Table of Contents

Features:

Opening the Golden Gate
For generations of Asian-American artists in the Bay Area, life in the theatre has meant a passionate struggle for opportunity and change
By Lily Tung Crystal

Small Rooms Full of Words
For Enda Walsh's damaged characters, talk is both a prison and an escape route
By Christopher Wallenberg

Departments:

Editor's Note

From the Executive Director
Only Connect

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

Front & Center

Production Notebook
Quilters at Denver Center Theatre Company

People
Playwright Peter Sinn Nachtreib
By Margot Melcon

Russ Tutterow of Chicago Dramatists
By Kerry Reid

First Person
Velina Hasu Houston on Silk Road Theatre Project's DNA Trail

Critic's Notebook
Randy Gener on Middle Eastern–American drama

Antecedents
David Herskovits on Williams, Kazan and Camino Real

Currents
Garrett Eisler on 21st-century Odets interpretations

Books
Carl Hancock Rux on a Spalding Gray bio; Randy Gener on a critical survey of American playwriting

Strategies
Eliza Bent on using cell phones to engage audiences

Global Spotlight

March On Stage

20 Questions
for Gregory Mosher