Table of Contents
Features:
What's So Funny?
Eight theatre artists who make us laugh (even when we're not supposed to)
• Thomas Bradshaw, by Eliza Bent
• Jennifer Childs, by Krista Apple
• Trip Cullman, by Eric Grode
• Charlie Flynn-McIver and Scott Treadway, by Scott Walters
• Qui Nguyen, by Michael Criscuolo
• Danny Scheie, by James Magruder Holly Twyford, by Nelson Pressley
Present Laughter
Playwrights are amping up the camp, the surreal, the loosey-goosey
By Misha Berson
Departments:
From the Executive Director
Laughter in a Wired World
Angels and Demons Vie in Colorado Springs
A theatrical epic thrives in America's Mecca for Evangelicals
By Eliza Bent
News in Brief
Plus: Entrances & Exits; Awards & Prizes; In Memoriam
Front & Center
Critic's Notebook
Deeper into Ruined, by Randy Gener
Production Notebook
Culture Clash's Palestine, New Mexico at Center Theatre Group
Currents
Pearl Cleage and Margaret Baldwin revisit '60s history with Wendell Brock
People
Scott Shepherd and GATZ, by Christopher Wallenberg
Postmark
Randy Gener reports from Gujarat, India
Books
Gerald Freeman on Strasberg vs. Chekhov, and Gerald Weales on Bard books
Strategies
The Second City spreads the funny around, by Eliza Bent
20 Questions
for David Ives