American Theatre back issues from September 2007:
Editor's note.
Sep 01, 2007; ... During the many years that American Theratre was a primarily black-and-white magazine, theatrical design got short shrift in our pages--not because we didn't attempt to cover that essential discipline and the artists who practice it, but because without the element of color, it's virtually ...
Listening for Koltes.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
Sep 01, 2007; ... We are a team of artists who were involved in Koltes New York 2003, a festival of productions of new American translations of plays by Bernard-Marie Koltes that were commissioned with funds from Etant Donnes, the French-American Fund for the Performing Arts. The productions were performed ...
Corrections.(LETTERS)(Correction notice)
Sep 01, 2007 ... Several photos accompanying Steven Sater's piece on Spring Awakening (July/August '07) were mislabeled. The actor playing Hanschen is Jonathan B. Wright. Two photos identified the Adult Man as Stephen Spinella, who appeared on Broadway. However, the photo on the left was taken Off Broadway ...
The Marquez factor.(FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)(Gabriel Garcia Marquez )(Conference news)
Sep 01, 2007; ... In late May, when Gabriel Garcia Marquez returned home to Aracataca, Colombia, for the first time in more than 20 years, he rolled ceremoniously into town on a train painted with yellow butterflies. Aracataca is the place that inspired Macondo, the village in One Hundred Years of Solitude ...
Theatre Facts 2006.(TCG ON THE WEB)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... TCG's annual report on the health of the American not-for-profit theatre field was released in July. Theatre Facts 2006, written by Zannie Giraud Voss and Glenn B. Voss, with TCG staff members Christopher Shuff and llana B. Rose, examines details for fiscal years ending between Sept. 30, ...
'American Theatre' Affiliated Writers.(GRANT RECIPIENTS)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... Three arts writers have been competitively selected as American Theatre's 2007-08 Affiliated Writers, a program funded by the Minneapolis-based Jerome Foundation. The New York City-based writers Justin Boyd and Lori Ann Laster and Minneapolis-based Christy DeSmith will contribute regularly ...
New Generations Program.(GRANT RECIPIENTS)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... TCG has announced the seventh round of its New Generations Program in three categories. The nine Future Leaders teams--early-career theatre professionals paired with mentors--are: Jesus Reyes, mentored by Diane Rodriguez at Los Angeles's Center Theatre Group; Andy Alcala, mentored by ...
American Theatre online.(TCG ON THE WEB)
Sep 01, 2007 ... WEB EXCLUSIVE: The PQ in Photos An online slide show from the Prague Quadrennial accompanies Randy Gener's essay on the international design exposition. FROM THIS ISSUE: 2007 TCG National Conference Eliza Bent reports on the TCG ...
Sliding screens Fantastique.(NEWS IN BRIEF)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... NEW YORK CITY: If you missed it three years ago, here's another chance to catch it. Puppeteer Basil Twist's mesmerizing spectacle for sliding screens, Dogugaeshi, glides from curtain to curtain and screen to screen Sept. 12-22 at the Japan Society. This lush, colorful show--with the live ...
With songs in its heart.(NEWS IN BRIEF)(Colorado Festival of World Theatre)
Sep 01, 2007 ... COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO.: It's a wild menu--Stephen Sondheim and South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission--but this year's Colorado Festival of World Theatre sings of the emotional travails of both subjects Sept. 20-30 at performing arts venues throughout the Colorado Springs ...
Sing sing sing.(NEWS IN BRIEF)(The Angle of the Sun at the New York Musical Theatre Festival)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... NEW YORK CITY: When The Angle of the Sun plays its first note at the New York Musical Theatre Festival on Sept. 17, a milestone will have been gained: NYMF's 100th production. Not too shabby for an event in its fourth year, especially when its founders, Kris Stewart and Isaac Robert ...
Sharing Geva's spotlight.(NEWS IN BRIEF)(Geva Theatre Center)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... ROCHESTER, N.Y.: Regional pride will run high this year as Geva Theatre Center devotes its second stage to a season-long showcase of the best theatre that the Greater Rochester area has to offer. Twenty-three professional and amateur theatres responded to a call in February for proposals, ...
Philly up.(NEWS IN BRIEF)(Philly Fringe)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... PHILADELPHIA: The Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe, running through Sept. 15, unveil another crop of dance works and audacious theatre pieces. Most are calculated to disturb. For example, hometown favorite Pig Iron Theatre Company has reworked Shakespeare's Measure for ...
Bob and Molly and Zhang tell gallery stories.(NEWS IN BRIEF)(Robert Wilson, Molly Picon and Zhang Huan)
Sep 01, 2007; ... NEW YORK CITY: Molly Picon was the sweetheart of the Yiddish Lower East Side. Robert Wilson remains the iconic darling of the American avant-garde. And Chinese bad boy Zhang Huan has been tagged the pied piper of post-Tiananmen performance art. This month, all three artists have their own ...
