Volume 10 No. 4 
Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy The Kennedy Center in Washington
Art and creativity is one of the most significant ways that humanity uses to fight back against, and to lift itself out of, the muck, and dirt, and the grime, and the horror, and the unfairness of political persecution, racist attacks, hatred, intolerance, and downright cruelty.
Everyone has a language of their own – even if ostensibly we are all speaking English. Class-differences, where people were born, where they were raised, what intellectual stimuli they  received or didn’t receive – all of these factors make up the language we speak.
The approach to acting at the Herbert Berghof (HB) Studio has always had a socialist bent, reflecting a lifelong effort by our Viennese founder to contend with the impact of the American free market system on the conduct of art
As we approach the tenth anniversary and the final notes of the 9/11 bagpipes at ground zero fade from our ears, I write of another memorial, thousands of miles and many more years away…another reminder of how, out of tragedy, we may keep alive the memories of those taken from us and the vows we make as we look backÂ
The Choices You Make That Make You
To study acting and become an actress of quality was my innate dream
Festival Iberoamericano de Teatro de Bogota: Advocacy and Stratiegies
I’m an Israeli (born in Israel), and I’m also a Colombian.
In Search of Contemporary Theatre Writing
I still remember how I was attracted to theatre.
ESSAYS
Commedia dell’Arte: The Essential Scenario - Actors Freedom by Stanley Allan Sherman
Piercing Terra Incognita by Lila Beta
Are We Listening to Our Theatrical Conscience? by Victor Perillo
Great Theatre Artists Unafraid by James Mallinson
Where Are The New Playwrights?
A True Theatre
THE OUTCRY, "WHERE ARE OUR NEW PLAYWRIGHTS?", 1 frequently heard in the last five or ten years, seems to have been uttered with particular intensity during the theatre season that is now drawing to .a close. Is it justified?
Creative Thoughts from
Eugenio Barba
I have always considered my actors' improvisations as the ability to conduct a dialogue with themselves, dreaming while awake, an active meditation, a personal path on an inner journey which left behind it a wake of perceptible reactions
Visions & Ideas from Ronald Rand
As I sit waiting to depart on a runway in Tangier, strong winds buffet the darkened aircraft, while unrelenting punishing sheets of rain sweep across its wings and the grassy terrain..
Soul Talk by Joanne RottéImpermanence is everywhere, all the time. This moment is gone. Nothing is fixed. What, if anything, can be permanently solidified or held? Everything, and one’s memory of everything, is evermore eternally changing.
ENCORE: by Laurence Luckinbill
An essay we find so important we have been making it available since we first published it in 2001. A must read.
The Time Has Come to Build a National Theatre Center
In 1963 President John F. Kennedy reminded us with these words:
“I see little of more importance to the future of our country and our civilization than full recognition of the place of our artists. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him…Art is not a form of propaganda, it is a form of truth…Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstones of our judgment.”
