July 3, 2008

Table of Contents

Features:

What Women Want
Women's Project is off life support and reenergized—but has all the persistence and the passion added up to real change for women in the American theatre?
By Alexis Greene

The Critic as Thinker
How Bentley, Burstein and Kauffmann reimagined American theatre criticism
A discussion at New York City's Philoctetes Center.
Moderated by Roger Copeland

Should You Take a Critic to Lunch?
Tough questions about the state of theatre criticism, with some tentative answers from Denver, San Francisco and Nashville.
by Mark Blankenship

Departments:

Editor's Note

From the Executive Director
This Art Is Mine

News in Brief
Plus: Entrances & Exits; Awards & Prizes; In Memoriam

Front & Center

Production Notebook
The Romance of Magno Rubio at Ma-Yi Theater Company

People
Eisa Davis
by Lori Ann Laster

Currents
Kerry Reid on a dramatization of the 1995 Chicago heat wave

Books
Howard Kissel on Ten Mann's Circle in the Square memoir

Charles Dillingham rounds up how-to books about producing

Strategies
Leadership transitions at Oregon Shakespeare Festival

Global Spotlight

February On Stage

20 Questions
Mark Rylance