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Singing the Standards,
by Gwynn Dujardin
More thoughtful and less sentimental than its playful and endearing facade
suggests, the Tony-winning musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling
Bee "atones for the ways spelling has set Americans apart."
Animating Animals,
by Martin Puchner
The wonder of Tall Horse, Handspring and Sogolon Puppet Companies'
collaborative play about the gift of a giraffe to a 19th-century King
of France, is that the puppets animate the humans as much as the humans
do the puppets.
Profound Pathologies: A Defense
of The Pillowman, by Jonathan Kalb
Martin McDonagh's Broadway success has been called hollow, insincere and
meaningless by several distinguished critics, but it's actually rich and
resonant--a cheeky contribution to a longstanding debate about the artist's
reponsibility to society.
A La Recherche du Temps
Perdu: The Proust Screenplay, by Stanley Kauffmann
On the occasion of Harold Pinter's receipt of the Nobel Prize in Literature,
HotReview.org reprints Kauffmann's moving paean to Pinter's extraordinary,
and still un-made, Proust Screenplay.
The Cyclist, by Vijay
Tendulkar
An English translation of an allegorical, tactically naive journey-play
by India's foremost living dramatist, written in the mid 1990s and intended
to be his last drama. Translator Balwant Bhaneja provides an informative Introduction.
The Age of Terror,
by Terry Stoller
In separate London theaters, two new documentary plays by Robin Soans--Talking
to Terrorists and The Arab-Israeli Cookbook--present a fascinating
range of viewpoints about rage, despair and everyday life in the age of
terror.
Bloody London,
by Caridad Svich
A critical survey of recent theater in London examines a rash of shows
filled with menace and blood, but also (despite local grumbling) a healthy
environment for innovative new work.
Teaching at Hunter,
by Tina Howe
On the occasion of a celebration of her William Inge Festival Award, Tina
Howe shares some thoughts about teaching playwriting at Hunter College
for the past 15 years.
Eight Poems for a New Theater
Century, by NoPassport
Members of a newly reconceived writers collective protest the cancellation
of multicultural playwriting programs at South Coast Rep and the Mark
Taper Forum.
No More Enemies,
by Babak Ebrahimian
Robert Knopf's Theater and Film: A Comparative Anthology--the
first book of its kind--is an ambitious compilation of essays, conversations,
interviews and statements comparing theater and film by and with dozens
of prominent historians, critics and practitioners.
Inviting the Audience:
Phelim McDermott in Conversation with Caridad Svich
The co-founder of the U.K.'s Improbable Theatre speaks about Shockheaded
Peter, The Hanging Man, 70 Hill Lane, the company's history
and technique, their new project (Theater of Blood), and much,
much more.
Tribunals at the Tricycle, Nicolas Kent in Conversation with Terry Stoller