Table of Contents
Features:
Blow Me Up, Lay Me Down
Sheila Callaghan writes plays with one finger on the fast-forward button
by Sarah Hart
No Place Like Home
Quiara Alegría Hudes tells a Philadelphia story all her own
by Alexis Greene
Let the Games Begin
Itamar Moses's textual acrobatics take aim at the unsayable
by Mark Blankenship
Flight Plan for Success
Business-management guru Jim Collins has some eye-opening ideas about hot to take a theatre organization from good to great
Season Preview 2008-09
Production schedules from coast to coast. Plus, the season's top 10 plays, and theatre professionals across the country tell us what gets their vote as the most exciting work of the new season.
From the Executive Director
How Theatre Saved America, Part 2
News in Brief
Plus: Entrances & Exits; Awards & Prizes; In Memoriam
Front & Center
Production Notebook
In the Heart of America at Rep Stage
Critic's Notebook
Intiman Theatre's A Streetcar Named Desire
by Misha Berson
Temple University's In Conflict
by Krista Apple
Currents
Talking Band
by Randy Gener
James Still at Indiana Rep
by Eric R. Pfeffinger
A discussion about new-play festivals
moderated by Randy Gener
People
Gertrude Hadley Jeannette
by Arlene McKanic
Books
Four histories of musical theatre
by Robert Viagas
Strategies
Two young actors' audition odyssey
by Eliza Bent
Global Spotlight
20 Questions
Carrie Fisher