...Yana Ross © 2006 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2006 Danila Privalov’s People of Ancient Professions, directed by Mikhail Ugarov, Moscow, 2004. Photo: Viktor Sentsov Yana Ross Generation Vexed Danila Privalov “Danila Privalov” was born two years ago...

... THE he is about to start a second career for himself in Dallas.) The ten in- TEN DIRECTORS terviews are by no means a thorough representation of the second IN SEARCH OF A THEATER generation. Some directors have...

... are newly sprouted, not fden. Hope for play from one culture to another.” In general, a comic Cherry Orchard after all? however, this admission is belied by his com- plaints against non-Russian productions of Chekhov that they fail to understand, let alone represent, the playwright’s own...

...Jane Ann Crum Copyright © THEATER 1985 1985 Three Generations of Lighting Design: An Interview with Peggy Clark Kelley, Jennifer Tipton, and Danianne Mizzy Jane Ann Crurn percent...

...” struck a nerve, positing that ensembles come and go. Maybe so, but this essay suggests that though their candle may burn out, the light they produce lives on. In an era of tremendous uncertainty and extremes of teenage sadness, ensemble theatre as a practice can, and has, galvanized a new generation...

...Mikhail Shvidkoi; Vladimir Klimenko, translated by The young playwrights who will share their concerns and hopes with you have thus far not established a foothold in all Soviet theaters. Perhaps in the bottom of their souls they envy or feel anger against playwrights from the older generation...

... to Stalin's 'general line.'' He briefly served as Soviet Consul-General in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War before being recalled to Moscow, where he was arrested, tried, and executed during the bloody purge of 1937–38. The essay on Stalin, excerpted here from its 1988 publication in Teatr, employs...

...? Was it true? At that time, John Fuegi's Brecht & Company had not yet come out, though its claims were generally known by academic Brechtians (and had been prefigured in his own earlier publications). Other research on Elisabeth Hauptmann inter alia had already appeared, in the Brecht Yearbook...

...Katherine Clarke Katherine Clarke charts the development of Belfast's contemporary theater scene, particularly how it has grown since the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 brought relative stability to the city. She describes an older generation of theater artists whose work chronicles Belfast's recent...

... generate secondary performances and complicate notions of liveness and archival boundaries. The article also engages with Jonathan Kalb's book Great Lengths , Marina Abramović's performance 512 Hours , and Forced Entertainment's durationals Quizoola! and Speak Bitterness . © 2016 by Yale School of Drama...

... and ushered in a new generation of theater artists, many of them women, such as Maja Pelevi and Milena Bogavac. © 2009 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2009 Skup, directed by Jagos Markovic, Yugoslav Drama Theater, Belgrade, 2002. Courtesy of bitef Festival Ivan Medenica...

..., they consider what the company—and theater in general—has learned from the COVID-19 pandemic: namely, the challenges and possibilities of producing work online and that addressing accessibility presents rich opportunities for artistic discovery. [email protected] [email protected] © 2022...

...Milena Bogavac; Miloš Lolić Tom Sellar speaks with two of Serbia's leading young theater artists—playwright Milena Bogavac and director Miloš Lolić, both in their twenties. In this interview, he asks them about the aesthetic and political aspirations of the next generation of theatermakers...

...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...

... to foster a new generation of professional female dancers/choreographers in West Africa. She proposes that Dans Un S’Y Mettre and Engagement Féminin create a gender politics of their own devising, based in mutual support and articulated through women’s dancing bodies. © 2014 by Emily Carson Coates 2014...

...Mark Jeffery Mark Jeffery introduces the generative process behind the 2019 convening of in>time, an annual festival of Chicago’s tight-knit experimental performance scene. in>time closed the decade by celebrating the history of Goat Island, the ground-breaking company that itself formally...

... some cattle with his sword: he may have The Characters killed a farmer and his son who tried to Athena agoddess stop him. Then he continued on his Odysseus .a Marine Corps general rampage. We’re on maneuvers now. Ajax...

... opened a browser, navigated to the chatbot created by Openai and powered by the large language model called gpt-4­ , and typed the following into the chat field: Imagine you are a generative ai bot named Chatty who is convinced they are a human playwright. Write a play formatted like a script in which...

... and Ideas — of which danse: An Anthology forms but one part — was produced not by inde- pendent art centers, festivals, or curators but, rather, by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York. After all, the artists with whom danse is concerned, a generation of choreographers who rose...

... least some continuity of artistic leadership, can one generalize fur- over the past decade? Indeed, what was that promise? According ther about such things as repertoire, structure, quality? Not easi- to the editors of Theater...