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Articles in October 2005 issue of American Theatre

• Oedipus was here: and still is. But at the Hellenic Festival, the ancient venues are the real draw.(postmark: greece)
  by Estvanik, Nicole
• Heartland hothouse.(Wexner Center for the Arts celebrating its reopening after renovation )(Brief Article)
• We Shaw like him now.(New York Public Library for the Performing Arts displays George Bernard Shaw's works through "Man or Superman: The Art of George Bernard Shaw")(Brief Article)
• Global affairs.(trends & events)
• Boston: going for it, Learily.(FRONT and CENTER)(Interview)
  by Campbell, Karen
• A knight errant on 4th street: Pennsylvania's Touchstone reimagines Don Quixote as street spectacle.(connections)
  by Allen, Kerri
• Hot flash, sisters!(Menopause The Musical by Jeanie Linders to raise fund for cancer charities)(Brief Article)
• Eyes of the beholder: what do the critics see when they look at racially charged theatre?(first person)
  by Brown, Carlyle
• Monkeying with history.(Peter Goodchild's The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial to be played in universities, colleges and performing arts centers )(Brief Article)
• Thinking about writing about thinking about new plays: or, how visual arts audiences got comfortable with radical innovation, while theatre audiences didn't.
  by Jones, Jeffrey
• Twenty questions.(an interview with composer, bookwriter and lyricist Kirsten Childs)(Interview)
• No business like Berlin business.(Irving Berlin's musical contributions exhibited at San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum)(Brief Article)
• There's another think there! The rise and fall ... and rise of Seussical.
  by Ahrens, Lynn
• New face on the national council for American theatre.(Bruce E.H. Johnson)(Brief Article)
• 14 artists named for Career Development Program.(National Endowment for the Arts in collaboration with Theatre Communications Group plans for Career Development Program)
• Free Night of Theater.(trends & events)
• The golden Ruhl: there's a mix of the mythic, the metaphysical and the mundane in the audacious plays of Sarah Ruhl.
  by Wren, Celia
• A date with Theresa Rebeck: an evening with her plays may make you laugh or shudder (or both)--or see the human condition with fresh eyes.
  by Hart, Sarah
• Minor offenses: these days, children are the target of gruesome abuse on stage.
  by Istel, John
• Awards & prizes.(Brief Article)
• Conjurer of worlds: from richly imagined epochs to unsparing satires, Lynn Nottage's roving imagination channels history's discards into drama.
  by Gener, Randy
• Festival watch.(planning for Rhinoceros Festival at Chicago, Edge of the World Theater Festival at Los Angeles and Horton Foote American Playwrights Festival at Texas)
• Taking final bows.(international actors Mark Rylance and Ferruccio Soleri's plays to be part of American theater festivals)(Brief Article)
• Entrances & exits.
• Donald Brooks.(died in August from complications from a heart attack at age 77)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
• Season Preview 2005-06: a comprehensive listing of productions. Dates and directors at TCG theatres nationwide.(Theatre Communications Group)(Calendar)
  by Zappulla, Eve
• I'm free. Are you?(from the executive director)
  by Cameron, Ben
• October: theatre almanac.(FRONT and CENTER)
• Berkeley, Calif.: The Haunting of Harrison's house.(FRONT and CENTER)(Brief Article)
  by Walat, Kathryn
• Cut that edge.(theater plays)
• Rev. Al Carmines.(died in August at age 69)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
• Philadelphia: silk, songs and shadows.(FRONT and CENTER)
  by Whittington, Lew
• Mythic navigators: this fall's crop of play collections and histories reap a harvest of rich explorations, mythic and new.(new books)
  by Renner, Pamela
• Barbara Bel Geddes.(died in August at her home at the age of 82)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
• Editor's note.
  by O; '; Quinn, Jim