Performing Arts of Romania at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
ERIC POURCHOT

Croatian Theatre During the Recent War (1990-1995)
DUBRAVKA VRGOC

STOKA Group of Bratislava and the Slovak Theatre
JURAJ SEBESTA

The Emergence of a New Genre in Polish Drama: Plays of Juvenile Crime
JADWIGA KOSICKA

Moscow Buoyed by Touring Companies
JOHN FREEDMAN

PAGES FROM THE PAST

Tarkovsky, or the Burning House, Part II
PETR KRAL (Translated by KEVIN WINDLE)

REVIEWS

Jean Cocteau's The Human Voice in Postmodern Improvisation by the Moscow Theatre Most
IRINA MILLER

Early Soviet Art at New York Galleries
DANIEL GEROULD

Witold Gombrowicz's Ivona, Princess of Burgundia at Columbia University
DAVID GOLDFARB

Václav Havel's Notable Encounters in His Early Theatrical Career
JARKA BURIAN

Mr. Dead and Mrs. Free:
The History of Squat Theatre--a Retrospective Exhibition at Artists Space Gallery
ESZTER SZALCZER

Revelation and Camouflage: Polish Cinema from 1930 to the Present--a Symposium
DAVID GOLDFARB

After Ceausescu: a Discussion of Romanian Arts Issues at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
ERIC POURCHOT

PAGES FROM THE PAST

Tarkovsky, or the Burning House, Part III
PETR KRAL (Translated by KEVIN WINDLE)

REVIEWS

Two from St. Petersburg
JOHN FREEDMAN

Erdman's The Suicide at Columbia University
JENNIFER STARBUCK

Lithuanian Theatre in New York
MARVIN CARLSON

Volodymyr Kuchynsky's Les Kurbas Theatre from Lvov
LARISSA ONYSHKEVYCH

Anca Visdei's Always Together At Ubu Repertory Theater
ERIC POURCHOT

Big Names Keep Moscow Moving: The 1995-1996 Season
JOHN FREEDMAN

The Overcoat in Dramatic Pantomime: Reflections on My Life and Art
RAJMUND KLECHOT

Otrabanda Company& The Fairground Booth
ROGER BABB

The Second Anton Chekhov International Theatre Festival
JOHN FREEDMAN

PAGES FROM THE PAST

Wanda Jakubowska's The Last Stop [Ostatni Etap]
STUART LEIBMAN

Béla Balázs on Wanda Jakubowska's The Last Stop: Three Texts"
Translated by ZSUZSA BERGER and STUART LIEBMAN

REVIEWS

Eastern European Puppet Theatre at the 1996 UNIMA Festival
JANE McMAHAN

Teatr 3/4
BARBARA A. NIEMCZYK

Otrabanda Company Stages Alexander Blok's The Fairground Booth at La Mama E.T.C.
JAMES LEVERETT

Soviet and Polish Avant-Garde Art and Performance at New York Galleries 1996
DANIEL GEROULD

Antigone in New York at the Vineyard Theatre
JENNIFER STARBUCK

Péter Kárpáti's Everyman/Woman: Budapest 1996
JULIE GOCHMAN

Recovering the Theatre's Memory
LAURENCE SENELICK

South Bohemian Jewels: Two Faces of Theatre in Ceský Krumlov
JOE BRANDESKY

Moscow is Watching
SPENCER GOLUB

Latvian Theatre in the 90s: Trends, Repertoire, Personalities
GUNA ZELTINA

The Post-Soviet Politician as Clown: Notes on Joseph Brodsky's Democracy
JOEL SCHECHTER

PAGES FROM THE PAST

Jasienski, Lunacharsky, Moor, and The Mannequins' Ball
DANIEL GEROULD

Chronology of the Life and Work of Bruno Jasienski
DANIEL GEROULD

Introduction to the 1931 Moscow Edition of The Mannequins' Ball by Anatolii Lunacharski
Translated by DANIEL GEROULD

REVIEWS

Underground
LEONARD QUART

Shakhnazarov's American Daughter: Maintaining Balance in a Split World
MARC ROBINSON

