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... Copyright 1969 by yale/theatre 1969 The last discussion The following discussion took place on 30 September 1968 in the Experimental The- atre of the Yale School of Drama. Participants whose remarks are quoted are: Katherine Ling, wife of William Bolcom, composer and Visiting...

...David Copelin, translated by Copyright 1968 by yale/theatre 1968 Ritual and Theatre A Discussion with Jonathan Miller In April 1968 Dr. Jonathan Miller returned to the Yale Drama School, where he had directed Robert Lowell's adaptation of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound...

... curation Yale School of Drama dramaturgy criticism theater journalism publishing Albany Park Theater Project and Third Rail Projects Learning Curve, Ellen Gates Starr High School, Chicago, 2016. Photo: Liz Lauren 1Tom Sellar Discussion, Dream, Art, People Fifty Years of Theater This issue...

...Sigrid Gareis; Tilmann Broszat In this piece, Gareis and Broszat discuss the need for a cross-cultural exchange regarding the practice of live art curation, a conversation that culminated in the 2015 project Show Me the World and the spielart Festival in Munich. At spielart , six invited curators...

...David Adjmi; Christine Evans; Charlotte Meehan; Lisa Schlesinger; Christopher Shinn; Naomi Wallace Caridad Svich moderates a virtual panel of American playwrights—David Adjmi, Christine Evans, Charlotte Meehan, Lisa Schlesinger, Christopher Shinn, and Naomi Wallace—in a discussion about the abuses...

...Bettina Brandl-Risi Bettina Brandl-Risi discusses two performances based on reenactments of historical events: Jeremy Deller's The Battle of Orgreave (2001), which revisits a bloody clash between picketers and police during a miners' strike in Thatcher-era Britain, and Rimini Protokoll's...

...Michael John Garcés; Sonja Arsham Kuftinec In this interview, playwright Michael John Garcés discusses Los Illegals , his 2007 play about undocumented workers in Los Angeles. He describes Cornerstone Theater's process of working collaboratively with local immigrants to develop the play as well...

...Paul McKinley The scenario: A Thursday night, very late. An online chat forum on Utopia and theater. As usual, there are many silent viewers lurking, invisibly watching the participants' comments scroll by, adding to the discussion here and there. The SysOp – or system operator, who acts...

...Patty Berne; Nomy Lamm Patty Berne (executive director/artistic director) and Nomy Lamm (creative director) discuss the work of their performance collective and disability justice advocacy group, Sins Invalid. They address their company’s attempts to implement the principles of disability justice...

... academics, teaching artists, editors, and archivists hosted by him and Quinn Bauriedel of Philadelphia’s Pig Iron Theater Company. The institute’s goal was to provide a platform for longer-term discussions of the historical, theoretical, and critical teaching of devised physical ensemble theater given...

...Michael Thalheimer In this interview, theater scholar Jonathan Kalb and acclaimed German director Michael Thalheimer discuss Thalheimer's radically stripped-down approach to canonical dramatic texts, with reference to several recent productions, including Liliom , The Oresteia , Emilia Galotti...

...Liviu Malita; Tom Sellar Tom Sellar interviews Romanian theater scholar Liviu Malita, who has recently unearthed records of theater censorship during Ceau escu's communist regime. Malita discusses his research at the Archive of the General Directorate for Press and Printing (DGPT...

...Marian Popescu Romanian theater critic and scholar Marian Popescu discusses the challenges faced by Romanian playwrights, directors, and other theater practitioners since the fall of communism. He details the struggles that artists and institutions have had to address and adjust to since the end...

...Cristina Modreanu Romanian theater scholar Cristina Modreanu discusses the primary model of dramaturgy, classical texts presented in a realistic style, has evolved after 1989 in Romania to accommodate new visual styles of avant-garde directors. Modreanu describes directors such as Mihail Maniutiu...

...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...

...Alina Nelega Alina Nelega offers a playwright's perspective on the development of playwriting in post-communist Romania. She details the challenges faced by new playwrights in a primarily visual, director-driven theatrical culture, and discusses the history of programs like Dramafest and dramAcum...

...Steve Moore; Carlos Treviño In this interview, theater scholar Jonathan Kalb and acclaimed German director Michael Thalheimer discuss Thalheimer's radically stripped-down approach to canonical dramatic texts, with reference to several recent productions, including Liliom , The Oresteia , Emilia...

...Emily Coates In this article, Emily Coates discusses the work of three choreographers—Opiyo Okach, Yasmeen Godder, and Yvonne Rainer—whose work was shown at Yale University's Festival of International Dance in 2008. She examines their work from both global and local perspectives, suggesting various...

...John H. Muse John H. Muse surveys the recent phenomenon of the flash mob—brief, participatory performances in public spaces, often advertised virally and lasting no more than a few moments. He discusses the work of Improv Everywhere, particularly their events Frozen Grand Central and No Pants...

...Brent Meersman; Savas Patsalidis; Max Glauner; Barbara Orel; Rolf Dennemann This forum compiles contributions from a group of leading international critics and producers on the subject of theater festival culture in a globalized world. Brent Meersman discusses the politics of arts festivals...