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Articles in September 2003 issue of American Theatre

• Playwright/poet/novelist Carl Hancock Rux was the recipient of $50,000 as a winner of the Alpert Award in the Arts.(awards & prizes)(presented by California Institute of the Arts)(Brief Article)
• New York's Dance Theater Workshop.(entrance & exits)(David R. White replaced by Marion K. Dienstag as executive director)(Brief Article)
• The lazy days of summer may have lulled the nation's stages, but behind the scenes, the theatre field's movers and shakers have been moving and shaking--or at least announcing some dramatic transitions.(entrance & exits)(David Hawkanson becomes new ex
• Who's who? Hard to tell at the PQ: a global vocabulary emerges at the world's most prestigious design event.(connections, 10th Prague Quadrennial of stage design and theatre architecture)
  by Aronson, Arnold
• Sojourn Theatre was the big winner in Portland, Ore., pocketing five Drammy Awards in June for its site-specific 7 Great Loves, including best production, ensemble and director (Michael Rohd).(awards & prizes)(Brief Article)
• Classic Stage Company.(entrance & exits)(Brian Kulick named artistic director)(Brief Article)
• Editor's note.(Editorial)
  by O'Quinn, Jim
• Blood ties in the underworld.(Front and Center)(Theater Review)
  by Harrell, Jeremy
• Out.(Theater companies)(Brief Article)
• Legends at home.(trends & events, Ten Chimneys, the recently opened estate of Lunt and Lynn Fontanne)
• Sales pitch.(letters to the editor)
  by Eisbrouch, Rich
• Plays in bloom.(letters to the editor)
  by Press-Coffman, Toni
• At a June ceremony, the Arts and Business Council feted Judith E. Daykin.(awards & prizes)(recognized for excellence in arts management)(Brief Article)
• Murderous feast.(Theater Review)
  by Sampson
• Optimism for peace.(letters to the editor)
  by Kazkaz, Rana
• Rina Yerushalmi: ceremonies of war: an Israeli director finds insights in an ancient epic.(profiles)(Interview)
  by Croyden, Margaret
• Corrections.(Correction Notice)
• Eugene O'Neill Theater Center.(awards & prizes)(Margo Jones Medal awarded to Emilie S. Kilgore, woman playwright)(Brief Article)
• What's in a name?(names of theaters and theater group)
• Time magazine dubbed five theatres--Chicago's Goodman Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Mass., Minneapolis's Guthrie Theater and South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, Calif.--the best regional theatre
• StageSource of Boston elected Lyric Stage Company's Spiro Veloudos as its 2003 Theatre Hero.(awards & prizes)(recognized for commitment and dedication to theater community)(Brief Article)
• A good show?(letters to the editor)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Zeff, Dan
• Love to love you, baby.(Front and Center)(Theater Review)
  by McCracken, Derek S.
• The Georgia Shakespeare Festival.(entrance & exits)(Robert A. Fass appointed managing director)(Brief Article)
• Profiles' 1st wave.(trends & events, Theatre Profiles has returned online )(Brief Article)
• What really happened?(letters to the editor)
  by Schechner, Richard
• Next wave festival.(Brooklyn, United States)
  by Sampson, Benjamin W.
• Also cited for 25 years of service to a theatre community was Scott Stoney.(awards & prizes)($10,000 Lifetime Achievement Fellowship awarded by Montgomery County)(Brief Article)
• A time of reinvention.(from the executive director)(not for profits and arts organizations at peril due to economic and political realities)
  by Cameron, Ben
• Blithe spirits.(Roaming Spotlight)(Alma de Cuba)(Theater Review)
  by Zukerman, Cordelia
• Early-career playwrights Zakiyyah Alexander and Qui Nguyen will spend the next year at New York City's New Dramatists.(awards & prizes)(Brief Article)
• Call for suggestions.(letters to the editor)
  by Wilmeth, Don B.
