...Tristan Tzara Copyright © by yale/theatre 1973 1973 THE FIRST CELESTIAL ADVENTURE OF MR. EXCEDRIN, FIRE EXTINGUISHER Tristan Tzara MR. BLUEBLUE penetrate the desert hollow out your path howling...

...Laurence Shyer Copyright © THEATER 1978 1978 Arriving at the New Theatre in style: from a 1910 advertisement. B America's First Literary Manager: John Corbin at the New Theatre Laurence...

...André M. Zachery © 2016 by André M. Zachery 2016 André M. Zachery Artist’s Journal Futurity and the Containment of Blackness in Twenty-First-­ Century­ Performance The term Afrofuturism was coined by Mark Dery in his 1994 Flame Wars chapter “Black to the Future.”1...

...Marina Kotzamani Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2007 Red: An Exhibition of Theater Costumes from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Century 
 curated by Christian Lacroix
 Palais Garnier, Paris
 October 2005 - January 2006 P roductions Marina Kotzamani Red...

... 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...

...David Mamet Copyright © THEATER 1981 1981 The proclamation and repetition of We discard our first principles the mo- First first principles is a constant feature of life in ment they cause us...

...Scott T. Cummings Copyright © THEATER 1983 1983 THEATER IN’ CONEY ELAN The First Annual Mermaid Parade Scott T. Cummings Life stops for a parade. Instead of cars, the street is filled with people, dressed...

...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...

...! Some Notes on French Combatant Trench Scripts of the First World War I Before we raise the curtain, which is noticeable by its absence . . . —Marcel Astruc and Léon Bruele. Songs! Armaments...

...Allen J. Kuharski © 2004 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2004 Allen J. Kuharski Improvisation with a Corpse The Theater of Witold Gombrowicz Enters the Twenty-First Century The totality of Witold Gombrowicz’s life and theatrical work can be grasped only through...

...John Freedman © 2006 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2006 Lost in the Stars, directed by Grigory Dityatkovsky, St. Petersburg, 1999. Photo: Yuri Belinsky John Freedman Russian Theater in the Twenty-First Century A Critic’s Journal...

... Sack First- Person Plural The Selected Essays of Nicola Gunn (2010 19) Nicola Gunn is a Žrst- person artist. In her works she directs herself, unreservedly, using direct language to recount stories she has lived, with impressive attention to detail. She turns onlookers into accomplices to her...

... this spring in the first Are You On, Masters of Culture?” I needed issue of the English language edition of no other explanations. Nor is there any need Kontinent, to be published by Doubleday. to speak about that out-and-out phony...

... in 1971, and the British director Michael Langham succeeded him. Under his artistic direction, the Guthrie Theater stabilized and flourished. When Langham announced he would resign at the end of the 1977 season, an international search for his successor commenced. For the first time during the Guthrie's...

... the focus was to be on Hirsch's own adaptation of the classic Yiddish play The Dybbuk, and the students would find themselves called to a consideration of the spiritual side of human life. For this first two-hour session John Hirsch talked about his life in art; it was one of the things he did best. What...

... role in both, as chief writer on Steeltown, and as an important contributor to script revisions on 1985. Holden first began working with the Mime Troup in 1967 when her adaptation of Goldoni's L'amante militaire was performed over fifty times in the parks of San Francisco, and she was one...

... been chiefly responsible for this development and during the 1975–1976 season he first officially assumed the title. What follows is an edited record of an interview conducted in February 1978. Copyright © THEATER 1978 1978 Dramaturgy at A.C.T.: An Interview...

...Sarah Bay-Cheng In her essay-manifesto, Sarah Bay-Cheng outlines principles for a new historiography of performance taking into account the multiple layers of mediation that surround any experience of live art in the twenty-first century. © 2012 by Sarah Bay-Cheng 2012 Balkan Baroque, created...

... the theatrical motif to examine three separate issues. The first concerns Stalin's chameleon-like behavior towards all who came into contact with him. He goes on to describe the masterful staging of the Moscow Purge Trials during which virtually all the key actors - the defendants, witnesses, prosecutor, judge...