... Felton-Dansky Controlling the Twenty-First Century Suppressed Theater and Global Change I. On the evening of Saturday, December 19, 2004, the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, in Birmingham, England, planned to open a world premiere: Behzti (Dishonor), by a young Sikh playwright named...

...Matthias Lilienthal; Tom Sellar © 2014 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2014 Constanza Macras’s Hell on Earth, hau Berlin, 2008. Photo: Thomas Aurin “A Change Has Totally Taken Place” Matthias Lilienthal Interviewed by Tom Sellar tom sellar  My first...

... by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2001 Theater 31.3-06 Artist State.sh 10/16/01 11:22 AM Page 62 How Do You Make Social Change? Theater asked a number of artists and community activists engaged in theater for social...

..., Mississippi, 1964. Photo: Matt Herron. Theater 31.3-07 Cohen.sh 10/16/01 11:30 AM Page 95 Jan Cohen-Cruz Motion of the Ocean The Shifting Face of U.S. Theater for Social Change since the 1960s The role...

... Julie Salverson Change on Whose Terms? Testimony and an Erotics of Injury It is late afternoon in the early 1990s. I am one of almost thirty people at a Theater of the Oppressed workshop led by Brazilian director Augusto...

... Theater of Social Change in Context Before I begin, I invite you to join me in a stroll down memory lane. To tell the truth, I’m a little tired of going by myself. Looking back, I am simultaneously touched by the intensity of my generation’s hopes...

...Scott T. Cummings © 2003 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2003 Scott T. Cummings Short Changed? Wooden Nickels at the Regionals Nobody knows better than Joan Holden the di X culty ofadapting a nonŽction best- seller for the regional theater stage. In short...

...Adrienne Kennedy Adrienne Kennedy Paragraphs, Passages, and Pages That Changed My Life (Excerpt) When Adrienne Kennedy, a young aspiring writer from Cleveland, arrived in New York City in the mid 1950s, she found a muse as well as a home. In this new...

... in traditional auditoriums, theatermakers are asking who is watching, how, and why. Theater 40:3  doi 10.1215/01610775-2010-001 © 2010 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 1 dean Tracking Changes Tanya Dean...

...Laurence Senelick Copyright © THEATER 1989 1989 CHANGING SEX IN PUBLIC: FEMALE IMPERSONATION AS PERFORMANCE LAURENCE...

...Erika Munk Copyright © Theater 1993 1993 Up Front Changes Erika Munk THEATER has gone through many metamor- Consent sank theater one way, opposition sank it phoses of name, shape, style...

...Tom Sellar © 2020 by Tom Sellar 2020 1Up Front Changing Edifices Tom Sellar Two artists recalibrated the values of public edifices in autumn 2019. In London, the American artist Kara Walker installed a thirteen- meter- high water fountain, titled Fons Americanus, in the Turbine Hall at Tate...

...Miriam Felton-Dansky Miriam Felton-Dansky offers an introduction to the writer Sylvan Oswald and proposes that his work High Winds expands the boundaries of dramatic art by reshaping the form and the architectonics of trans storytelling. According to Felton-Dansky, “Changing the format...

...Janice Paran; Joel Schechter The Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut opened July 4, 1965, and has since become one of American foremost regional theaters. Its American premiere productions include The Contractor and The Changing Room by David Storey, The National Health and Forget-Me...

...Ivan Medenica Serbian critic and scholar Ivan Medenica considers the work of new theater artists in Serbia after the fall of Slobodan Milošević's regime in 2000. He begins with an appraisal of playwright Biljana Srbljanović, whose early antinationalist work signaled a fomenting political change...

... the historical precedents of extended theatrical events, such as those by City Dionysia, Japanese Noh theater, medieval mystery plays, and Wagnerian opera. Kalb considers changes in the theater industry and media culture over the last several decades that may have influenced this sudden proliferation. He also...

...Emily Carson Coates This article discusses the interrelationship between contemporary dance aesthetics and social change developed in the piece Dans Un S’Y Mettre by Burkinabe choreographers Auguste Ouédraogo and Bienvenue Bazié, as well as their larger project, Engagement Féminin, which aims...

...John Freedman John Freedman surveys the trends and important events in Russian theater from 2010 to 2015. Freedman pays particular attention to how changes in Russia's increasingly conservative political climate and cultural policy have resulted in increased censorship of, decreased funding...

... make any difference in how a director staged a play, or a critic judged a production? Would it change the interpretation of Brecht's theories or his politics? Was any of this new information about the way his plays were created more than biographically and historically interesting? Was it really new...