September 2, 2010

Table of Contents

Features:

Songs for the Way We Live Now
Where's the next great composer/lyricist team destined to revivify the American musical? Maybe right here
By Terry Berliner

Variations on an Obsession
As Moisés Kaufman grapples wtih a musical mystery, his dramaturg ponders the power of the idée fixe
By Mark Bly

He'll See You in Hell
Actor Bill Camp negotiates a risky curve in his high-caliber career
By Kathryn Walat

Departments:

Editor's Note

From the Executive Director
Conference Calling

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

Front & Center

Production Notebook
The Two Gentlemen of Verona at the Guthrie Theater

Currents
Anne Carson's Oresteia
by Cassandra Csencsitz

The Return of West Side Story
by Misha Berson

First Person
Teaching playwriting at Alabama high schools
by Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder

People
Rachel Dickstein
by Aaron Mack Schloff

Strategies
Outsourcing actors?
by Eliza Bent

Global Spotlight

March On Stage

20 Questions
for Janet McTeer