Your friends and neighbors: Six World - Theatre Practitioners remind us why we should look beyond our own front yards. (Where in the World).

Few of use think twice about seeing foreign films, especially if they're well made, provocative and subtitled. But the American theatre, film's distant and much older cousin, has only intermittently demonstrated the willingness to seek out and appreciate the work of foreign artists Our theatre, it seems, has inherited a tradition (from whom? Our government?) or lopsided sharing--even in times when we've amply exported our work around the world, we've been stingy with our invitations and imposed restrictions on our international colleagues.

The producers and artists featured in this ...

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