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The article reviews the play "Conversations on a Homecoming" directed by Garry Hynes.

Presents the short story "Reenactments," by Robert L. King.

This article discusses several plays concerning the roots of violence: "The Prisoner's Dilemma" by David Edgar; "Gargarin Way" by Gregory Burke; "Hinterland" by Sebastian Barry, Others.

Reviews several plays. "Heaven," by George F. Walker; "Light," by Torgny Lindgren; "Nocturne," by Adam Rapp; Others.

Reviews several plays. "Cloudstreet," by Tim Winton; "Full Circle," by Charles Mee; "Book of Days," by Lanford Wilson; Others.

The article focuses on the acknowledgement made by author Jon Robin to Sir David Hare, the English playwright whose political commitments inform works that range from a large-cast trilogy on British institutions. It mentions that Robin and Hare have new plays in the works that they are likely to transfer to the U.S. The response of the British audience to American plays that emphasize characters in domestic situations is cited.

This article features talks, speeches and plays presented in North America as of May 1998. Includes Christopher Hampton's translation of "An Enemy of the People"; Tom Stoppard's "The Invention of Love"; Frank McGuinness' play "Mutabilitie"; Shelagh Stephenson's "The Memory of Water"; Productions of David Rabe's "A Question of Mercy" and Joe Penhall's "Love and Understanding."

This article features the play "Othello,"directed by Jude Kelly. Actor Patrick Stewart's portrayal of the lead character; Difference of the play with other interpretations; Cast of characters; Notable performers.

This article comments on several selected stage plays. "Amy's View," by David Hare; "The Cripple of Inishmaan," by Martin McDonagh; "The Seagull"; Adaptation of Shakespeare's plays.

This article focuses on theater plays in the United States. Analysis of plays including "The Old Neighborhood"; "Time to Burn"; "Pearls for Pigs"; "The Mineola Twins."

This article comments on several plays staged in England and the United States. Includes: "The Mai," by Marina Carr, staged by the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey; "Portia Coughlan," by Marina Carr, staged by the Royal Court in London; "Golden Child," by David Henry Hwang; "Dealer's Choice," by Patrick Marber at the Long Wharf Theatre in Connecticut.

This article focuses on the play "The Designated Mourner" by Wallace Shawn. Play's storyline; Casts; Strengths and weaknesses.

This article features several stage plays. "The Young Man from Atlanta," by Horton Foote; "God's Heart," by Craig Lucas; "Valley Song," by Athol Fugard; "Three Tall Women," by Edward Albee.

This article presents developments concerning the performing arts in the United States as of July 1996. Production of a pair of one-act plays by John Patrick Shanley during the 1996 Human Festival of New American Plays; Actors Theatre's production of Elizabeth Dewberry's play `Flesh and Blood'; Production of Charles Smith's `Black Star Line,' by Chicago's Goodman Theatre.

This article discusses stage productions of the Actor's theatre of Louisville. Plays include "Keely and Du," "Marisol," "Stanton's Garage," and more.

This article presents information about some plays. The premise of "Someone Who'll Watch Over Me" sounds like the start of a bad joke; playwright Frank McGuinness expresses a tired formula through the wittiest of his three characters, an Englishman, an Irishman, and an American. As "Someone Who'll Watch Over Me" comes out of the tradition of modern drama, it stands confidently on its own, for McGuinness makes the existentialist horror urgent and edgy by locating it in a recognizable political reality. This final dramatic image gets its rich intensity from a system of allusions and self-references and from the masterful range of tone and style that McGuinness creates in "Someone Who'll Watch Over Me."

This article presents information on three sellout plays in London that viewed history through the experiences of the diseased or damaged. One of them, Death and the Maiden, beat out the other two for the Laurence Olivier Award as best play. Its dominant performer, Juliet Stevenson, was named best actress, and Nigel Hawthorne, in the title role of The Madness of George III, best actor. Awards for these achievements could qualify as British understatements. A flat tire before the curtain of Death and the Maiden brings together a rape victim, her torturer and her husband, a lawyer who has just been nominated to a presidential commission to investigate human rights violations in an unspecified country.

This article presents information on the autobiography of the dramatist Christopher Hampton. Christopher Hampton's new play, "White Chameleon," dramatizes his boyhood experiences in Egypt and England during the four years when the British lost control of the Suez Canal. Like several other new works, the play complicates the question of colonialism and makes the excited exchanges over the politically correct seem both arid and oversimple. Near the play's end the call for a light for a condemned man's last cigarette is misinterpreted as the final command to the firing squad; "light as in fire" kills Black Lighting, "a killing machine" with the "zen of Bruce Lee."

Reviews various dramas. "Bobrauschenbergamerica," by Charles Mee; "Quake," by Melanie Marnich; "When the Sea Drowns in Sand," by Eduardo Machado.