... Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2007 Compiled and Introduced by Jacob Gallagher-Ross Ibsen Our Contemporary Contemporary Directors on the Playwright’s Centenary Compiled and Introduced by Jacob Gallagher-Ross The year 2006 was the hundredth anniversary...

... In June of 1994, I interviewed four Russian theater artists who represent overlapping phases in the ideological formation of the contemporary Russian stage. The youngest is Evgeny Kamenkovich, whose career is an object-lesson in the entrepreneurial savvy an artist needs to survive in Russia today...

...Anna Krajewska-Wieczorek Copyright © Theater 1995 1995 Still Contemporary A Conversation With Jan Kott Anna Krajewska- Wieczorek This interview was conducted in March 1994 and translated by Anna Krajewska- Wieczorek. 85 K-wWhat was the genesis...

... The Critical Panopticon: Essays in Theater and Contemporary Aesthetics by Mohammad Kowsar (Peter Lang, 1991). Copyright © THEATER 1992 1992 BOOK REVIEWS The Age and Stage of George L. Fox episodes, Irwin's play conveys the rise and because, Kelly shows...

...Lenora Champagne Copyright © THEATER 1981 1981 CONTEMPORARY THEATER IN FRANCE Armand Gatti: Toward Spectacle without Spectators Gatti is the exponent...

..."l;o Fan Winkle, Act 11, scene iv. Stephen Lang as Heinrich Vedder, Seth Allen as Rip Van Winkle. Rip Van Winkle Our Contemporary: An Interview with Richard Nelson Shelley Berc, Rick Davis, Joel...

... darkening theater: “We should suddenly imagine that they are identical.” The Head-Waiter arrives with a single cup of coffee, and the two men refuse it with identical gestures. The Head-Waiter lowers the blinds on our stage picture. As in some contemporary painting, what we see is what...

...Bertie Ferdman © 2013 by Bertie Ferdman 2013 Cuidades Paralelas building, Buenos Aires, 2010. Photo: Lorena Fernandez Bertie Ferdman A New Journey through Other Spaces Contemporary Performance beyond “Site-Specific” It is only in a place and at a time where we do...

...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...

...Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento In this article, Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento discusses Brazilian contemporary theater with a focus on the works of playwrights Dib Carneiro Neto, Newton Moreno, Jô Bilac, and Diogo Liberano. She provides an introduction to the country's current cultural and political...

...Joel Schechter; Colette Brooks Copyright © THEATER 1978 1978 “Who’s on First”: Contemporary American Playwriting From the Editors Perhaps the Great American Play will be written this year; Ever since O’Neill, “great” serious...

...David Bruin David Bruin’s “How to Survive Civilization”—hearkening back to Walter Benjamin’s observation that “modern art teaches us to survive civilization if need be”—searches for the seeds of survival strewn amid scenes of suffering on the contemporary stage. Examining works by Reza Abdoh...

...James Schevill Copyright © THEATER 1992 1992 TOWARDS A NEW POETIC REALISM IN. CONTEMPORARY THEATER JAMES SCHEVILL...

...Roger Copeland Copyright © by yale/theatre 1973 1973 Sense and Sensibility in Contemporary Dance Roger Copeland 134 All the arts live by words. Each work of art demands its response; and the urge that drives man to create-like...

...Gregory Sandow Copyright © by yale/theatre 1973 1973 Theatre in Contemporary Music Gregory Sandow 148 New music may be the least understood of all contemporary arts. I shrink a little from trying to describe it. There are many, often opposing...

...Steve Lawson Copyright © THEATER 1978 1978 Contemporary Dramatists: Tinsel and Hairshirts Steve Lawson It runs to 1,088 pages - fifty-one more Some interesting facts crop up right away. (that is, strong, atypical, unephemeral), than Gone...

...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...

...Andrea Tompa Critic Andrea Tompa discusses the work of Romanian director Silviu Purc rete in the context of contemporary Romanian theater. She gives particular attention to his productions Pantagruel's Cousin and Faust , and examines Purc rete's approach and influence with regard to his...

...Michael J. Kramer Michael J. Kramer reflects on his experience of closer , a contemporary dance performance created by BodyCartography Project, led by the Minneapolis-based creative team of Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad and presented by the Chicago Cultural Center. The performance’s two parts...