Puppets and pageants.(NEWS IN BRIEF)(Hip Pocket Theatre)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... FORT WORTH, TEX.: The 14-acre outdoor venue that's home to Hip Pocket Theatre used to be a shooting range and is still dotted with concrete gun rests and a labyrinth of berms. Two puppet artists, Erin K. Orr and Chris M. Green, arrive from New York Sept. 3-16 to transform this unusual ...
'Doctor Faustus' for the digital age.(NEWS IN BRIEF)(Leon Ingulsrud)
Sep 01, 2007; ... KALAMAZOO, MICH.: In Leon Ingulsrud's April production of Doctor Faustus at Western Michigan University, Mephistopheles made his entrance as a black silhouette, as evil figures have been wont to do ever since someone thought to hang a sheet in front of a candle. "But then he started doing ...
The new downtown.(NEWS IN BRIEF)(New York's Prelude Festival)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... NEW YORK CITY: With the slow demise of alternative weeklies and the rise of corporate brand names, it's become harder to discern who's truly who and what's really what in New York's proverbial downtown theatre scene. The good news is that, for five years now, the annual PRELUDE festival ...
Indie mood.(NEWS IN BRIEF)(Rhinoceros Theater Festival)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... CHICAGO: The 19th annual Rhinoceros Theater Festival, run by Curious Theatre Branch and Prop Thtr, bears no theme to follow up last year's Beckett motif, except perhaps a numeric one, in that from now through Nov. 4 Chicagoans with a taste for indie theatre will be able to see one premiere ...
UCLA confidential.(NEWS IN BRIEF)(University of California, Los Angeles)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... LOS ANGELES: An Iraq war drama by the National Theatre of Scotland and a rock-infused Medea from Amsterdam's Dood Paard kick off the sixth International Theatre Festival at UCLA Live September-December. A 2006 Edinburgh Festival favorite, Black Watch, debuting Sept. 18, chronicles the ...
Ransom letters.(Rehearsing the American Dream: Arthur Miller's Theater)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... AUSTIN, TEX.: Just weeks before Arthur Miller died in 2005, the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas-Austin acquired the bulk of his heretofore private correspondence. The work of cataloguing has only just begun, meaning the documents won't be available for a ...
Zimmerman's Met match.(NEWS IN BRIEF)(Mary Zimmerman at the Metropolitan Theater)
Sep 01, 2007 ... NEW YORK CITY: Though Mary Zimmerman is best known for the lyrical theatre pieces she develops at her Chicago artistic homes--Lookingglass Theatre Company and the Goodman Theatre--she's not exactly an opera rookie. She's staged two Philip Glass pieces, serving as co-librettist on one of ...
Kevin Moriarty.(ENTRANCES & EXITS)(new artistic director of Dallas Theater Center)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... Kevin Moriarty will take the helm of Dallas Theater Center this month as the company's fifth artistic director in its nearly 50-year history. Moriarty has been the artistic director of the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, N.Y., for the past seven years, as ...
William Carden.(ENTRANCES & EXITS)(Ensemble Studio Theatre)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... Ensemble Studio Theatre, where William Carden took on the producing artistic director position in April, now has a new ...
Barry Ivan.(ENTRANCES & EXITS)(new executive of North Shore Music Theater)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... Director and choreographer Barry Ivan has been appointed as the new artistic director and executive producer of North Shore Music Theatre in ...
Redmoon Theater.(ENTRANCES & EXITS)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... Redmoon Theater of Chicago has announced a change to its management structure with the addition of an executive director position. Christopher Schram stepped ...
Stephen Greco.(NEWS IN BRIEF)(Dance Theater Workshop executive director)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... Stephen Greco is the new executive director of Dance Theater Workshop in New York City. He has served as a ...
Richard Stein left his position as executive director of Laguna Playhouse.(ENTRANCES & EXITS)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... Richard Stein left his position as executive director of Laguna Playhouse, in Laguna Beach, Calif., in June to pursue artistic projects. Stein led the ...
Freddie Ashley has replaced Bill Fennelly as artistic director.(ENTRANCES & EXITS)(Actors Express Theatre)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... Freddie Ashley has replaced Bill Fennelly as artistic director of Atlanta's Actors Express Theatre. Fennelly resigned due to a production commitment in New York. Ashley has directed several plays for Actors ...
Dawn McAndrews.(NEWS IN BRIEF)(new artistic director of Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... The Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis has appointed its first artistic director: Dawn McAndrews. She has served, since 1999, as ...
J. Daniel Herring.(ENTRANCES & EXITS)(Stage One artistic director)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... After 20 years at Louisville, Ky.'s Stage One, artistic director J. Daniel Herring is leaving to take an ...
