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SHORTLY UPON BEING APPOINTED DEAN OF the Yale School of Drama in 1966, theatre critic Robert Brustein invited notables from New York's experimental theatre scene to New Haven, Conn., for [...]

Oscar Wilde wrote it but never saw it. Sarah Bernhardt opted not to purchase it. Richard Strauss set it to music, 'Bosie' turned it into English, Norma Desmond pushed herself [...]

A Bollywood-style Anthony and Cleopatra. A fin-de-siecle Vienna King Lear. Orson Welles's storied voodoo Macbeth. Ever since the Lord Chamberlain's Men staged The Merry Wives of Windsor as a medieval [...]

AS THE BOOZE-AND-BITTERNESS-FUELED FRENEMIES OF LESLYE HEADLAND'S BACH elorette lurch into various confessions, it surfaces that one character had previously helped another terminate an unwanted pregnancy. Upon learning this, a [...]

Shortly before boarding an early-morning flight from Newark to Seattle to see Titus Andronicus last April, I stopped dead in my tracks. Why on earth was I traveling 2,300 miles […]

WHEN ARKANSAS REPERTORY THEATRE PREmiered The Legacy Project: It Happened in Little Rock, in 2007, producing artistic director Bob Hupp expected to see some familiar faces in the audience. Two [...]

KEVIN D. COHEA, AN ARKANSAS SCHOOLTEACHER AND PLAYWRIGHT, was shocked a few years ago when he unearthed a 1913 ad beckoning tourists to the state with the promise of 'No [...]

'Every critic who hailed Hair as the future of musical theatre was essentially consigning the Bernsteins and Rodgerses to the past,' contends Eric Grode, author of the forthcoming book HAIR: [...]

THE TOWER OF BABEL MAKES ONLY ONE brief appearance in the Bible, but it lives on as a symbol of mankind's hubris (the tower was created in an attempt to […]

Thornton Wilder may have referred to his 1973 novel Theophilus North as 'a joking autobiography,' but two East Coast theatres have decided to take the work seriously this season. Theophilus [...]

Presents a critique of various translations of Oscar Wilde's 1890s play "Salome." Irina Tsikurishvili and Jonathan Levek for Synetic Theater; Marisa Tomei and Al Pacino for Actors Studio; Peter Hauenstein and Barbara Cole for Shakespeare Tavern.

Presents commentaries from theater personalities on their relationship with the critics. Attitude of Molly Smith, artistic director of Arena Stage toward reading reviews; Effect of reviews on choreographer John Carrafa; Impact of reviews on actor Ruben Santiago-Hudson.

The article features Trip Cullman, stage director. He directed the Off-Broadway staging of "Bachelorette" at the Second Upstage Uptown in 2010. It looks into his foray into stage direction which was said to have been influenced by his assistantships with directors Joe Mantello and Mike Nichols on "Take Me Out" and the staging of "The Seagull" in Central Park, New York while he was graduate student at Yale Drama School.

Presents information on the play "Babel," directed by Alain Timar, which will be performed in Knoxville, Tennessee on June 11, 2004. Number of languages that will be used in the play; Details of a French-language production of Babel.