of Charlie Victor Romeo, it's not just about theatre anymore Regional theatres do not, as a rule, provide seatbelts, oxygen masks or life vests, but at a [...]

Playwright Avery Crozier prefers to remain anonymous-not to mention race-less, gender-less, ageless and location-less. But this penchant for invisibility didn't prevent him (or her) from posting a playscript, Eat the [...]

A LOUISIANA COMPANY'S UNIQUE THEATRE WAS CRAFTED FROM A HOG BARN WHEN ROYAL SHAKESPEARE Company veteran Barry Kyle arrived at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge in 1992 to teach [...]

FOUNDED IN 1986, CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE Theater--then known as Shakespeare Repertory--gave its first performance on the terrace of the Red Lion Pub in Lincoln Park. How times change! Today CST readies [...]

The idiosyncratic writer/composer/director finds theatricality in the mundane In the halcyon '80s, Richard Maxwell fronted the band Rickie 'n' the Croatians. Maxwell sang as 'Rickie' and the appropriately Croatian Pavkovic [...]

Staging the American premiere of Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love might strike fear into even the stoutest of directorial hearts. No theatrical trifle, Invention concerns British poet A.E. Housman's [...]

Whether it's thanks to her facility for dialogue or a willingness to tap her own fascinating family for inspiration, playwright Amy Herzog manages to create characters that capture the attention [...]

An interview with playwright Amy Herzog is presented. Topics of discussion include her experiences attending Yale University, the autobiographical nature of many of her plays including "The Wendy Play" and "Love Song for Two Voices," and her relationship with her mother and grandmother. The importance of politics in Herzog's work is also analyzed.

Features Richard Maxwell, a theater writer, composer and director. Plays composed and directed since his arrival in New York; Effect of pressure in director's rehearsal style; Hallmark of a Maxwell actor; Attention to observations in watching a Maxwell play.

The article examines the use of digital technology at the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at the Rensselaer Polytechnic campus in Troy, New York City. EMPAC features 12 cameras in the ceiling, computer-controlled rigging and fiber-optic cables for the supercomputer, among others. EMPAC theatre and dance curator Hélène Lesterlin mentions the resistance of some artists to new technology. Also noted is the deployment of technology at the first Filament Festival of EMPAC.

The article features an October almanac of events in American theater including the founding of the Actors Studio in 1947, the opening of John Osborne's "Look Back in Anger" on Broadway at the Lyceum Theater in 1957 and the establishment of Montana Repertory Theater in 1967.