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Volume 26
Number 1
Winter 2006

ARTICLES

Hungarian Playwright János Háy: Mythologizing Reality
Eugene BrogyÁnyi

Rear Guard Versus Avant-Garde: New Frame for an Old Debate in Latvian Theatre at Splemanu Nakts 2005, Riga
Jeff Johnson

PAGES FROM THE PAST

The Adventures of Voskovec and Werich in America, 1939-1945
Jarka M. Burian

Lunacharsky on Revolutionary Laughter
Daniel Gerould

We Are Going To Laugh
Anatoly Lunacharsky

REVIEWS

Exploring New Territories with Ancient Tools:
Gardzienice’s Elektra in New York
Margaret Araneo

“Sacred and Pure Like First Love”: Gombrowicz’s Marriage Staged by Elma Nuganen
Aneta Mancewicz

White Butterflies, Plaited Chains: A Live Metamorphosis by Theatre-In-A-Basket from Lviv, Ukraine
Larissa M. L. Z. Onyshkevych

Three Václav Havel’s Plays Off-Off Broadway
Veronika TuckerovÁ

Volume 26
Number 2
Summer 2006

IN MEMORIAM

Zygmunt Duczyñski, 1951-2006
Kathleen Cioffi

ARTICLES

Wrocław-Breslau: Searching for New Theatrical Space and Local Identity
Magdalena GoLaczyÑska

Theatre in Hungary
From Past to Pécs, 1984-2004
Robert Cohen with AndrÁs MÁrton

PAGES FROM THE PAST

Remembering Maria Lilina: Part I
Maria Ignatieva

REVIEWS

Staging Lithuania’s ‘New Situation’: Cezaris Graužinis’s Attempts on Her Life
Jeff Johnson

Slava’s Snowshow at the Union Square Theatre: A Long-Running Clown Act in New York City
Olga Muratova

Satanas Ex Machina: Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita in Vladimir Bortko’s Cinematic Adaptation
Ekaterina Sukhanova

Redeeming Nudity: Gombrowicz’s Operetta at La MaMa, New York City
Krystyna Lipiñska ILLakowicz

Volume 26
Number 3
Fall 2006

ARTICLES

Back to Novi Sad, a Serbian Athens
Dragan KlaiC

One Table and Two Theatres
Artur Grabowski

PAGES FROM THE PAST

The Bim-Bom Theatre: Cultural De-Stalinization of the Polish People’s Republic
Anna Muller

Reflections of a Bim-Bom Actor:
Mieczysław Kochanowski, Gdañsk 2004

Lilina and Kachalov in Letters
Maria Ignatieva

Remembering Maria Lilina: Part II
Maria Ignatieva

REVIEWS

The Thirteenth Sibiu International Theatre Festival
Dasha Krijanskaia

Don Quixote and The Birds in Dubrovnik 2006
Marvin Carlson

The Dubrovnik Summer Festival 2005
Yvonne Shafer

Volume 27
Number 1
Winter 2007

ARTICLES

Mikhail Butkevich’s Theatre of Players: Theatre and the Art of the Game
Maxim Krivosheyev

Toward a Theatre of Players
Mikhail Butkevich

The Grotowski Center in Wrocław: Performances at the Headquarters of Paratheatre!?
Seth Baumrim

PAGES FROM THE PAST

Before Stoppard: Merezhkovsky’s Bakunin Play
Laurence Senelick

REVIEWS

The Varna Summer Festival 2006
Dasha Krijanskaia

Milena Marković’s Tracks: May God Look Upon Us at the Utopian Theatre Asylum
Cheryl Black

Belarus Theatre Is Free (When It’s Not in Belarus): A Night of Free Theater, Culture Project’s IMPACT Festival 2006
Evelina Mendelevich

Lyubimov’s Souf(f)le: Life and Death at the Taganka
Nicholas Rzhevsky

Rimas Tuminas’s Three Sisters in Moscow
Maria Ignatieva

Two New York Productions of Uncle Vanya: Should They Laugh in the Fourth Act?
Olga Muratova

The Gospels of Childhood at Brzezinka
Marvin Carlson

Volume 27
Number 2
Summer 2007

ARTICLES

In Search of Heroes: New Drama Festival, Moscow, 2006
Robyn Quick

Polish Theatre 2006: A Director’s Report
Kazimierz Braun

Alexander Morfov: Bulgarian Director on Russian Soil
Mayia Pramatarova

Spelmanu Nakts 2006: Searching for New Themes in Latvian Theatre
Jeff Johnson

REVIEWS

Several Witty Observations (à la Gombrowicz) at La MaMa
Thomas Edmund Starky

Różewicz’s Card Index Scattered in Its U.S. Premiere: Recycling, Discarding, and Adding the Fragments
Mark F. Tattenbaum

Wrocżaw Puppet Theatre: The Last Escape
Martha Kirszenbaum

Vassa Zheleznova at the Horizon Theatre Rep: Miracle on a Small Stage
Olga Muratova

