November 2011
From the Executive Director
Going Dutch
Editor's Note
from Jim O'Quinn
Strategies
Biggies, Meet Smalls
By Rob Weinert-Kendt
Global Spotlight
Compiled by Nicole Estvanik Taylor
FEATURED CONTENT
Talk to Me
By Rita Felciano
The Bay Area's new breed of dance-theatre choreographers are also fluent wordsmiths
Critical Juncture
By David Cote
12 of the nation's most influential theatre critics talk about their towns and their changing roles
IN PRINT for November 2011
Director Sam Gold on the high wire, by Eliza Bent; Mark E. Lieb on fast times in Tampa Bay; Jim O'Quinn on Hungary's National Theatre Festival in Pécs, and Robert Avila on Róbert Alföldi, director of Hungary's National Theatre; the Geffen Playhouse's souped-up production of The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity; Theatre Facts 2010; 20 questions for composer J.D. Steele
ON THE COVER: Erin Mei-Ling Stuart, top, and Jennifer Chien in Love Everywhere, directed and choreographed by Erika Chong Shuch and performed at San Francisco City Hall on Valentine's Day 2010. Photo by Pak Han.
ABOVE, CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: Sam Gold (photo by Aaron Epstein); the National Theatre of Hungary (photo by Joszef Hajdu); a doctor (Béla Pintér, masked) presents three ragged orphans as candidates for adoption in Muck (photo by László Simara).