...-­Rubin Global Queer Stories on the American Stage The Criminal Queerness Festival As of today, sixty-­four countries around the world criminalize lgbtq+ people, and by extension censor queer artists. As the founder of National Queer Theater and the Criminal Queerness Festival, I have witnessed firsthand...

...Jonathan Kalb © 2003 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2003 Jonathan Kalb The Death (and Life) of American Theater Criticism Advice to the Young Critic A Lecture to Students at Barnard College and New York University, Fall 2002 Theater criticism is an art (some...

...Jonathan Kalb Copyright © THEATER 1986 1986 An American Quartet Jonathan Kalb ceaseless hovering of haunting ghosts ly silly (to us) details from a bourgeois of all the authors...

...Thomas F. DeFrantz © 2010 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2010 Thomas F. DeFrantz Performing the Breaks Notes on African American Aesthetic Structures Many forms of African American expressive culture derive their aesthetic capaci- ties from the manipulation...

...David Adjmi; Christine Evans; Charlotte Meehan; Lisa Schlesinger; Christopher Shinn; Naomi Wallace Caridad Svich moderates a virtual panel of American playwrights—David Adjmi, Christine Evans, Charlotte Meehan, Lisa Schlesinger, Christopher Shinn, and Naomi Wallace—in a discussion about the abuses...

...Judith Weiss Copyright © THEATER 1980 1980 Mutunaim, directed by Mario de Andrade for Grupo de Arte Pau- Brazil, 1979 Latin American Theater Today: An Introduction Judith Webs If any one factor has affected the development of Latin Because directors Boal, Buenaventura...

...Walter Bilderback Copyright © THEATER 1985 1985 Beyond Teacups and Wallpaper: The American Ibsen Theater Walter Bilderback an increasingly rich theater environment here...

...Mark Bly Copyright © THEATER 1986 1986 American Production Dramaturgs: An Introduction But here was Alan Schneider...

...W.D. King Copyright © THEATER 1986 1986 “NAILED TO A CIRCUS OF BLOOD”: AJAX AT THE AMERICAN NATIONAL THEATER...

...Sarah Benson; Simon Dove; Meiyin Wang; Tom Sellar © 2015 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2015 City Farm: Where Are You Growing?, Eagle Street Rooftop Farm, Brooklyn, 2010. Photo: Kate Glicksberg Can We Talk? Toward A Critical Discourse for American Theater...

... punishment for a se- has a troubling consequence when applied to an rial rapist and a low-level drug dealer? issue as deŽned by racism as the American We can make the innocence argument, death penalty. While lesser-known actor Charles but we need to make all ofthese argu- Brown, as the eloquent...

...Alisa Solomon Copyright © THEATER 1980 1980 Theater in Two Americas: The Second Latin American Po~ularTheater Festival A Alisa Solomon I found it impossible to avoid being swept up in the en- extent to which it accomplishes its purpose. But such a judgement thusiasm...

... Theater did when he started a second Goodman group called, appropriately enough, “The New Theater of Argument: Company.” Still, many small new ensembles undoubtedly hope to become as well-endowed, capacious and old as the Goodman’s first A New American theater...

...Louis Lappin Copyright © THEATER 1986 1986 production). Even if our government was no longer CHEKHOV AND THE involved in covert and overt military ac- tivities in Latin America, Spaid36 AMERICAN IMAGINATION would serve...

...David Copelin, translated by Copyright 1968 by yale/theatre 1968 The Theatre on American lPo~itnca~ life A Symposium On March 15, 1968, a midnight teach-in and screamed "Yes, strike!" and then and discussion on the place and relevance they all went out...

...Robert Brustein Copyright © THEATER 1978 1978 The Crack in the Chimnev: J Reflections on Contemporary American Playwriting Robert Brustein Ifi the second act of Ibsen’s The Master Builder...

...Susan Yankowitz Copyright 1968 by yale/theatre 1969 Lowell's BENITO CERENO: An Investigation of American Innocence by Susan Yankowitz Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. -T.S. Eliot The complex...

...Sandy Boynton Copyright © Yale/Theatre 1977 1977 The History of American Acting: A Detour By Sandy Boynton Why should our thoughts to distant countries roam, When each refinement may be found at home? -Royall Tyler, in The Contrast, 1787, the first American comedy...

... American Style: play. This emphasis is probably less a com• promise than it is a basic performance value; Mark Lamas' for Akalaitis' primary concern, I believe, is asserting the "now" of the theater event, the fact that the spectacle happens with some...

...Alan Ackerman © 2010 Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2010 The American Play: 1787–2000 by Marc Robinson 2009: Yale University Press Books Alan Ackerman The American Play and Its Discontents The American Play: 1787 – 2000 by Marc Robinson 2009...