...Michael Hays Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York. Lincoln Center and Some Other Cultural Paradigms Michael Hays The Lincoln Center...

...Elizabeth W. Son In this article, Elizabeth Son discusses the broader social and political implications of the cross-cultural mode of collaboration employed by American choreographer Dean Moss and Korean sculptor Sungmyung Chun in co-creating their dance-installation piece, Nameless forest . ©...

...E. Andrew Taylor Building for the Arts: The Strategic Design of Cultural Facilities by Frumkin Peter and Kolendo Ana Chicago , University of Chicago Press : 2014 © 2016 by E. Andrew Taylor 2016 Wes Guy and New Birth at jaw: Playwrights Festival, Portland Center...

...Ivan Vyrypaev Translated and introduced by Susanna Weygandt, this polemic from the popular and controversial Russian playwright Ivan Vyrypaev responds to the new “Politics of Culture.” In June 2015, Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky published guidelines for artistic creation, which Vyrypaev...

...Marina Davydova Marina Davydova impugns what she calls a “total conservative revolution” in Russian culture. Self-censorship has rendered censorship superfluous, she argues, as reverence for fossilized classics forbids their transformation or modernization. Her polemic traces the cult of the past...

... Augusto Pinochet, and he blinked, and tried to ex- cuit. plain it away: ‘These cops are everywhere. They even pump their 4. Asseciaziene Ricreativa Culturale Italiano - the cultural circuit run by radio messages through our microphones’. Then he carried on as if the Italian Communist Party. nothing...

...Alisa Solomon The Moscow State Yiddish Theater: Jewish Culture on the Soviet Stage by Jeffrey Veidlinger 2000: Indiana University Press;Cubo-Futurist Klezmer: Recordings from the Moscow State Yiddish Theatre(1922–1938) 2001: Mel Gordon and J. Hoberman © 2003 by Yale School of Drama/Yale...

... committees after Hitler’s invasion of the USSR in 1941. Yiddish Culture, Rubinstein’s work corrects and com- Soviet State pletes the record. But the division between...

... that of American culture. put it on my resume, it wasn’t the become a playwright. I was very She spoke with me about her thrill I thought it was going to be, but frustrated, I told Oscar Brownstein writing and her views on American I was still quite dedicated to it. Then once, I...

...Robert Brustein Copyright © by yale/theater 1974 1974 The Culture Watch Robert B rustein I’ve been watching American culture all my life, and professionally for twenty years-originally as a theatre critic for The New...

...Jonathan Kalb This excerpt from Jonathan Kalb's forthcoming book Great Lengths: Seven Works of Marathon Theater from University of Michigan Press considers the recent proliferation of lengthy theater pieces, or “marathon theater” events, in their historical and cultural contexts. He discusses...

...Madison Moore Madison Moore examines nightlife as a staged experience and club culture as a source of artistic innovation. Tracing its development from 1920s Harlem to its current manifestations around the globe, Moore explores how nightlife leverages darkness, the “just-beginning-to-stir...

... that the large-looming Canadian modernists known as the Group of Seven have had on Canadian culture and identity, illuminating her argument that God of Gods was not “a Canadian play” but “the script for Canadian racism.” © 2020 by Jacob Gallagher-Ross 2020 Canadian nationalism Deanna Bowen the Group...

...Tania El Khoury Live artist Tania el Khoury reflects on the impact borders have had on her art practice since 2005. She references her own As Far as My Fingertips Take Me (2016, with Basel Zaraa) and Nothing to Declare (2013, with Dictaphone Group) and examines in greater depth her work Cultural...

... Institute of Political Murder ( iipm ), and has been something of a through line for the director. In analyzing both projects, Defraeye traces their development and provides the historical and cultural context of the events presented. In the case of Hate Radio , this involves looking at performances...

... within their own collaborative processes and how theaters might cultivate a culture grounded in care work. Reflecting on the lack of support for queer, POC, and disabled artists in US commercial theater, they discuss the ways that Sins Invalid’s work challenges those institutional paradigms. Finally...

..., in which Mac performs American music from each decade of us history. Krasinski observes that Mac uses “popular” to mean not “true greatness” but rather the more complex, and perhaps uncomfortable, idea of “concocted hierarchy.” She concludes by using each segment of Mac’s performance to reflect on cultural...

...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...

... this innovative piece within the legacy of cruelty and violence on stage, he finds that the tension between history and heart , between making sense of an act of violence historically and culturally while simultaneously doing justice to the emotional experience of the victim, is not only at the center of Im...

... them. Sack sees in Gunn’s work the creation of heterotopias, places that open out onto an elsewhere, toward realities that simultaneously exist outside of the world and connect its disparate cultural manifestations together, from identity to ethics, politics to performance. Copyright © 2019 Daniel...