• Pittsburgh Public Theater.(entrance & exits)(appointments of directors and general manager)(Brief Article)
• John Henry Redwood: 1942-2003.(in memoriam)
  by Perry, Shauneille
• Shape-shifting for a viable future: TCG's National Conference connects theatre to a world in transition.(Theater Communications Group)
  by Hart, Sarah
• A missed opportunity.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Lurie, Steven
• The road less traveled: in a town of Labyrinths and legacies, the New Harmony Project sets a course for Utopia.
  by Wren, Celia
• Wilma Theater.(entrance & exits)(Lynn Landis becomes new managing director of Philadelphia theater)(Brief Article)
• On Kim Stanley.(letters to the editor)
  by Krampner, Jon
• Having their say: American Theatre's contributing writers lend an ear to artists.(In Conversations With Peter Brook, 1970-2000, Sam Mendes at the Donmar Warehouse, A Queer Sort of Materialism: Recontextualizing American Theater, heatre in Crisis? Performa
• On the edge.(Roaming Spotlight, Electricidad)(Theater Review)
  by Zukerman, Cordelia
• Dallas Summer Musicals.(entrance & exits)(Larry Gatlin has joined as artist/composer in residence)(Brief Article)
• September on stage.(theater performances)(Calendar)
• Highway Ulysses.(Playscript ... Rinde Eckert discusses the play)(Play)(Interview)
  by Eckert, Rinde
• Casey Stangl one-two punch: in the hands of a Minneapolis director, new work delivers a wallop.(profiles)
  by Weisman, Wendy
• Barent's puppet theatre festival.(Oulu, Finland)
  by Sampson, Benjamin W.
• How to eat yourself.(commentary)(On the Road to Palestineusix American playwrights encounter the military and metaphorical checkpoints that define Palestinian life)(Related article: Tony Kushner responds)
  by Kushner, Tony
• Yale School of Drama.(entrance & exits)(Thomas Sellar takes Erika Munk's place as editor of Theater Magazine)(Brief Article)
• Chicago playwright Brett Neveu received the Goodman Theatre's Ofner Prize for the development of a new play.(awards & prizes)(Brief Article)
• September theater almanac.(Front and Center)(Openings, performances and news of American theaters from 100 to 10 years ago)
• The Drama League handed out early-career director fellowships in four categories.(awards & prizes)(Brief Article)
• Houston's Infernal Bridegroom Productions.(entrance & exits)(Anthony Barilla replaces Jason Nodler as artistic director)(Brief Article)
• Selective vision.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Shay, Art
• Dreamer from Cuba: for Pulitzer-winner Nilo Cruz, exile is a window into hothouse landscapes of the imagination.
  by Gener, Randy
• A.S.K. shutters.(trends & events, A.S.K. Theater Projects to close)(Brief Article)
• The training pool.(letters to the editor)
  by Sweeney, Katie
• To speak, perchance to dream: the theatre of artful speaking gives birth to a new voice maven.(new books, The Actor Speaks; Speaking Shakespeare)(Book Review)
  by Rodgers, Janet B.
• Phuket and Trang vegetarian festivals.(Phuket and Trang, Thailand)
  by Sampson, Benjamin W.
• In memoriam.(Jack Gelber)(Obituary)
• Perishable Theatre of Providence, R.I., chose three winners for its International Women's Playwriting Festival.(awards & prizes)(Brief Article)
• Chicago's Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee handed out 46 plaudits in June to non-union companies, including six each to Hypocrites, Lifeline Theatre and TimeLine Theatre.(awards & prizes)(Brief Article)
• Laughter Fair/Euro-Scene Leipzeig.(Leipzig, Germany)
  by Sampson, Benjamin W.
• Head games: Wilde's 1892 Salome, in a wave of new productions, is a Rorschach test for artist.(critic's notebook)
  by Grode, Eric
• Joseph Chaikin: 1935-2003.(in memoriam)(Obituary)
  by Van Itallie, Jean-Claude
• Christopher Sink, managing director at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Mass., since 1991, will shoulder equivalent responsibilities for Chicago's About Face Theatre.(entrance & exits)(new managing directors for Virginia Stage Company, North Coast
• Women's Project and Productions.(entrance & exits)(Julia Miles replaced by Marya Cohn as artistic director of New York theater)(Brief Article)
• Songs for Rachel Carson.(Front and Center)(Theater Review)
  by Berson, Misha
• Red, white & bard.(trends & events, tour of Richard III, Othello, Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream )(Brief Article)
• 13 tall women.(trends & events, Women in Theatre)(Brief Article)
• Qualities of acting.(letters to the editor)
  by Simpson, Jeanmarie
• Angels or fools?(letters to the editor)
  by Gentile, John S.
• Twenty questions.(actor Kate Monster)(Interview)