March 2012
From the Executive Director
Outside/Inside
Editor's Note
from Jim O'Quinn
Strategies
Commemorative Compendiums
By Eliza Bent
Global Spotlight
Compiled by Nicole Estvanik Taylor
FEATURED CONTENT
If Momma Was Married (to Momma)
By Mark Blankenship
The hot-button issue of marriage equality is the topic du jour in a varied spate of new plays
Teeth and Sympathy
An interview by Alexis Soloski
Amy Herzog balances the political and the personal in her dialogue-rich plays
Escape from Neutrality
By Joshua Dachs
A designer of theatres visits 4 great performance spaces you have to see before you die
The Last Minstrel Show?
By Marshall Jones III
Telling the tragic tale of The Scottsboro Boys with happy-go-lucky minstrelsy may show audacity, but it lacks empathy
IN PRINT for March 2012
God of Carnage at Huntington Theatre Company; Michigan scribe Joseph Zettelmaier, by Davi Napoleon; playwright Stefanie Zadravec's life and art collide; David Cote reviews Jonathan Kalb's Great Lengths; 20 questions for Bill Pullman
COVER: Actor Ryan Dietz, left, and playwright Josh Levine (with Hair cast member Kacie Sheik) celebrate on stage at Broadway's St. James Theatre in July 2011, moments after exchanging their wedding vows (photo by Monica Simoes)
ABOVE, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Playwright Stefanie Zadravec; Amanda Schoonover, Dan Hodge and Forrest McClendon read Zadravec's The Electric Baby at PlayPenn (photo by John Flak); playwright Joseph Zettelmaier (photo by Chris Purchis); Jacob Hodgson in Zettelmaier's It Came from Mars, Performance Network Theatre/Williamston Theatre coproduction (photo by Peter Smith)