... letters were included in Theater 38:1 © 2008 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 1 sellar the textual pastiche — lauded both the students’ efforts in creating the piece and their persistence in presenting it and affirmed that the show spoke for many soldiers sta...

...Catherine Sheehy Copyright © THEATER 1991 1991 FILLING THE BILL: A DRAMKRITICAL PIECE ABOUT AN EVENING OF BECKETT AT CENTER STAGE CATH E R I N E SHEEHY...

... Catherine Sheehy Prize–winning music critic Tim Page has spearheaded a massive effort to resuscitate a The Last Piece of the Puzzle reputation and body of work as obscure...

...Sílvia Fernandes © 2015 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2015 Newton Moreno’s The Meal, Teatro Abasto, Buenos Aires, 2012. Photo: Luana Vianna Sílvia Fernandes Translated by Elizabeth Jackson Bodies in Pieces An Introduction to Newton Moreno’s The Meal...

...Michel Vinaver Copyright © Theater 1997 1997 MICHELVINAVER THEINTERVIEW a play in thirty pieces Translated from the French...

...Andreas Englhart Andreas Englhart examines the aesthetics of evil, particularly extreme evil, in the work of director Milo Rau, focusing on Five Easy Pieces . Englhart considers the ways in which postmodern aesthetics are beginning to turn once again toward the ethical and how this turn is both...

... choose to make statements about themselves and the intent of their work. This piece is not, then, a review of Actors Theatre's “Classics in Context” festival, and will not comment on its quality. It seeks instead to examine the theoretical constitution of such a festival from the standpoint of dramaturgy...

...Daniel Sack In Daniel Sack’s discussion of Nicola Gunn’s dramatic oeuvre, he finds a through line running between her works—one of self-reference and autofiction, a kind of playful knowledge of the self. In tracing this affinity between her pieces, in particular In the Sans Hotel , In Spite...

... Deutschland 2—Berlin Back Up (2002), which restages a German parliamentary debate. She discusses the role of participation and spectatorship in such reenactments, arguing that these performance pieces embody new ways of thinking about history and politics. © 2010 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory...

...Elizabeth W. Son In this article, Elizabeth Son discusses the broader social and political implications of the cross-cultural mode of collaboration employed by American choreographer Dean Moss and Korean sculptor Sungmyung Chun in co-creating their dance-installation piece, Nameless forest . ©...

...Nick Salvato Nick Salvato examines the collision between “old” and “new” media staged by the actorless performance piece Bonanza , produced by German multimedia collective Berlin. © 2012 by Nick Salvato 2012 Berlin’s Bonanza, Marseille, 2010. Courtesy of Berlin Nick Salvato The New...

...Jonathan Kalb This excerpt from Jonathan Kalb's forthcoming book Great Lengths: Seven Works of Marathon Theater from University of Michigan Press considers the recent proliferation of lengthy theater pieces, or “marathon theater” events, in their historical and cultural contexts. He discusses...

... scenes, Moore highlights the stylistic affinities and cultural clashes between postmodern dance and voguing in Harrell’s sweeping cycle of dance pieces titled Twenty Looks or Paris Is Burning at the Judson Church. © 2014 by Madison Moore 2014 Madison Moore Walk for Me Postmodern Dance...

...Emily Carson Coates This article discusses the interrelationship between contemporary dance aesthetics and social change developed in the piece Dans Un S’Y Mettre by Burkinabe choreographers Auguste Ouédraogo and Bienvenue Bazié, as well as their larger project, Engagement Féminin, which aims...

...Sigrid Gareis; Tilmann Broszat In this piece, Gareis and Broszat discuss the need for a cross-cultural exchange regarding the practice of live art curation, a conversation that culminated in the 2015 project Show Me the World and the spielart Festival in Munich. At spielart , six invited curators...

...Jacob Gallagher-Ross Jacob Gallagher-Ross introduces the text of Big Art Group's SOS , a piece recently staged at the Kitchen in New York City. He analyzes and situates the company's mediatized aesthetic within the context of contemporary consumer culture and the economic implosion of 2008. ©...

... non-narrative pieces such as The Lady Dick (1985) and Dress Suits to Hire (1987). All of Hughes's work has an undercurrent of dark comic rage. And her subject has always been relationships between women. Despite her notoriety as a “lesbian artist,” this does not necessarily mean sexual relationships...

...Marco de Marinis; Giovanna Covi, translated by The following article is part of a slightly longer piece, the first section of which simply expands upon the work in reception theory previously carried out by de Marinis, Greimas, Jauss and others (see bibliography) in order to better define...

...Marc Robinson “Seventeen photocopies of a man’s hand, each depicting a different highly expressive gesture”: this provocative piece of research from Robert Wilson’s archive at the Columbia University Library draws Marc Robinson back to Wilson’s Einstein on the Beach . From its famously semaphoric...

... this innovative piece within the legacy of cruelty and violence on stage, he finds that the tension between history and heart , between making sense of an act of violence historically and culturally while simultaneously doing justice to the emotional experience of the victim, is not only at the center of Im...