... of Myself, Fairfax Studio, Arts Centre Melbourne, Australia, 2013. Photo: Sarah Walker 5Daniel 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...

...John Freedman 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 History, suggested Thomas Carlyle, is a “distillation of rumor...

...André M. Zachery 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 But according to writer and theorist...

...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...

...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...

...! 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

...Jennifer Krasinski Jennifer Krasinski recounts her experience with Taylor Mac’s A 24 – Decade History of Popular Music , which she first encountered in selection in 2015 at New York Live Arts, and then saw in its entirety at St. Ann’s Warehouse in 2016. She reviews the structure of the production...

...Chantal Rodriguez Likening Latinx theater to many octopuses with many legs, Chantal Rodriguez reflects on the 2017 Encuentro de las Américas Festival, hosted in Los Angeles by the Latino Theater Company, which included the first international convening of the Latinx Theatre Commons. Rodriguez...

... spectacles of human suffering in the twenty-first century. In a time when art no longer shocks, argues Friedman, Findlay’s work repurposes the confrontational attitude of the avant-garde by orienting it toward the insoluble impasse of desire and reality. Tracing the arc of Findlay’s oeuvre, Friedman...

... Exchange Rate , which was presented at the Fisher Center at Bard’s 2019 lab Biennial, Where No Wall Remains . El Khoury was a cocurator of the biennial and offers additional reflections on that process, which was her first experience curating an arts festival. Tania El Khoury s Cultural Exchange Rate, lab...