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Near the end of Derek Walcott’s Dream on Monkey Mountain at the Guthrie Theater, an ad hoc tribunal convicts a long list of dead white people – Aristotle, Plato, Shakespeare, Copernicus, Galileo, Ptolemy, Sir Francis Drake, Christopher Marlowe, Dante, Florence Nightingale and Al Jolson, to name but a few – for the crime of shaping…

Inside a sturdy brick structure that once housed a paper factory in San Francisco’s Mission District, nine women are limbering up in a tiny studio theatre, heads lolling on shoulders, unshod feet pattering the bare wood floor. The students are here, in director Amy Mueller’s “Page to Stage” class offered by Brava! For Women in…

Ron Daniel wanted to begin his third season as associate artistic director of American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Mass. with a special event – “an occasion, something that presumably wouldn’t often be seen in the Boston area.” He and artistic director Robert Brustein decided that Henry IV, Parts I & II would more than adequately…

Coming to Warsaw for the first International Conference on Jewish Theatre in Poland is a sure way of conjuring up Jewish spirits from the past, ancestors only imagined, pictures in the mind’s eye of Sholom Aleichem fiddlers on roofs and Chagall floating horses and lovers. Music is in the air, so to speak; a range…

There’s a character in The Grace of Mary Traverse, the 1985 play that helped bring Timberlake Wertenbaker to the public eye, who neatly prefigures the themes that repeat and recur in varying forms throughout the playwright’s later works. The character’s name is Mrs. Temptwell, and she gleefully, maliciously and single-mindedly leads young Mary through a…

What do these celebrated stage plays and films have in common: A Man for All Seasons, Under Milk Wood, Alfie, The Mousetrap, Voyage Round My Father and Wings? All of them began life as radio dramas for the BBC. American playwrights should take a cue from their British counterparts and be more bold about marketing…

Performance studies is the ideal field of study for the intellectually promiscuous. In what other academic program can you research the death rituals of the Yanomamo tribe, compare them to the construction of the self in a Jane Fonda exercise video, and then present your findings in the form of a modern dance piece? This…

A classic, to hear Mark Twain tell it, is something everyone praises, but nobody reads. In a theatrical context, maybe that would become–nobody produces. At Actors Theatre of Louisville each year, scholars (some travel-weary, some eager, some with the ivory tower equivalent of cabin fever) are joined by critics, plain-clothed practitioners and the idle curious…

The play’s an absolute roller-coaster ride–like riding squalls coming across the sea. If we get it right, it should make the audience’s hair stand on end.” That’s actor Sam Waterston’s judgment about Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Robert Sherwood’s Pulitzer-winning play of 1938. Waterston plays the eponymous role at New York’s Lincoln Center Theater through Jan….

“The events of Romeo and Juliet take place in the space of one week. Why do you think Shakespeare emphasised the short space of time and the speed of the events in the play?” Four hundred years ago, William Shakespeare wrote The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, a popular play that continues to capture the…