Table of Contents
Features:
Let's Get Physical: What's Happening Now?
U.S. movement teachers prefer either a hybrid or an integration of disciplines in the service of training
the actor's body
By Nicole Potter
Actors on the Move
10 performers analyze the training regimens that animate them on stage
In the Beginning Was the Body
From Lecoq and Laban to Michael Chekhov and Suzuki, U.S. movement training derives its strength and purpose from abroad
By David Bridel
Moved to Silence
A good mime, asserted the late Marcel Marceau, trains to be an athlete of the heart
An interview by Randy Gener
In Search of Stillness
Capturing the purity and energy of not moving is the root of the invisible body
By Ellen Lauren
Departments:
From the Executive Director
2011 Is for Action
News in Brief
Plus: Entrances & Exits; Awards & Prizes; In Memoriam
Front & Center
Production Notebook
A Midsummer Nights' Dream at La Jolla Playhouse
People
Eliza Bent spends a week with Under the Radar's Mark Russell
Seattle stage vets Clayton and Suzanne Corzatte sit down with Stephanie Coen
Opinion
A Change of Scene
Expand the expectations and assumptions in theatrical design training, and students, teachers and the profession will benefit
By Richard Isackes
First Person
Susan Miller on staging her own web series
Currents
Chronicle of an Award Ungiven
The Wasserstein Prize for young female playwrights caused a stir by not naming a 2010 winner. What happened, and what's next?
By Isaac Butler
Antecedents
An excerpt from Eric Grode's new book on the roots of Hair
Books
Albee stages Albee, and actors talk Shakespeare
Strategies
The monthly men of Dad's Garage, by Eliza Bent
20 Questions
for Jose Llana