At New York City's Sonnet Repertory Theatre, founding artistic director Robyn Parrish.(ENTRANCES & EXITS)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... At New York City's Sonnet Repertory Theatre, founding artistic director Robyn Parrish has become executive director, making way for co-artistic directors Tiffany ...
Elisbeth Challener.(ENTRANCES & EXITS)(Zachary Scott Theatre Center)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... Elisbeth Challener is the new managing director of Zachary Scott Theatre Center in Austin, Tex. Challener has served as executive director of Montalvo Center for the Arts in ...
Donna Law.(ENTRANCES & EXITS)(Orlando Shakespeare Theater)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... Donna Law has joined Orlando Shakespeare Theater in Florida as its managing director, ...
Jameson Gilpatric replaces Lori Monnier.(ENTRANCES & EXITS)(Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... Also getting a new managing director is Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre in Pennsylvania. Jameson Gilpatrick replaces Lori Monnier, who left to become ...
Brandon Jepson.(ENTRANCES & EXITS)
Sep 01, 2007 ... Brandon Jepson--longtime company member of Seattle's Wing-It Productions--has been named ...
Brian Voelker.(ENTRANCES & EXITS)(TimeLine Theater Company managing director)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... Brian Voelker, managing director of TimeLine Theater Company in Chicago since 2002, has relocated to Louisville, Ky., and will now be honored ...
San Francisco.(ENTRANCES & EXITS)
Sep 01, 2007 ... Golden Thread Productions is also losing its managing director as John Lehrack ...
Margie Salvante.(ENTRANCES & EXITS)(Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia executive director)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... Margie Salvante took on the executive directorship of the Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia ...
Angela McGuire Hays.(ENTRANCES & EXITS)(North Carolina Theatre Conference)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... Angela McGuire Hays has been named executive director of the North Carolina Theatre Conference, taking on the leadership of the service ...
Gerding Theater at the Armory.(AWARDS & PRIZES)(Portland's arts center)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... Portland Center Stage's new Gerding Theater at the Armory, the nation's first performing arts center to receive the highest LEED rating (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design; see American Theatre Nov. '06), was ...
Chicago's annual Jeff Citations anointed 38 non-union productions from the 2006-07 season.(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... Chicago's annual Jeff Citations anointed 38 non-union productions from the 2006-07 season. House Theatre of Chicago's The Sparrow, Bohemian Theatre Ensemble's Side Show, TimeLine Theatre Company's Fiorello! and Eclipse Theatre Company's Blues for an Alabama Sky all scored ...
The Cincinnati Enquirer.(AWARDS & PRIZES)(Acclaim Awards)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... The Cincinnati Enquirer and the League of Cincinnati Theatres handed out Acclaim Awards, including to Know Theatre's See What I Wanna See, Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati's Opus and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park's Ace. Three artists at the start of their ...
The Philadelphia Theatre Initiative (PTI) awarded a total of nearly $1 million in project-support grants.(AWARDS & PRZES)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... The Philadelphia Theatre Initiative (PTI) awarded a total of nearly $1 million in project-support grants to be distributed over two years to 13 organizations--1812 Productions, Amaryllis Theatre Company, Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Arden Theatre Company, Asian Arts ...
In the same city, 12 artists received Pew Fellowships of $50,000 each in the categories of choreography, music composition and craft.(AWARDS & PRIZES)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... In the same city, 12 artists received Pew Fellowships of $50,000 each in the categories of choreography, music composition and craft. Among the dozen were Charles Anderson, founder of dance theatre X; composer King Britt, who scored Anderson's Tar ...
Playwrights David Adjmi and Christina Ham have received McKnight Advancement Grants.(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... Playwrights David Adjmi and Christina Ham have received McKnight Advancement Grants. The scripts that earned them this $25,000 boon can be read at www.pwcenter.org. The Playwrights' ...
Ameenah Kaplan.(AWARDS & PRIZES)(Richard E. Sherwood awardee)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... The multi-threat Ameenah Kaplan, a writer, actor, percussionist, choreographer and director, has been picked for the newly expanded $10,000 Richard E. Sherwood Award from ...
Theatre Bay Area handed out a bevy of CA$H.(AWARDS & PRIZES)(Creative Assistance for the Small and Hungry)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... Theatre Bay Area handed out a bevy of CA$H (Creative Assistance for the Small and Hungry) grants supporting upcoming projects to the organizations Central Works, My Opera Institute/American-Orient Performing Arts and Rococo Risque, and to ...
During a Sardi's luncheon in June, the League of Professional Theatre Women honored the three-year-old 3Graces Theater Co.(AWARDS & PRIZES)(Lucille Lortel Award and Ruth Morley Designing Women Award)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... During a Sardi's luncheon in June, the League of Professional Theatre Women honored the three-year-old 3Graces Theater Co. with its ...
