Table of Contents
Features:
Voice Check: 10 Tips for Healthy Singing
Voice therapists, trainers and performers give expert advice on how to protect and maintain your singing voice
By Chloe Veltman
The Real Shakespearean Tragedy
It's been 400-plus years. Is it time to translate the Bard into understandable English?
By John McWhorter
SPECIAL SECTION: APPROACHES TO THEATRE TRAINING
PILLARS OF VOICE WORK
The Body in the Voice
For Cicely Berry, working on the sound and rhythm in Shakespeare can lead actors to the language within themselves. An interview by Scott Ellis
Tremor in Action
Catherine Fitzmaurice, an innovator of voice work, prescribes a holistic regimen of freedom, release and transcendence. An interview by Paul Meier
The Importance of Daydreaming
For actors, voice training and new discoveries in neuroscience can help bridge the disconnect between mind and body. By Kristin Linklater. PLUS: Andro Linklater on the "Santorini experiment"
A Quest for the Original Voice
A renowned voice teacher advocates feeling, not intellect, to activate the creative visionary within. By Arthur Lessac
Departments:
From the Executive Director
3 New Year Wishes
News in Brief
Plus: Entrances & Exits; Awards & Prizes; In Memoriam
Front & Center
Production Notebook
Hysteria at the Wilma Theater
Critic's Notebook
American Theatre's editors sample the New York Musical Theatre Festival
People
Beowulf Boritt
By Isaac Butler
Currents
Theatre as autism therapy
By Jenni M. Loer
First Person
Playwright Diana Son on the Hamlet that changed her life
Books
Books about the voice
By Pat Angelin and Diane Timmerman
Strategies
Save Our Ship
by Eliza Bent
20 Questions
for Ricky Jay