Table of Contents
Features:
Up from the Mississippi Delta
The brutal 1955 murder of Emmett Till, which helped spark the Civil Rights Movement, casts long, dark shadows on three new theatre works
by Carl Hancock Rux
Frame by Frame
5 photographers contemplate the move from film to digital in documenting theatrical moments
by Kevin Berne, Michal Daniel, T. Charles Erickson, Rivka Katvan and Joan Marcus
Dream Team of Disciplines
Can NPAC's ambitious agenda for action make a difference? That all depends on a less-than-perfect union of performing arts constituencies
by Jim O'Quinn
PLAYSCRIPT: Stunning
David Adjmi's searing drama looks at an insular Syrian-Jewish Brooklyn community rarely represented in literature. Plus, an interview with the playwright by Marian Seldes
Departments:
From the Executive Director
Democracy in Action
News in Brief
Plus: Entrances & Exits; Awards & Prizes; In Memoriam
Front & Center
Production Notebook
Sometimes a Great Notion at Portland Center Stage
Currents
World Puppetry Festival in Perth, Australia
by Eileen Blumenthal
Opinion
Theatre and sustainability
by Mike Lawler
Books
Four new books about Shakespeare
by Robert Brustein
Strategies
Two bi-coastal companies
by Chloe Veltman
Global Spotlight
20 Questions
Ron OJ Parson