Jane Greenwood: the making of a mentor Essay
It has taken many forms, both benevolent and oppressive, and has gone by many names since its inception centuries or even millennia ago: mentorship, indentured servitude, apprenticeship (or, if you re...
Sitting in the Citicorp gallery next to Manhattan’s St. Peter’s Church, where she is directing five operas for the multicultural Magic Circle Opera Repertory Company, Alaskan-born theatre artist ...
Jeff Daniels: the Purple Rose of Chelsea is his baby Essay
His face is familiar to anyone with a ticket to the movies or a VCR, but Hollywood isn’t his home. Wearing jeans and a cap, Jeff Daniels sits on a worn couch in a space that triples as green room an...
The 40-odd students in the professional theatre training program at the University of Delaware are sprawled across the floor of what was once a women’s gym, waiting to begin the daily ritual of thei...
The title of this column is intimidating me. It keeps sounding like “Last Will and Testment.” I, Christopher Durang, being of sound mind and not on antidepressants, do hereby bring this edition of...
Julianne Boyd & Joan Micklin Silver: A smooth-as-silk partnership Essay
As collaborators, Julianne Boyd and Joan Micklin Silver are a hand-in-glove match. They share the same artistic and political values, they laugh at the same things, they even finish each other’s sen...
Kathleen Chalfant – an angel with six faces Essay
Many angels grace Angels in America, but only one has wings. This is by playwright Tony Kushner’s design. Forced to endure the purgatory of AIDS-related illnesses and the disease’s horrific effect...
Kathleen McGhee-Anderson: categorical denial Essay
Playwright Kathleen McGhee-Anderson actively defies categorization. She has written successfully for theatre, film and television, crossed with ease the line between drama and comedy, and created an u...
Kenny Raskin – gambling on Everyman Essay
The world was spared another lawyer and got a world-class clown instead when Kenny Raskin’s mother suggested he take an acting course while waiting to go to law school. Now the only U. S. performer...