... Peter Sellars Interviewed, with an afterword by, Ron Jenkins...

...Mark Bly Copyright © THEATER 1985 1985 Lyubimov and the End of an Era: An Interview with Peter Sellars Mark Bly...

...Mead Hunter Copyright © THEATER 1986 1986 Sea,” a neon-lit diner sporting formica SELLARS AND MOZART countertops, glass cases...

...Tom Sellar In this article, Tom Sellar, the editor of Theater for sixteen years, reflects on the five-decade legacy of the magazine. Sellar’s personal retrospective looks both backward and forward, from Theater ’s polemical beginnings in the late 1960s and his own encounters with the magazine...

...Elizabeth LeCompte; Faustin Linyekula; Peter Sellars; Ashley K. Tata; Kate Valk; Gideon Lester; Tom Sellar Gideon Lester, Ashley K. Tata, Elizabeth LeCompte, Peter Sellars, Faustin Linyekula, and Tom Sellar (L to R), Decentering Molière artist roundtable, Yale University, New Haven, ct, 2022...

...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...

...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...

...Tom Sellar In this article, Tom Sellar begins to define the mercurial role of the performance curator that has been emerging at the intersections of theatrical practice and the visual arts and their presentation. By linking the burgeoning prominence of curators with “a desire for strengthened...

...Tom Sellar © 2003 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2003 The Master and Margarita, directed by Krystian Lupa. Stary Teatr, Krakow, 2001 Tom Sellar Poland’s Old and New Masters Foundations The annihilation of Warsaw in 1944 was so total that, in some cases...

...Tom Sellar © 2004 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2004 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Witold Gombrowicz. Photo: Bohdan Paczowski Up Front Importing Gombrowicz The standard...

...Tom Sellar; Mark Lord © 2005 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2005 lord Up Front Failures of the Imagination This issue consists of theater projects exploring the psychology of contemporary vio- lence, individual and global. While the volume made its way...

...Tom Sellar © 2005 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2005 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Tom Sellar Theater and Violence Introductory Notes I. “Fixed Ideas” The idea...

...Tom Sellar; Gitta Honegger Harold Pinter, 1971. Photo: Henri Cartier- Bresson / Magnum Photos Up Front Pinter’s Nobel Truth As we prepared this issue focused on Elfriede Jelinek, the novelist, playwright, and winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize for Literature, news came that Harold...

...Tom Sellar Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2006 Up Front Fear and Posturing The spring 2006 season was marked by news that two different productions had been canceled by major theaters for political reasons. In February 2006, the New York Times divulged...

...Tom Sellar © 2006 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2006 Portfolio AKHE  Theater Since 1989 the young St. Petersburg collective calling itself AKHE (and also “Russian Engineering Theater”) has created entrancing, witty, and wildly beautiful spectacles. With roots...

...Tom Sellar Adelheid Roosen and The Veiled Monologues company in Parliament, The Hague, 2005. Courtesy of Stitching Female Economy Tom Sellar World Bodies Adelheid Roosen and  The Veiled Monologues I. When I joined Adelheid Roosen on a gray afternoon in May 2006 in Ede...

...Tom Sellar Anatoly Vasiliev with Yuri Lyubimov, School of Dramatic Art Theatre, 1989. Courtesy School of Dramatic Art Theatre Up Front “What Good Are Poets in a Bereft Time?” “Wozu Dichter in durftiger Zeit,” asked Friedrich Hölderlin in his elegiac poem “Bread and Wine.” Indeed...

...Tom Sellar Voices in Conflict, 2007. Photo: Jaisen Crockett Up Front Hearing Voices Voices in Conflict, an ensemble-created production based on the letters and words of soldiers serving in Iraq, made its off Broadway debut at New York’s Joseph Papp Public Theater on June 15, 2007...

...Tom Sellar Krétakör theater workshop, Budapest, 2007. Photo: Margó Klacsán Up Front Hungarian Mavericks With this issue, Theater begins a series of five sections — broadly defined and not con- secutive — looking at contemporary theater in Eastern Europe. Our editorial initiative...