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2007

Not Since What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, by Alexis Greene
The over-the-top family fighting in Tracy Letts's August: Osage County may have thrilled mainstream reviewers, but the play is shamefully misogynistic.

Rude Awakening, by Shawn-Marie Garrett
Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik's lavishly praised musical adaptation of Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening, now playing on Broadway, is at long last treated to a dissenting opinion.

Todd's Not There, by Karin Badt
An old school chum of filmmaker Todd Haynes traces the emptiness of his new Dylan film, I'm Not There, to a college seminar on semiotics and postmodernism.

Bodies That Matter, by Gitta Honegger
A penetrating essay on the Hamburg premiere of Ulrike Maria Stuart, the latest play by Nobel-winning Austrian playwright Elfriede Jelinek, describes how directors "enact" violence upon her "texts-as-bodies" akin to the violence she "stages in her writing."

Tracking America: Heather Woodbury in conversation with Caridad Svich
In a penetrating and wide-ranging interview, the creator and performer of Whatever and Tale of 2 Cities discusses theatrical artifice, the communist leanings of "global corporatism," the DJ mix as the theatrical form of the future, and much more.

FORUM ON JAN FABRE'S JE SUIS SANG:

Blood Lettings, by Kathleen Dimmick
In a rare visit to the U.S., Jan Fabre and his renowned Belgian company perform Je suis sang, a piece focusing on vestigial medievalism in the contemporary world and the human body's potential for extreme beauty, chaos and destruction.
Psychic Bloodspurts, by Joseph Cermatori
Another view of Fabre's piece reads it as a residue of tragedy--an ecstatic, carnivalesque spectacle perfectly suited for a blighted contemporary world.

Crimes of the P.M., by Terry Stoller
A new "verbatim play" by London's indefatigable and politically fearless Tricycle Theatre holds Tony Blair to account for Britain's role in the war in Iraq.

No Noises Off, by Martin Harries
Target Martin Theater's stage adaptation of two ancient Greek nondramatic texts--Aristotle's Poetics and Plato's Symposium--is delightfully playful, and it also suggests several fresh ways in which theater can "think."

Tony Kushner on Mother Courage, an interview with Jonathan Kalb
One of America's foremost playwrights discusses the Brecht drama that he translated for Meryl Streep and George C. Wolfe in summer 2006.

Terrorists and Christian Husbands, by Martin Harries
In Theatre for a New Audience's beautiful and intelligent pairing of Marlowe's Jew of Malta and Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, the actor F. Murray Abraham plays both notorious Jew-villains in repertory.

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