September 2011
FEATURED CONTENT
HERE, There and Everywhere
By Eliza Bent
HERE Arts Center’s ‘Made HERE’ series starts small—but it has big designs
Not Just About Nightingales
By Lonnie Firestone
In a quartet of early plays, the young Williams played at politics and found a style.
Williams Gone Wild
By Eileen Blumenthal
2 iconoclastic productions breathe new life into Stanley, Blanche and the denizens of Vieux Carré
You Are Not the Playwright I Was Expecting
By Thomas Keith
When his reputation tanked, Williams kept writing. How many of his more than 40 late plays do you know?
The Big Time
By Eliza Bent
Artists, institutions and a bevy of performances rubbed up against one another at TCG's biggest national conference ever
The Persistence of Memory
WEB EXCLUSIVE
An extended interview between Austin Pendleton and Michael Wilson about the late Romulus Linney, whose play Over Martinis, Driving Somewhere is published in the September issue. Includes a recording of Linney singing the hymn "Fairest Jesus" and the video of a speech Linney gave in 2005 about the play and his writing craft.
From the Executive Director
Leadership and Heat
Editor's Note
from Jim O'Quinn
Strategies
Living La Vida Locavore
Sweets and savories from down the block attract new theatregoers
By Eliza Bent
Global Spotlight
Compiled by Nicole Estvanik Taylor
IN PRINT for September 2011
Davi Napoleon on companies bred by Trinity Rep; Aaron Posner on why American Players Theatre works so well; Eliza Bent on HERE Arts Center's "Made HERE" video series; Garrett Eisler weights volumes by and about Tennessee Williams; the sleek, percussive Salt Plays at Shotgun Players; 20 Questions with Jeremy Lawrence.
TOP COVER PHOTO: Eric Ruf and Anne Kessler in Un tramway nomme desir at the Comedie-Francaise.
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Romulus Linney in the mid-1960s (photo courtesy of Linney's estate); the Wooster Group's Kate Valk in the web series "Made HERE" (photo by Chiara Clemente/courtesy of Made HERE); Jacques Roy and Jordan Kaplan in King John at the Guerrilla Shakespeare Project (photo by Debby Goldman); Roenia Thompson, Candice D'Meza and Regina Hearne share some Blues in the Night at a Houston Metro stop (photo by Robert Ross).