A Festival of Polish Theatre at La Mama: Kazimierz Braun's Helena--The Emigrant Queen
SUSAN TENNERIELLO

Jerzy Jarocki's Grzebanie, Based on the Life of Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz.
At the Stary Teatr, Cracow
HELENA M. WHITE

A Contemporary, Russian-Language Three Sisters on Broadway.
At the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
JANE HOUSE

The Moscow Theatre Sovremennik's Into the Whirlwind.
At the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
JENNIFER STARBUCK

Jerzy Grotowski's First Lecture at the Collège de France
ALLEN J. KUHARSKI

Historical Plays in Search of National Identity in Croatian Theatre Today
SANJA NIKCEVIC

Contemporary Croatian War Plays
DARKO LUKIC

Changes in the Croatian Theatre after 1990
BORIS SENKER

The Return of Melodrama in Recent Croatian Theatre
DUBRAVKA VRGOC

PAGES FROM THE PAST

An Unknown Revolution: The Estonian Theatre of the 1960s and 1970s
JAAK RAHESOO

REVIEWS

Kolya
LEONARD QUART

Gombrowicz's Ivona, Directed by Bergman: Cracow, 20 September 1996
HELENA M. WHITE

The American Premiere of Radovan Ivsic's Kralj Gordogan Presented by the Rorschach Group
SUSAN TENNERIELLO

Collaboration as a Process of Creative Discovery: Prague's Sladký Theresienstadt
DENNIS C. BECK

Slawomir Mrozek's The Emigrants at the Seattle Fringe Festival
JOHN LONGENBAUGH

"I Was Always in the Epicenter of Whatever Was Going On . . .":
An Interview With Wanda Jakubowska
STUART LIEBMAN

Tarkovsky's Odes to . . . Joy?
ROGER HILLMAN

FESTIVAL REVIEWS

The Third International Gombrowicz Festival
ALLEN J. KUHARSKI

Theatre in Croatia: The 1997 Summer Festivalsin Dubrovnik and Split
ALLAN GRUABARD and CAROLINE McGEE

Varna: Festival on the Black Sea
GLENN LONEY

REVIEWS

Seagulls Over Niagara
LAURENCE SENELICK

From Craiova to Lincoln Center:
Silviu Purcarete's Les Danaïdes and Contemporary Romanian Theatre
ERIC POURCHOT

Rebuilding the Ruins:
Intercultural Theatre Alliances Between the U.S. and Eastern-Central Europe
TELORY WILLIAMSON

Lyubimov Jubilee
ALMA LAW

The Estonian Drama Festival Revisited
JAAK RAHESOO

Christmas at the Classic Stage Company
JULIA LISTENGARTEN

Poland's New Horizons in Contemporary Dance
LINDA CALDWELL

Contemporary Polish Drama on Foreign Stages
HALINA STEPHAN

Two Recent Productions in Budapest
ESZTER SZALCZER

An Interview With Kazimierz Braun
SUSAN TENNERIELLO

PAGES FROM THE PAST

Selections from the Private Correspondence Between Vsevolod Meyerhold and Fyodor Sologub Concerning Two Productions of The Triumph of Death
IRINA MILLER

REVIEWS

A Performance of Bruno Jasienski's The Dummies' Ball
at the State University of New York, Buffalo
SUSAN TENNERIELLO

The Sovremennik Theatre Company's Production
of The Cherry Orchard at the Martin Beck Theatre
MICHAEL BOLUS

Eimuntas Nekrosius Directs Hamlet
MARVIN CARLSON

Hamlet: A Puppet Tragedy
JENNIFER STARBUCK

Theatre in Central and Eastern Europe in Transition
DRAGAN KLAIC

Between Two Worlds: Ansky's The Dybbuk and Kushner's A Dybbuk
JAMES FISHER

The Stage of Mysteries: The Black Light Theatre of Prague
NINA HEIN

Darko Lukic's Plastic Camellias or Dumas fils as Soap Opera
SANJA NIKCEVIC

The Idea of Art Theatre: Past, Present, and Future Anatoly Smeliansky at Hunter College
MICHAEL BOLUS

