Editor's note.(cultural exchange and American theater)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
American Theatre, May, 2002
Cultural exchange: The term sounds almost quaint now, a little out of date, like "communist conspiracy" or women's lib." Cultural exchange has had a powerful impact, nevertheless, on America's theatrical life, and it was only in 1985 that Martha Coigney of the International Theatre Institute/U.S.
declared in these pages, "Internationalism is now a chic word in American theatre." Chic happens (as Forrest Gump might put it), but it seldom lasts. It was an artistic and a political loss when our government's sponsorship of cultural exchange-and the ...
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