...: marked me as a woman people never listened to or even worse only when it Little boy, when you get older was too late, for the first time since that Do you suppose you’ll be a little bit tragic day I, Stella Beckman, am celebrat- bolder ing my birthday alone...

... Curve, Ellen Gates Starr High School, Chicago, 2016. Photo: Liz Lauren 1Tom Sellar Discussion, Dream, Art, People Fifty Years of Theater This issue of Theater volume 50, number 1 brings the journal to a magnificent mile- stone: fifty years of publication. Our anniversary edition is almost entirely...

... on one evening in the life of a working woman. She comes home from work, goes through her daily routine, and commits suicide. If the “explosive energy” of this action could be used by oppressed people against society rather than themselves, Kroetz believes that we would have a “revolutionary situation...

... who are beginning writers do not share the social temperament and political worldview of people like Gelman and Shatrov. Young writers are for the most part developing the traditions of their immediate predecessors, the 'new wave' p1aywrights. They are explicitly engaged in an artistic study...

..., and finally to the lonely rural stretches of Bavaria, the heart of “Kroetz country.” The faces and accents of the people entering my train compartment kept changing accordingly, each voice charting the landscapes outside and inside on this Ride Across the BRD in the death of winter, through blizzards, along...

..., I should add that my own opinion of it was unformed when this project started, though I read bound galleys more or less mid-way; once I knew what I thought, I tried to keep silent until people's responses were finished.)—Erika Munk Copyright © Theater 1994 1994 Allphotographs ofBertoltBrecht...

... emancipated how minoritized people and their histories are portrayed. Black Collectivity s A Practice of Return, Made in Seattle 2023, Velocity Dance Center, Seattle, 2023. Photo: Chloe Collyer Jasmine Mahmoud Seattle s Episodic Companies of Color A Return to sis and Black Collectivity Most bipoc companies...

... to Robin and Terry, who per- everybody in the world will be allowed to vote formed the piece at the premiere in 2011. on it, just by pressing a button, yes or no. r: In the future there won’t really be coun- t: Or — people just won’t worry about politics tries, like there are now, there won’t...

... and they all have needs? It s ridiculous that within capitalism we re expected to just produce according to a specific schedule without any acknowledgment of our actual bodily needs. This pandemic has given a doorway into Disability Justice for everyone: you re going to see people s kids on their Zoom screens...

... by a very few shorter one is called S-I, and the other which is called The people, mostly millionaries and the bourgeois capitalists. And as Motion of History is about four hours long. I’m not writing you become less and less clearly useable in their terms - theater plays regularly - perhaps that’s...

.... At that point raised in southern Louisiana, Nick Slie is an actor, we just started recording stories. We took the director, writer, educator, and community activ- idea of listening to people’s personal histories ist...

... always changing the tradition- they take their name from a slang show and looking for new people. Sometimes term for hobo widely used in the 1920s. we’ll have an age range from sixteen to seventy...

... the event as a thing you will inevitably be star, and I realized that it would be quite a compelled to like. Is there another frame job to create a dialogue around the work. The that can draw people in? One that puts critical landscape here is very different from, forward the idea...

... do here, in the inaugu- considering a specific project. Let’s say we’re ration? The most violent, radical people will preparing protest spectacle for the presidential say, “We should stop it! We should bomb the inauguration...

... production work for the tour. I perform some became my life’s work. Confronting, talking excerpts from My Father and the Wars. They about, and attempting to change every vestige are warmly received, the audience largely facul- of ignorance about African black people being...

... that contradiction? Was the insti- connections that we make in theater, specially Anna Deavere Smith tute a place for exploring that contradiction? Or equipped to bring people together on a smaller, leading a discussion is theater captured by that contradiction, as local...

... in the deci- sion to do that. In South African theater, black people are always the carriers of bruised dignity; here they are treated as other men.” There has been a “white flight” from the inner city, where overcrowding and the development of slums has led to high crime. In Jozi Jozi, says Simon...

... together of terviews she gave was with performance maker two groups of people who interact with each Annie Dorsen. Their conversation appears below. other. We’ve been working very hard for the last twenty years on bringing the audience annie dorsen: Let’s...

... there was a shift in the way I dealt with life and art. I started a live art proj- ect called Potato Talks focused on storytelling in public squares in Ramallah, Jerusalem, and other cities. The first one was in Marrakech, Morocco. I was working with other people changing the space of the square through stories. I...