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In this interview with Lupa, Beata Matkowska-Swies discusses some of the director's most revered and challenging productions while investigating the methods he employs in his creative process.

This essay by influential Polish dramaturg Piotr Gruszczynski addresses the importance of Krystian Lupa's theater--its fearless risk-taking, gloriously orchestrated chaos, and inimitable excavation of the unknown.

"I do not even know if this is all true what I am writing. I only know that the moment it is written it becomes the truth."

This collection of Lupa's journalistic essays reveals a more intimate side of the artist. Writing through the fog of memory, his family relationships and coming-of-age are exposed in a series of "true" hallucinations.

These excerpts from Krystian Lupa's notebooks, coupled with his own drawings, provide insights into the artist's thoughts on the relationship between actors and director, the alchemical process of transforming dreams into theater, and how he traverses the mysterious landscape of imagination.

Theater editor Tom Sellar introduces readers to Krystian Lupa and relates why this issue's devotion to the singular artist is an essential step toward filling the gap in American awareness of his work.

Jonathan Kalb's forthcoming book GREAT LENGTHS zeroes in on seven landmark lengthy works of theater. In this excerpt, he explains the historical trajectory of marathon theater around the globe and investigates what these varied productions share in common, other than their protracted durations.

PS122's remounting of Ishmael Houston-Jones's dance event THEM questions whether performance can--or cannot--live beyond its original presentation and measures the distance from improvisation to duplication.