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Articles in December 2003 issue of American Theatre

• Queer eye on the gospels.(Trends & Events)(Brief Article)
• The once and future musical: a director rediscovers an obsession--and its political potential.(First Person)(Column)
  by Smith, Molly
• Harold Prince, the legendary director of Fiddler on the Roof, West Side Story, Company, Sweeney Todd and Phantom of the Opera, talked to American Theatre while in rehearsal for Stephen Sondheim's new musical, Bounce, at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago.(Twe
• The Angels decade: 22 interviews.
• Artists travel to Russia and Eastern Europe.(News from TCG)(Brief Article)
• Changing of the guard.(Michael Ritchie to assume artistic directorship of Center Theater Group in Los Angeles)(Brief Article)
• Shout for joy.(Letters to the Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Robbins, Sonya
• What's Oscar, what's not?(Letters to the Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Cinto, Matt Di
• Playwright Herb Gardner--best known for the oft-produced comedies.(In Memoriam)(Brief Article)
• An anti-annual report.(Report from the Executive Director.)(Editorial)
  by Cameron, Ben
• Jonathan Moscone stumping for art: for Cal Shakes's artistic director, art is a call to action.(Profiles)(Interview)
  by Blackwell, Erin
• A passage to Cairo: do whatever you have to do to get to this theatre festival, a playwright urges.(Postmark: Cairo)(Cairo International Festival of Experimental Theatre)(Column)
  by Ehn, Erik
• A sampler from the world stage.(Global Spotlight)(Calendar)
  by Sampson, Benjamin W.
• One of the Five Lesbian Brothers reveals how the soul copes with the machine.(Deep Tech)(Column)
  by Angelos, Moe
• Less is more.(Letters to the Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Goatley, Cynthia
• Fairy tale come true.(Trends & Events)(Dallas Children's Theater gets new home)(Brief Article)
• Dennis Smith, who founded New York City's Fourth Unity theatre company.(In Memoriam)(Obituary)
• I dream of global genies: the Builders Association rubs the lamps of identity and new technology in search of transcultural souls.(Calendar)
  by Weems, Marianne
• If it looks and walks like a doc.(Trends & Events)(Broadway: The American Musical)(Brief Article)
• Lynne Meadow's next stage: tempering passion with practicality, she steers Manhattan Theatre Club to a Berth on Broadway.(Interview)
  by Gener, Randy
• Comedy with a Muslim accent: Cornerstone angles for laughs in its Kaufman-Hart adaptation.(Blueprints)
  by Hussain, Amir
• December theatre almanac.(Calendar)
• New York City's Symphony Space--an interdisciplinary performing arts institution combining music.(Entrances & Exits)
• Dis me, Kate.(Washington, D.C.)(Royal Shakespeare Company performs The Tamer Tamed)
  by Wren, Celia
• Jazz singers all: Newton Highlands, Mass.(Theater Review)
  by Citron, Nicole
• A mystery heightened.(Letters to the Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Murray, Henry
• Bard banter.(Trends & Events)(Speaking of Shakespeare series)(Brief Article)
• Los Angeles theatre critic Polly Warfield, 89, died from complications.(In Memoriam)(Brief Article)
• Carnival poetics: a pathfinding volume on black theatre plumbs the forces of ritual, masquerade and magic.(New Books)(The Black Theatre: Ritual Performance in the African Diaspora)(Book Review)
  by King, Woodie, Jr.
• Eve Ensler body trouble: women in 40 countries have confessed their obsessions to the Vagina Monologuist.(Profiles)(Interview)
  by Mirrione, Jim
• So many stories to tell: six artists weigh the commonality and diversity of Latino Theatre.(Connections)(Panel Discussion)
  by Godinez, Henry
• The Kennedy Center.(Brief Article)(Calendar)
• Bridget Carpenter took home the Kesselring Prize for playwriting--along with its $10,000 purse--in late November at the National Arts Club in New York City.(Awards & Prizes)
• The cover of a magazine should always cue the reader in to what's inside the issue.(Editor's Note)(Editorial)
  by O'Quinn, Jim
• Saint James.(Philadelphia)(new musical, "Embarrassments" a portrait of Henry James)
  by Whittington, Lewis
• HBO's starry miniseries retains the sweep of Kushner's epic.(Angels Takes Flight as a Film)
  by Gener, Randy
• Nickel and rhymed: Chicago.(Roaming Spotlight)(Brief Article)
  by Citron, Nicole
• Hail to the Chief.(On Stage)(Calendar)
  by Sampson
• Make mine movies.(Letters to the Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Williams, Wesley
• Correction.(Correction Notice)
• On your toes.(Los Angeles and Around the Country)(Sandra Tsing Loh performs in "Sugar Plum Fairy")
  by Coppens, Julie York
• Construction chic.(Trends & Events)(Brief Article)