Theater
Same Difference: On Caryl Churchill’s A Number
By David KilpatrickCaryl Churchill’s penchant for innovation and experimentation has earned her a secure place among anyone’s list of most important contemporary dramatists
In Dialogue
Fractured Language: Ann Marie Healy
By Jason GroteBOOTS: Now that is something. Some thing. NANETTE: … BOOTS: I tell you. I just saw something….
How to Build a Better Mousetrap: On Creating an Audience For New Work
By Jeffrey M. JonesIntegrating new, experimental work into the repertoire of established theaters is an ongoing problem, fueled in part by the fear that the loyal if slightly nebulous “subscriber audience” will be lost.
Shards of Beckett: Théâtre Trouvé’s Broken Window
By Pamela NewtonMercedes Murphy, founder of the Williamsburg-based Théâtre Trouvé, appears to be of the same school as French director and theater philosopher Antonin Artaud: she seeks to create art that will jolt spectators out of complacency and numbness and into contact with what is essentially true, painful, and universal in the human experience.
