Theater
Lionel Abel Remembered
By Phong BuiYears ago, while reading Irving Howes autobiography, The Margin of Hope, I came across a humorous but insightful observation made by Lionel Abel about New York during the 1930s: It became the most interesting part of the Soviet Union that one part of the country in which the struggle between Stalin and Trotsky could be openly expressed.
Dante in Dumbo: GAle GAtes et al. Tales it Down and Down and Down
By Alan LockwoodWith hell as other people, the theatrical installationists Gale Gate et al. keep their audience right in the thick of it.
Nothing is True: Lipstick Traces and The 20th Century
By Beth RosembergThis kind of history, which reduces space to a stage, that pays attention to events unfolding in time alone, might be called imperial history
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