You Will Never Get to Moscow: an Interview with Anatoly Smeliansky
MICHAEL BOLUS

PAGES FROM THE PAST

The Fourth Annual Theatre Festival in Moscow and Leningrad 1936
ALMA H. LAW

REVIEWS

The Moscow Art Theatre's Three Sisters at the Brooklyn Academy of Music: February 10, 1998
HELENA M. WHITE

Kushner and the Kabbalah: A Dybbuk
JEFFREY ERIC JENKINS

Meyerhold's Revizor at Yale
SUSAN TENNERIELLO

Somewhere in Europe: The History of Hungarian Cinema
ESZTER SZALCZER

Kauno Mazasis Teatras (The Little Theatre of Kaunas)
JEFF JOHNSON

The American Studio at the Moscow Art Theatre, Spring 1998
TONI HULL

Theatre Criticism Conference in Pula, Croatia
MARVIN CARLSON

Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz: Photography 1910-1930
Metaphysical Portraits
DANIEL GEROULD

Polish Avant-garde, 1920-1945 at the Ubu Gallery
DANIEL GEROULD

REVIEWS

Resurrecting Monsters:
Witkiewicz's Metaphysics of a Two-Headed Calf in Philadelphia
MARCIA L. FERGUSON

Stephen Koplowicz and Company Present
Karel Capek's War with the Newts at New York Dance Theatre Workshop
LARS MYERS

U.B.U./I'll Be Me: From Bydgoszcz to the Bronx
SUSAN TENNERIELLO

In Memoriam

Jerzy Grotowski

ARTICLES

Three Young Czech Directors: Facets of Czech Theatre on the Cusp of the Millennium
JARKA BURIAN

Hungarian Playwright György Spiró on Theatre Culture in Post-communist East Europe
ESZTER SZALCZER

Budapesti Alternatív Színházak: Dog or Wolf?
JEFF JOHNSON

Contemporary Dance in Poland Prepares for the Year 2000
LINDA CALDWELL

Awakening the Humanity in People: an Interview with Krystyna Janda
MAREK KUSIBA and EDWARD ZYMAN

Report from Estonia
MARVIN CARLSON

Cyrk: Polish Circus Posters:
An Exhibit and Panel Discussion on ‘Polish Influence on the Arts'
JENNIFER PARKER STARBUCK

PAGES FROM THE PAST

From Home Masquerades to Public Performance:
Nikolai Evreinov's Production of Fyodor Sologub's Play Night Dances
IRINA MILLER

REVIEWS

The Metamorphosis of Apuleius by Gardzienice
SUSAN TENNERIELLO

Three Sisters in Philadelphia
MARCIA L. FERGUSON

The Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater's Golem
JENNIFER PARKER STARBUCK

Caught in the Act
MELISSA GASPAR

IN MEMORIAM

Lucille Lortel

Paul Schmidt

ARTICLES

Victor Rozov: Alive Forever?
ELISABETH RICH

Interview With Vít Horejs
LARS MYERS

What Do We Care If the Winter Is Cold and Stressful?
Five St. Petersburg Directors: A Generation with an Aversion to Politics
DARIA KRIZHANSKAYA

Fighting Fences: Theatrical Rule-breaking in the Serbian Republic of Bosnia
SONJA KUFTINEC

PAGES FROM THE PAST

Mikhoels in America
MEL GORDON

Did Kurbas Stage King Lear in Moscow?
Unraveling the Mystery of Les' Kurbas's Last Production
NATALIA CHECHEL

REVIEWS

Who's Legs Are Those?
The Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre's Rusalka, the Little Rivermaid
BLANKA KRIVÁNKOVÁ

Tesla's Letters at Ensemble Studio Theatre
JENNIFER PARKER STARBUCK

A Hungarian Film of Woyzeck
ROGER HILLMAN

Interview with Piotr Borowski: Artistic Director of Studium Teatralne, Warsaw
PAUL ALLAIN

PAGES FROM THE PAST

True North?
Nicholas Roerich and the Moscow Art Theatre Production of Peer Gynt, 1912-1913
JOHN McCANNON