Eric Bentley.(AWARDS & PRIZES)(Robert Chesley Foundation awardee)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... The Robert Chesley Foundation presented a lifetime achievement award to Eric Bentley for the critic and author's championing of ...
The 2007 recipients of Georgia Arts & Entertainment Legacy Awards.(AWARDS & PRIZES)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... The 2007 recipients of Georgia Arts & Entertainment Legacy Awards are director Kenny Leon, artistic head of True Colors Theatre Company; ...
James Spruill.(AWARDS & PRIZES)
Sep 01, 2007 ... The StageSource Theatre Hero Award for service to the Boston theatre ...
Micheal Kahn.(AWARDS & PRIZES)
Sep 01, 2007 ... In the nation's capital, Shakespeare Theatre Company's artistic director, ...
Randy Gener.(AWARDS & PRIZES)(Filipinas Magazine Achievement Award)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... American Theatre senior editor Randy Gener was recognized with the Arts & Culture Award during ...
Edward M. Satell.(AWARDS & PRIZES)(philanthropist; Edwin Forrest Awards)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... The Walnut Street Theatre of Philadelphia honored philanthropist Edward M. Satell (one of its ...
Joan Tisch.(AWARDS & PRIZES)(Alliance for the Arts awardee)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... The Alliance for the Arts honored Joan Tisch and her daughter and son Laurie and ...
At its yearly gala, Manhattan's Repertorio Espanol celebrated the contributions of longtime supporter.(AWARDS & PRIZES)
Sep 01, 2007 ... At its yearly gala, Manhattan's Repertorio Espanol celebrated the contributions of longtime supporter ...
Karen Gjelsteen and Ruben Van Kempen.(AWARDS & PRIZES)(Gregory A. Falls Sustained Achievement Awardees)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... Theatre Puget Sound chose two recipients from the Seattle theatre scene for its 10th annual Gregory A. Falls Sustained Achievement Award: scenic ...
Lynn Nottage and Luis Valdez.(AWARDS & PRIZES)(Arkansas Repertory Theatre awardees)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... Arkansas Repertory Theatre honored Lynn Nottage and Luis Valdez in August for their career achievements at ...
The New York downtown clown "Golden Nose" awards.(AWARDS & PRIZES)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... The New York Downtown Clown "Golden Nose" Awards put a grin on audience favorite Mark Gindick's face--but Joel Jeske had the last ...
Several newly established awards ratcheted up the applause this summer: at the Last Frontier Theatre Conference.(AWARDS & PRIZES)(Jerry Harper Service Award, Soho Rep Dorothy Strelsin Playwriting Fellow, Jacob's Pillow Award, Broadway in Chicago Emerging Theater Award)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... Several newly established awards ratcheted up the applause this summer: At the Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Valdez, Alaska, in June, the first Jerry Harper Service Award was presented to Michael Warren Powell, artistic director of Circle East Theater Company in New York, who helped ...
More playwrights with winning scripts: Steven Dietz's Sherlock Holmes: the final adventure received the 2007 Edgar Allan Poe Award.(AWARDS & PRIZES)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... More playwrights with winning scripts: Steven Dietz's Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure received the 2007 Edgar Allan Poe Award for best play from the Mystery Writers of America (see sidebar, page 45); a posse of Bay Area scribes--Tim Bauer, Daniel Heath, Aaron Loeb, Evelyn Pine, Molly ...
Larry Leon Hamlin: 1948-2007.(IN MEMORIAM)(Obituary)
Sep 01, 2007; ... Packing and preparations are underway for the family reunion. The auspicious occasion takes place every other year in Winston-Salem, N.C. You can bet they will all be there--the elders, the writers, the actors and the designers, "all cousins." I look forward to seeing the godfather, Woodie ...
George C. Izenour.(theater designer)(Obituary)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... George C. Izenour died in March at age 94. The innovative theatre designer is known for inventing the electronic theatre-lighting dimming system, first used at the Yale School of Drama, where he established an ...
Gilbert Mead.(arts philanthropist)(Obituary)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... Arts philanthropist Gilbert Mead died in May at age 76. Heir to the Consolidated Papers fortune and a retired NASA physicist, Mead, with his wife Jaylee, gave more than $50 million to theatres in Washington, D.C. He established the Mead Family Foundation, which gives annual education ...
Amy Sullivan.(Eugene O'Neill Theater Center executive director)(Obituary)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2007 ... Former executive director of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center Amy Sullivan died of cancer in June at age 54. Her four-year tenure at the O'Neill yielded the National Theater Institute summer learning program and the renovation of the National Historic Landmark Monte Cristo Cottage and the ...