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Theater news and analysis from The Nation

  • February 15, 2001



  • April 5, 2000

    Decline of the West

    “I just wanted to give a taste of what it feels like to be two-sided,” said Sam Shepard, explaining his motivation for writing True West. “It’s a real thing, double nature.

    David Yaffe

  • November 25, 1999

    Curtain Call With Terkel

    Charles Kuralt, who got around a lot himself but wore out faster, once remarked: “When Studs Terkel listens, everybody talks.” Not so many years ago, in fact, we asked Kuralt to review a Studs bo

    John Leonard

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  • November 11, 1999

    Fighting the Art Bullies

    New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has created enormous consternation and publicity in his attempts to censor an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

    Tony Kushner

  • July 8, 1999

    Doctors’ Brains

    It’s 9:45 Tuesday night, and the house lights have just come on after the final scene of Wit–the surprise Off Broadway hit about a terminally ill English professor and her experience as a

    Suzanne Gordon

  • February 18, 1999

    Nonsilence = Death, Too?

    In seven novels and a collection of essays published since 1981, Sarah Schulman has methodically chronicled the history of her longtime neighborhood, Manhattan’s East Village.

    Mark J. Huisman

  • February 11, 1999

    The Footlights’ Non-Glare

    At lunch with a colleague who is devoted to the theater, the discussion turned to Broadway and she mentioned she had seen the revival of On the Town, the buoyant 1944 Comden and Gre

    Rachel Shteir

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