Amelia Hertz and Ysolde of the White Hands
JADWIGA KOSICKA

Ysolde of the White Hands
by AMELIA HERTZ (Translated by JADWIGA KOSICKA)

REVIEWS

The Holocaust in Cinema: a Conference Report
STUART LIEBMAN

From Oxford to Bucharest: A Report on the First International Yiddish Theatre Conference at Oxford and on the Yiddish State Theatre in Bucharest in Performance
MOSHE YASSUR

Eastern European Contributions to the Cairo International Festival of Experimental Theatre
MARVIN CARLSON

A Hotel Room in the Town of NN at the Kennedy Center
HELENA M. WHITE

Witkiewicz's Mother at Cinoherní Klub
GERALD WEALES

Psycho-drama in the Disco-rama:
Tonino Guerra's Fourth Chair at Kaunas Mañasis Teatras
JEFF JOHNSON

Petr Lébl: May 1965-December 1999
JARKA BURIAN

Chekhov and the Young Spectators' Theatre
ELISABETH T. RICH

Chekhov at Moscow's Theatre of the South-West: the Twentieth Anniversary
MICHAEL LONG

Memoirs of the Warsaw Uprising
WIESLAW GÓRSKI

Memoirs in Iowa
CYNTHIA GOATLEY

Croatian Theatre at the Close of the Nineties:
From Political Queries to Aesthetic Challenges
DUBRAVKA VRGOC

Frakcija-Magazine for the Performing Arts
DUBRAVKA VRGOC

Kauno Valstybinis Akademinis Dramas Teatras
(The Kaunas State Academic Drama Theatre, Kaunas, Lithuania)
JEFF JOHNSON

REVIEWS

The Crazy Locomotive
JOSEPH ROACH

The Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre's Twelve Iron Sandals
MOLLY PARKER

The Swan: a Lyrical Song For a Dying Culture
JOSHUA ABRAMS

Grotowski at Irvine-and Beyond

Introduction
ROBERT COHEN

Putting a Tree in a Box
ROBERT COHEN

On His Way
JAIRO CUESTA

Grotowski: The Teacher
JAMES SLOWIAK

Reaching Back
HOLLY HOLSINGER

Grotowski's Subjective Drama
RICHARD HORNBY

Postscript in New York: Grotowski after Grotowski
LARS MYERS

Gombrowicz's Ferdydurke

Importing Gombrowicz: Notes on the American Premiere of Ferdydurke
ALLEN J. KUHARSKI

Witold Gombrowicz--Ferdydurke in Polish and English
DAVID A. GOLDFARB

Crossing Lines of Safety: Acting in Witold Gombrowicz's Ferdydurke
ROGER BABB

REVIEWS

Report from the Eighteenth National Theatre Festival of Hungary
ESZTER SZALCZER

Creative Recycling: Yara Arts Group and Circle
KRISTINA LUCENKO

The Visual Poetry of Marina Temkina: Engagement Time at the Florence Lynch Gallery
SUSAN TENNERIELLO

Oleg Yefremov's Funeral: From the Perspective of a Graduate Acting Student
DARRIN BROWNE

Oleg Yefremov (1927-2000): A Final Tribute
ELISABETH RICH

Biomechanics Revisited
SERGEI DREZNIN

Film Research in Poland
STUART LIEBMAN

Czech Cinema: An Interview with Michal Bragant, Czech National Film Archives
JAMES BUGLEWICZ

Kauno Jaunimo Kamerinis Teatras (Kaunas Youth Chamber Theatre, Kaunas Lithuania)
JEFF JOHNSON

PAGES FROM THE PAST

Nina Aizenberg (1902-1974): Russian Designer
ALLA SOSNOVSKAYA

Wajda's Industrial Epic: The Promised Land
LEONARD QUART

REVIEWS

Our God's Brother by Karol Wojtyla
FRED TOLLINI S.J.

Kontakt 2000
HELENA M. WHITE

Unidram 2000 and Teatr Cinema
MARVIN CARLSON

International Playwrights Festival: Moscow Open City
JEFFREY STEPHENS