...Tom Sellar Jatka78, Festival of Nothing, Prague, Czechia, 2020. Photo: Jakub Jelen. Courtesy of Jatka78 1Up Front COVID- 19: A Note Tom Sellar The American theater as we knew it unraveled in the span of just a few days in March 2020. As the United States shut down large- capacity public spaces...

...Mark Lord Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2008 VOOM Portraits by Robert Wilson Paula Cooper Gallery, New York January - February 2007 Productions Mark Lord The Screens: A Note on Video VOOM Portraits by Robert Wilson Paula Cooper Gallery, New York January...

...Volodymyr Kuchynsky; Julie-Anne Franko © 2011 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2011 Volodymyr Kuchynsky, 2010. Photo: Taras Mytskanyuk To Hear the Note Volodymyr Kuchynsky Interviewed and translated by Julie-­Anne Franko Volodymyr Kuchynsky founded the Les...

...Dale McAdoo; Charles Mann Copyright © THEATER 1983 1983 A Note on the English Vosion of About Face ACT I SCENE I...

...Howard Brenton Copyright © THEATER 1986 1986 ‘The Best We Have, Alas’: A Note on Brecht Howard Brenton Recently I was talking to a British fricnd who has just finished writing...

...Joel Schechter Copyright © THEATER 1986 1986 Editor's Note: The Return of the Dramaturgs The last time that Theater devoted an issue to the profession of dramaturgy, we expected it would be the last word on the subject. After reading the essays and interviews...

...Alexis Greene Copyright © THEATER 1986 1986 A Note on Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of America Alexis Greene...

...Rebecca Ann Rugg © 2000 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2000 THE30.1-02Rugg@AK 2/8/00 5:58 PM Page 4 Rebecca Ann Rugg Shout Theater in a Crowded Fire A Translator’s Note...

...Paul Sheren Copyright © by yale/theatre 1970 1970 A Note on Ellen Terry, Gordon Craig, and Screens by Paul Sheren Thanks to the generosity of Edward Craig, yalehheatre is privileged to publish a little- known photograph of Dame Ellen Terry standing before...

...Michael Feingold Copyright © by yale/theatre 1975 1975 BRECHT The Difficulty of Einwerstaendnis: A Note on Der Jasager and Brecht’s Didactic Plays Michael Feingold Derjasager is most important...

...Jonathan Eaton 03-The30.3-Eaton.ak 22-25 10/18/00 11:27 AM Page 22 Iwan Goll, 1930. 03-The30.3-Eaton.ak 22-25 10/18/00 11:27 AM Page 23 Jonathan Eaton Royal Palace A Translator’s Note On its...

...Sasha Dugdale © 2006 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2006 Sasha Dugdale Oxygenating Theater A Translator’s Note I prepared this translation of Oxygen for Ivan Vyrypaev’s visit to the Royal Court The- atre in London in 2003. In Moscow, Oxygen had played to packed...

...Joseph P. Cermatori Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2007 Joseph P. Cermatori Agamemnon: A Translator’s Note Agamemnon is the first third of Castellucci’s Oresteia trilogy, adapted from Aeschylus. It was first performed in April 1995, fourteen years after the Socìetas...

...J. W. Compton J. W. COMPTON THELAST PROGRAM A Note on Heiner Midler? Ajax for Example I Because of their bleak imagery, critics have frequently reproached Heiner Muller’s texts for their pessimistic view of history, a reproach made both before and after...

...Rick Davis © 2004 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2004 Calderón, 1600-1681 Rick Davis Calderón beyond the Dream: A Translator’s Note Pedro Calderón de la Barca was, by most accounts, the greatest playwright of a great age, the luminous Siglo de oro, or Spanish...

...Jonathan Kalb kalb Jonathan Kalb Gulliver’s Choice Note on the Text Gulliver’s Choice is a counterplay to Heiner Müller’s Mauser (1970), which is itself a counterplay to Bertolt Brecht’s The Measures Taken (1930). All three plays are exper- iments with the Brechtian...

..., 1963 Through selection and cropping, the photographer creates, as the writer Susan Sontag noted in her seminal 1977 book On Photography, a new relationship between image and reality. “The earliest experience of art,” she wrote in an earlier essay, “Against Inter- pretation,” “must have been...

...Carrie Mae Weems Copyright © 2017 Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2017 Carrie Mae Weems Grace Notes: Reflections for Now A Work in Progress Characters to read, to do the accounting, to show slide...

... performances. Distributed across the city, all nine works arose in answer to one central question: “In endings, what is it to begin again?” 41 Mark Jeffery Nine New Fields Notes on Goat Island and in>time 2019 On September 4, 1996, Lin Hixson, director of the performance group Goat Island, gave me an artistic...