May 17, 2008

Table of Contents

Features:

The Monte Spin
A stone's throw from NYC, audiences line up to see her irreverent stagings of the classics
By Charles Ney

The Playwright Nobody (and Everybody) Knows
The face and the voice are ubiquitous. Wallace Shawn's plays are another matter.
By Don Shewey

PLAYSCRIPT:
'Yellow Face'
The complete text of David Henry Hwang's pointedly autobiographical satire about race, art and public image. Plus, an interview with the playwright by Jack Viertel

Departments:

Editor's Note

From the Executive Director
Primary Concerns

News in Brief
Plus: Entrances & Exits; Awards & Prizes

Front & Center

Production Notebook
The Bluest Eye at Hartford Stage and Long Wharf Theatre

People
Julie Marie Myatt
by Sarah Hart

Craig Wright
by Kevin Nance

Currents
A panel discussion on casting, training and race, introduced by Caridad Svitch

Antecedents
Marion Meade on Dorothy Parker's Ladies of Corridor

Strategies
Fundraising via casting auction at Victory Gardens Theater

Global Spotlight

April On Stage

20 Questions
Kathleen Turner