Evgeny Onegin at the Bolshoi Theatre: A Purely Russian Affair
Maria Ignatieva

Volume 27
Number 3
Fall 2007

ARTICLES

Nova Drama Slovakia
John Freedman

Polish Theatre 2006: Director’s Report: Part II
Kazimierz Braun

The New Russian Hamlet: Without a Hero
Anna Shulgat

A Timeline of New Romanian Playwriting: In the Context of U.S.-U.K.-E.U. Exchange
Roberta Levitow

REVIEWS

Double Edge Theatre’s Republic of Dreams: La MaMa New York City, March 2007
Victoria Nelson

Photographic Memory: Lydia Scheuermann Hodak’s Marija’s Pictures
Kurt Taroff

The Seagull: Lost in Eifmann’s Ballet Translation
Evelina Mendelevich

Volume 28
Number 1
Winter 2008

IN MEMORIAM

"Stephan Balint (1943-2007)"

Eszter Szalczer

ARTICLES

"Street Theatre in Groznjan Croatia:

Eye on the Sparrow, Wade in the Water, and Lost Forest"

Jane McMahan

"The British Grotowski Project"

Pablo Pakula

"An Interview with Boris Nikolayevich Lubimov"

Maria Ignatieva

UNESCO Chair of Theatre - ITI

International Theatre Festival in the Carpathians"

Mark F. Tattenbaum

REVIEWS

"Silence and Extinction in Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors:

Paradzhanov at BAM, November 2007"

Rory Finnin

Volume 28
Number 2
Spring 2008

ARTICLES

"ZAR and Other Microcultures of "Grotland""

Kathleen Cioffi

"Site-Specific Performances in Lower Silesia"

Magdalena Golaczynska

 

"New Times Ask for New Voices:

A Short History of Contemporary Lithuanian Playwriting"

Aiste Ptakauske


"An Interview with Yelena Ezerskaya"

Helene Lemeleva


"The Croatian Center of ITI's Third Annual Showcase Croatia:

October 17-21, 2007

Margaret Araneo

 

"An Open Lesson with the Moscow Art Theatre School:

February 7-8, 2008

Jane House

PAGES FROM THE PAST

"Glikeria Fedotova, Stanislavsky's Artistic Mother"

Maria Ignatieva

Volume 28
Number 3
Fall 2008

IN MEMORIAM

"Jozef Szajna, 1922-2008"

Daniel Gerould

ARTICLES

"Moshe Yassur: A Life in Theatre"

Beate Hein Bennett

"Memory and Oblivion in Jan Klata's Transfer!"

Magadalena Golaczynska

"Stanislavsky's Death: August 7, 1938"

Maria Ignatieva

"The Global Scenes Festival: June 21 to 22, 2008"

April Donahower

"The 2007 Prague Quadrennial:

Eleventh International Exhibition of Scenography and Theatre"

Ana Martinez

REVIEWS

"Alexander Mofrov's Exiles"

Robert Blush

Volume 29
Number 1
Winter 2009

ARTICLES

"The Hidden Work of Grotowski's Theatre of Sources"

Kermit Dunkelberg

"In a Different Light: Virlana Tkacz"

Olena Jennings

"The Theatre of Michael Zadara"

Allen J. Kuharski

PAGES FROM THE PAST

"The Varpakhovsky Theatre Dynasty: From Meyerhold's Troupe Through Stalin's Camp

to Moscow and Montreal"

Mayia Pramatarova

REVIEWS

"Made in Poland at 59E59"

Thomas Starky

Volume 29
Number 2
Spring 2009

ARTICLES

"The Divine Comedy Festival:

Journey Through the Circles of Polish Theatre"

Robyn Quick

"The Les Kurbas Theatre, Lviv, 2008"

Seth Baumrin

REVIEWS

"Circus Havel: Václav Havel's Leaving and Its Reception"

Stepán Simek

"Ivona Buffa, Ivona Seria: Philippe Boesmans's Yvonne Princesse de Bourgogne, Opéra National de Paris, Palais Garnier, February 5, 2009"

Allen J. Kuharski

"Exodus, Resonance, and Innovation in Kazimierz Braun's Production of The Cherry Orchard"

Ariel Nereson

Volume 29
Number 3
Spring 2009

ARTICLES

"'A Series of Openings': The Year of Grotowski in New York"

Ben Spatz

"Grotowski's Theatre of Sources Expeditions, 1970-1980"

Kermit Dunkelberg

"Replikas of Apocalypsis cum Figuris and The Constant Prince by the NU Classic Theatre"

Margaret Araneo

PAGES FROM THE PAST

"A Theatrical Zigzag:

Doctor Dapertutto, Columbine's Veil, and the Grotesque"

Dassia N. Posner

"House of Interludes:Columbine's Veil

Doctor Dappertutto (Vsevolod Meyerhold)


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