Volume 41, Number 2

Mike Check

Mike Check

Theater magazine Contributing Editor Alisa Solomon weighs in on the debate surrounding the Mike Daisey/This American Life controversy. Read her take on "L'Affaire Daisey" for The Nation here:

http://www.thenation.com/article/167090/mike-check-few-more-words-laffaire-daisey

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Nemerov Macbeth

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Acting in the Night

What can the performance of a single play on one specific night tell us about the world this event inhabited so briefly? Alexander Nemerov takes a performance of Macbeth in Washington, DC on October 17, 1863--with Abraham Lincoln in attendance--to explore this question and illuminate American art, politics, technology, and life as it was being lived. Nemerov's inspiration is Wallace Stevens and his poem "Anecdote of the Jar," in which a single object organizes the wilderness around it in the consciousness of the poet.

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Weyward Macbeth

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Weyward Macbeth

This volume of entirely new essays provides innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to the various ways Shakespeare’s Macbeth has been adapted and appropriated within the context of American racial constructions. Comprehensive in its scope, this collection addresses the enduringly fraught history of Macbeth in the United States, from its appearance as the first Shakespearean play documented in the American colonies to a proposed Hollywood film version with a black diasporic cast.

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Detje Article

WEB EXCLUSIVE:

Post-Dramatic Theater and the Bleeding Heart of the Seventies

Translated by Lucy Renner Jones.

Published by permission.

This essay-provocation originally appeared in a special 50th anniversary issue of the German theater magazine Theater heute.—Eds.

Photographs: The Living Theater. 

 

 

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Out of Silence

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Out of Silence

This collection of essays on the subject of theatre and various forms of censorship gathers in an original and stimulating manner the voices of academics, practitioners and artist-scholars, among them Chantal Bilodeau, Stephen Bottoms, Marvin Carlson, Tim Crouch, Stephen J. Duncombe, Rinde Eckert, Randy Gener, Matthew Goulish, Baz Kershaw, Joanna Laurens, Carl Lavery, Christopher Shinn, and Aleks Sierz.

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Waiting for Freedom

EXCLUSIVE ONLINE CONTENT:

Waiting for Freedom

The Freedom Theatre of Jenin's While Waiting

Photos courtesy of The Freedom Theatre

 

 

red, black & GREEN: a blues

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red, black & GREEN: a blues

Marc Bamuthi Joseph's new multimedia show asks who's left out of "living green" and aims to launch a new national conversation about social justice, environmentalism, and community. Joseph--who draws on movement, music, visuals, and words--is always an arresting performer. But he's also a new kind of artist for the 21st century: he roots his artistic projects in his activism  and vice versa.

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Our Class

EXCLUSIVE ONLINE CONTENT:

The Ghosts of Memory


Photos by Alexander Iziliaev.

 

Our Class

by Tadeusz Słobodzianek

Wilma Theater, Philadelphia (October 12-November 13, 2011)

Photos by Alexander Iziliaev


Marathon Theater Video

Marathon Theater: An Interview with Jonathan Kalb

Freedom Club

Freedom Club

In Adriano Shaplin's fever dream of American fanaticisms past and future, the historical trauma of Abraham Lincoln's assassination is juxtaposed with the dystopian prospect of new twenty-first century extremisms. This provocative drama suggests that political rage is bred in the American bone and asks whether violent histories are doomed always to repeat themselves.
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