...Razvan Penescu In this personal essay, Romanian publisher (LiterNet.ro) Razvan Penescu writes about his decision not to applaud a poor performance at the National Theater of Bucharest and how his dissent represents an expressive freedom that was disallowed in communist Romania. © 2009 by Yale...

... graduating from Bucharest’s Nicolae Grigorescu Fine Arts Institute in 1992, he has established himself as a leading artist in Romania’s theater, receiving awards for his set, lighting, and costume designs at Romanian national theaters. The production photos collected here illustrate his contributions...

... Bucharest, 2006. fragments were so deftly spread that they even acquired a name, “lizards,” inspired by Courtesy of National the ability of these little animals to sneak around. These “lizards” served as special Theater, Bucharest Theater 39:2  doi 10.1215/01610775-2008-021 © 2009 by Cristina...

... that have to do with us dea, and supported by Bucharest’s Theater Academy, took to the idea that a prerequi- site for new writing was a cadre of directors interested in new writing. A competition was launched and, as with Dramafest, the play selections were made by directors. But the enterprise also...

... an appointment as director of the National The- ater in Bucharest, where he created Trilogia greacă (The Greek Trilogy) in September 1990. This mounting of Şerban’s legendary American production from 1974 signaled the revival of the Romanian theater at a time when miners and civilians were clashing...

... professor of theater studies at Lucian Blaga in 2006. University in Sibiu and University of cristina modreanu is artistic director of Bucharest. In addition to his work as editor, the Romanian National Theatre Festival, researcher, and cultural policy...

..., Three Sisters, and Don Giovanni, and created a school to train young actors. He has also orig- inated works in Great Britain and Germany, but his work remains underrecognized in relation to his considerable accomplishments. Purcărete was born in Bucharest in 1950 and graduated in direction...

... atmosphere of Bucharest before World War II—the amplitudes between intellectual debates and trivial pursuits, the whole emotional scale from nervousness and anxiety to depression and tedium vitae. The dominant force of the diary comes not from an artistic or emotional sphere, however, but from ideology...

... © 2009 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2009 The Lower Depths, directed by Liviu Ciulei, Bulandra Theater, Bucharest, 1975. Courtesy of Helmut Stürmer Portfolio Helmut Stürmer and the Romanian Theater Helmut Stürmer was born in Timişoara, Romania, in 1942...

... to Romania in 1990 to assume the directorship of Bucharest’s National Theater, and since 1992 he has concurrently taught in Columbia University’s graduate theater training program. By now Şerban has trained part of a new generation of actors and directors, many of whom continue to soldier, unpaid...

... Elena and Nicolae Ceaucescu during their trial, Bucharest, Romania, December 1989. Photo: AFP/ Getty Images journalist 2 Okay. He visits Reagan journalist 1 Yes, that’s very good. in Washington. The very first thing...

...Ruth Wilson Copyright © by yale/theatre 1973 1973 The Plays of Tristan Tzara Ruth Wilson 1. A Very Short Curriculum Vitae of Tristan Tzara, Dada In 1896 Sami Rosenstock was born in Bucharest, Rumania. He appeared in Zurich in 1915 under the alias Tristan Tzara...

... to national identities and purposes. Nostalgia is Romania in 1990, after twenty years in exile, to often strong for the security of the past. assume the directorship of The National The- The gains are that theater artists now ater in Bucharest, expresses his...

... of mountains in shirts in our church that is the west station the horses hanged themselves in bucharest while looking at mbogo...

... as a no real explanation for what had happened recipient of a Lippmann New Frontier Award. when, who had been responsible for what, and exactly how power had been transferred. It was washburn  I’m using it to go to Bucharest...

... and Bucharest are coordinating a Instead of the usual routine-airport-hotel- scheme for the training of arts administrators, dressing-room and out-programmers are the International European Theater Meeting is insisting on workshops, seminars, debates, and holding its summer conference in Tallin, which...

... and Central European network. Talent is abun- dant, but there’s little know-how or vision to assist it. In Bucharest, and certainly in Kishinev, Riga, Kiev, Minsk, Bratislava, and Zagreb, theater people are reacting to new political circumstances with reluctant pragmatism rather than with calls...

... these sites. gia didn’t have one, maybe we could just build (In her native Bucharest, for example, she a pavilion in the form of a kamikaze loggia. and her performers replicated an equestrian Miraculously — despite the fact that in Venice statue of Carol I, and she choreographically for more than...

... theater model in Central and Eastern Europe. With Cipriana Petre (from Bucharest) I did some quick quantitative research on the region: there are still 680 repertory theaters active there, including opera houses, dance companies, and children’s theaters, plus at least 450 in Russia alone...