...Susan Mendelsohn The following interview was conducted after the first stage of an ongoing project, an adaptation of Euripides' Electra incorporating rap music, developed with students at a New Haven high school. Since Susan Mendelsohn has functioned on this project as playwright, dramaturg...

... Copyright © by yale/theater 1969 1969 Theatre Students Rap The following is a selection of significant comments made by students from the casts and crews of plays performed at the American College Theatre Festival in Washington last spring. Yale...

... Copyright 1969 by yale/theatre 1969 The Living Theatre raps The following discussion took place we're in here playing heroes all night. among members of the Living Theatre on We have got to be the bad guys, because Saturday afternoon, 28 September...

...Bob Telson Copyright © THEATER 1981 1981 BEN’S JIVE: (SIMULTANEOUSLY) ARE WE EVER. MOVING Writing the Music PICTURES SISTER SUZIE CINEMA for Sister Suzie BASS RAP . BRIZ: WE OPENED UP. UPTOWN...

... TO MAKE WOULD TAKE THE BRECHT-WEILL PREMISE . VER- THE WORDS SAY : “THIS IS A RECORD RAP WITH PER- NACULAR POETRY SET TO AN IRONIC TAKE ON CUSSION LIKE CHARLES WATTS DRUMMING ON DIXIELAND . INTO A MUSICAL AND LINGUISTIC HONKY TONK WOMAN...

...- way Union Takes Issue with ‘Hamilton’ Casting Call for ‘Non-­white’ Performers.” The breakout phenomenon of the 2015 – 16 theatrical season, Lin-­Manuel Miranda’s Hamil- ton tells the story of Alexander Hamilton using a mash-­up of musical styles (hip-­hop, rap, musical theater) and featuring...

.... Mr. Johnson offered his Student: They surrounded it and two of short plays to the Living Theatre during them got Maced. a Sunday afternoon rap session (29 Sept., 1968) held just before the company left Johnson: They surrounded it. . . New Haven for the rest of their American...

... suicide.” Romeo father is a community activist, and Stars, rapping, partying, and and Juliet also readily adapted to his cousin Benny (a combination of playing guitar, gradually Mexican culture. Dr. Cliff Harper, Benvolio and Mercutio) is an East infiltrate...

.... 7 moore Category Is: Voguing in Context As a creative, expressive form, voguing and house ball culture have never been more popular. Today vogue balls happen not just in New York, Detroit, or Atlanta — they pop up in Paris and Berlin, London and Washington, dc. Underground rap...

... box. Others follow and line the stage as opened wide in a teethy smile-accentuate the the cacophony of recorded rap drowns out the face’s apelike qualities and conform more to a calypso chorus singing of going home. The racial caricature than a revered...

.... the Secretaries as “metronomic women establish the level of execution she ex- Then Val enters, and Leon and Val like the ones in the movie, The Stepford pects from the company. perform a “rap duet,” which has evolv- Wives.” The pathologically cheerful JoAnne continues the rehearsal by ed...

...-92. Hoyle, Geoff, with Bill Irwin, Mr. Fox: A Mendelsohn, Susan, “The Rap on Euripides: Rumination on the Life ofa Clown (performance Creating New Texts in Urban Schools,” no. 2, 6-11. review by Joel Schechter), no. 3,94. Jenkins, Ron, “Urban Slapstick: From Chaplin’s Minwalla, Framji...

..., dancing as them, bringing referents, drawing them, or presenting them through song. In the name of their characters, they wrote love letters, dreamed, rapped. They birthed their Ofelias, Hamlets, Claudios, Polonios, and Horacios. At the beginning of the devising process, we wondered if it was possible...

... it together into a memorable production. There existed a rap- port between Will and Gower that t have never seen quite equalled: their mutual re- spect let them spill over into each other's territory with Gower giving wonderful design ideas and Will adding to the staging by the way the sets were used...

... to no one In other words, I'm taking On the other hand, non-human voices, notes in as much detail as possible on an and will be broadcast in the Bay Area, from other planes, and from nature, event that's happening somewhere inside and, RAP hopes, elsewhere, sometime in seemed associated...

..., as if he was saying This is how I do it. jaime thanks álvaro with a hug. álvaro Music! This is Álvaro s rap. Beats start playing. álvaro invites the actors onstage. The texts are projected on the screen. This is álvaro s rap. álvaro Yo yo yo, Chela De Ferrari s Hamlet. Photo: Dante Rossi 39 de ferrari...

.... On on closer inspection the Negroid features- walks a young black teen in street clothes with nappy hair, flat nose, thick lips, and mouth a boom box. Others follow and line the stage as opened wide in a teethy smile-accentuate the the cacophony of recorded rap drowns out...

... of a sentence. You feel me? [hah!] Ahhhhh. [hah!] My mother. [hah!] Ahhhhh. [hah!] I love her. M i l e 1 8 7 live music/rapping here. Hah! It s just a regular night, driving down the street not a jacker in sight. Hah! I got calm too quick, I stopped at the light, saw a cop, oh shit. Uh! Play it cool my meng...

.... ..varied points of view in one per- kind of license that I have, a kind of permis- son-myself.” The legitimacy of this project sion that I have, because I’m black?” has so far stood unchallenged, except by rap It’s an important question, and Smith is artist Sister Souljah, who refused to be inter...

... is it possible to carry on the methodology and pal- Volksbühne, Berlin, ette of symbols in new works and contexts. From Annie the musical to Jay-­Z the rapper, 2014. Photo: 7 Thomas Aurin who raps of necessity and not because it is fashionable...