Search

On a hot summer night teaching artist Nilaja Sun is wrapped in a blue wool scarf and sips steaming chamomile tea. She radiates the air of a drained battery already [...]

EPIDAURUS, GREECE: There are 10,000 pairs of ears--give or take a few--in this photograph of the theatre at Epidaurus. Yet even the quietest of onstage whispers reaches them all without [...]

War has a funny way of bringing out the best--as well as the worst--in men. Well past the battle's end, when the surviving warriors have only their canes and memories [...]

THE WORLD IS CONSUMED BY PROGRESS, PROFIT AND UTILITY. Even heaven is a factory that recycles souls to save space. Jason Loewith, artistic director of Next Theatre Company in Chicago, [...]

LENOX, MASS.: Shakespeare & Company is intimately acquainted with Edith Wharton (in photo)--once housed on her impeccably restored estate, the company has dramatized the author's fiction for more than 25 [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Josefina Lopez's 1990 play Real Women Have Curves, adapted into an award-winning film in 2002, takes on perennially human themes--perceptions of beauty, women's roles, family, immigration and labor--and [...]

DETROIT, MICH.: Hannibal of Carthage battled men and the elements to cross the Alps with every manner of obstacle in his way; Langston Hughes surmounted oppression and racism to become [...]

LOS ANGELES: The life and short stories of Franz Kafka metamorphose into an eclectic medley of performance styles and diverse tales for Odyssey Theatre's KOAN ensemble, guided by artistic director [...]

NEW ORLEANS, LA.: 'Working on a novel, one basically sits alone in a room for a year,' observes New Orleans novelist John Biguenet (pictured), who makes his first foray into [...]

This article presents an interview with playwright Luis Alfaro about his play Electricidad. Alfaro narrated how he got the idea to adapt the character of Electra. He explained the language in the play, a mixture of Spanish and English. He provides a background on the character of Clemencia. He states his reason for including the character Ifigenia in the play.

This article presents a review of a theatrical production of the play "The Adding Machine," by Elmer Rice as the Next Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois, directed by Jason Loewith.

Presents information on the Epidaurus Festival of Greek Drama in Greece in summer 2005. Details of the event; Highlights.