.... doi 10.1215/01610775-2006-015 98 books Claudia Orenstein Good Theater in Bad Times The San Francisco Mime Troupe Reader edited by Susan Vaneta Mason 2005: University of Michigan Press Does political theater need...

...Martin Gottfried Copyright © by yale/theatre 1973 1973 Why is Broadway Music So Bad? Martin Gottfried 82 It has become commonplace to say that musicals are America's greatest contribution to the theater and yet musicologists persist...

... as Literary Manager the kitchen. (from The Bad InJnity) (I managed the Literary) at Playwrights Horizons I had no answer to Andre’s question. in the early 80s, a series I...

... Copyright 1969 by yale/theatre 1969 The Living Theatre raps The following discussion took place we're in here playing heroes all night. among members of the Living Theatre on We have got to be the bad guys, because Saturday afternoon, 28 September...

...Elizabeth Bennett The Bad Infinity: Eight Plays by Mac Wellman 1994: Johns Hopkins University Press Two Plays: A Murder of Crows and The Hyacinth Macaw by Mac Wellman 1994: Sun & Moon Press Copyright © Theater 1995 1995 BENNETT side...

... of translocalism: how much did Greta Thunberg affect the bad student movement in Thailand? These children wear school uniforms and ironically call themselves the Bad Students. Some of them are as young as ten years old. They protest for educational reforms with students full participation, perceiving the school...

... uncalled for in the theatre have been interspersed betmn thme because nearly everything there has, at of Mr. Bentleyi Mr. Bentfey was best, crude qualities. Crudely good, if interviewed by Rocco Landesman, Mr. good, and mostly crudely bad. So the Novick by Robert Marx...

... me, he wouldn’t take his hand out of me. I was stuck on his wrist like a puppet. amber Here, take him. I ate all the fur off He made me do little fi nger dances and bad when I was little. I don’t need him any more. magic tricks. Finger language of the dead, he He’s naked. called it. Th e vomit...

... that the bourgeoisie also should see his work. felt the touch of genius anyhow, if it is really present? Both times, I Was this another of his jokes? I shall assume not, because I think I felt I had rather a bad play on my hands, and a bad play of a par- recognize symptoms of a rather widespread misunderstanding...

... to do with the decay of our major cities as with internal factors; that is, what happens to the theatre is to a certain extent affected by what happens to the "theatre district." The theatre can endure bad plays, bad actors, bad critics. It cannot-on, off, or off-off Broadway-endure empty...

... given a pretty hard time by both sides of that equation: it is either bad art or bad politics, according to their detractors. In the last year, however, there have been some notable attempts to find a way out of that trap. The most striking of these was the Berlin Bien- nale, during which curator...

... seems to be there to complete an action that has to end as soon as possible. At the end of the play people applaud, some- how not convinced, but they applaud and the bowing actors are asked back on stage five times. At the lobby exit, there is the regular whispered wailing about how bad...

..., art is valid, is self-justified, doesn’t have to heard in all his work. Conversely, all criticism in which a human Justify itself by non-artistic criteria - whether those of a Pope or of voice is not heard is bad criticism. a Commissar, whether those of Jerry Falwell...

... that situations still sticks together and not only at God isn’t pleased when we use bad words Christmastime —exactly, if we’ve got to chase bad people —not only at Christmastime...

... accumulation of experience (badness) becomes in- early on, she has no other alternative but to fall. It comes as distinguishable from her slow giving up of experience no surprise then, that Armand would, in a moment of despair, (goodness)as she approaches death. This dramatic equation throw money...

... the unusual audience responses that he captured in print. Reproductions of his prints and my own notes follow. J oel Schecter is Literary Manager of the American Place Theatre and teaches drama at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. The Fruits of Bad Dramatic Training...

.... And if it was mentioned, it was mostly: “I like it. I don’t like it.” Now, ever since Clive Barnes and Frank Rich, design is often mentioned a great deal, and designers have begun to realize what it means to get a bad review. Nobody likes it. Sometimes I wish we could return to the time when designers...

... business, sagging under the weight of its own contradictions, making bad compromises, and ignoring the audiences it is designed to pander to. I. MAESTROIN THE PROVINCES Hartford Stage’s audience comes from anywhere but Hartford. A group of graduate students on our way to see Pearls...

... of GARRETT In The Dzficulfy of Crossing a Field sharp realism that you get with Kroetz. On the and Cat’s - Paw, there’s not as much of what other hand, if I had not gone in that direction I you call “bad writing” - writing that intention- would have written dreadful “poetic” plays all ally breaks...

... found his fingers on the table and looking over the strange and who found Gorky just as strange. head of the person he was talking to, Gorky In 1916 Korney Chukovsky came to Moscow. said: “Yes, things are bad, very bad”-but He told me that the publishing house “Parus...