... matters — has become with Vasiliev’s departure a poor, vulgar, and desolate place. — Adrian Giurgea © 2007 by Adrian Giurgea doi 10.1215/01610775-2007-010 2 up front The Best of Times For the five years that Robert Woodruff...

...Howard Brenton Copyright © THEATER 1986 1986 ‘The Best We Have, Alas’: A Note on Brecht Howard Brenton Recently I was talking to a British fricnd who has just finished writing...

... of the 'private man.' But their plays contain the pulsebeat of a tense social existence, something present in the profound psychological searchings of their protagonists. The young playwrights have not, in my opinion, written their best works yet. But they are already speaking in a language of their own...

... on the other these practices may also provide our best future solutions for a vibrant and reformed American live performance practice. The article concludes with an argument for the central role of higher education in the future incubation of an innovative noncommercial American theater. akuhars1...

... the focus was to be on Hirsch's own adaptation of the classic Yiddish play The Dybbuk, and the students would find themselves called to a consideration of the spiritual side of human life. For this first two-hour session John Hirsch talked about his life in art; it was one of the things he did best. What...

... irrespective of the current state (Stanley Kauffmann, who recently retired from the Besides, if wejudge only by earnestness, sure• of the theater. Playwrights and actors and Yale School of Drama, has been teaching in the ly there have been more earnest playwrights directors and designers, even the best...

... Copyright © Yale/Theatre 1977 1977 1. Can we identify an “American style” of acting? 2. If so, where are the best examples of this style usually found - in the theatre, in films, or in television? 3. How has this style evolved? Is it embryonic or fully developed? 4. Which artists...

...Rocco Landesman Copyright © by yale/theatre 1973 1973 54 Ann-Margret and the Critic Rocco Landesman The on-the-job tenure of our best drama critics has recently averaged just about the playing span of a lineman in professional football. After just a few years of going...

...? of American actors’ style. I don’t believe in the abuse of the Moment to moment work on stage is very much like that. method. But what I love is gut-emotion based work that is When I work with actors we look at broad strokes and big informed by a great intelligence. That is the best of ideas, and we...

... of the plays themselves. Plays, new and Western world? How does the best work in the nonprofit theater old, from Hungary, the Soviet Union, Austria, Ireland, even compare with the best commercial production? And, all com- Japan, are seen upon some stages, Dramaturgs, almost unheard of parisons aside...

... matters — has become with Vasiliev’s departure a poor, vulgar, and desolate place. — Adrian Giurgea © 2007 by Adrian Giurgea doi 10.1215/01610775-2007-010 2 up front The Best of Times For the five years that Robert Woodruff...

... through opening. He has to be sensitive a superb overview of theater history and dramatic literature and enough to figure out the best way to work with this director on this criticism, but with only those two production experiences. So I learn• production. A different way may work the next time. Again...

.... you find out who you are much later. So don’t And failing in the best possible way. I love worry about all that, just go do your work, and to fail because it really brought to light what by doing you’ll find...

... not the only way to achieve ensemble on stage and I’m not always sure it’s even the best way. I think that what can often happen is that what you gain in terms of actor familiarity...

... to the promise and daring of American theater - which, at its best, is as resourceful and engaging as its best dramaturgs. - ].S. 4 ...

... be the need for increased participation in arts programs by best thing that has happened to arts education in years. students, and increased awareness by parents of preschool There are two reasons for such optimism. First, children. excluding the arts has had the effect of throwing down...

... and Media Theatre and Performance in Digital Culture: From Simulation to Embeddedness by Matthew Causey 2006: Routledge Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance by Chris Salter 2010: mit Press The theater, if it is to survive, must do what it does best — what only it can...

...- pressed to find a Playboy way of expressing my views on important films if I had not previously written at my best for The New Republic. Serious style is something about which the serious critic ought not to be susceptible to bullying. On newspapers there is an obligation (as I was told) to keep...

... of the necessity of concern with that problem; the idea of "much ado about nothing" cannot radiate from the actors themselves. The Miser had the best set of the Festival, a graceful and imaginative creation by Anne Gibson, which cried out to be used as something more than a place for actors' feet...