Richard Greenberg Smart Talk
THEATER FEATURE: Richard Greenberg talks about Hurrah and Last and other plays
1999
Richard Nelson -Family Ties
THEATER FEATURE: Richard Nelson talks about his play Goodnight Children Everywhere
Robert Falls Golden Classic
THEATER FEATURE: Robert Falls directs Death of a Salesman with Brian Dennehy
Paula Vogel Hey Hey Paula
THEATER INTERVIEW: Paula Vogel on The Mineola Twins
Foreign Affairs
FILM FEATURE: Writer Hanif Kureishi's controversial home life finds its way into My Son the Fanatic.
Directing Marlene
THEATER FEATURE: Sean Mathias talks about bringing the legend of Dietrich to the Broadway stage.
Tennessee Waltzes On
THEATER FEATURE: Sixteen years after his death, playwright and gay trailblazer Tennessee Williams continues to bask in a nationwide obsession with his work.
Sinan Ȕnel -- Pera Palas
THEATER INTERVIEW: Turkish-American playwright Sinan Ȕnel talks about his breathrough work, Pera Palas
Max Stafford-Clark - Play and Anti-Play
THEATER FEATURE: Max Stafford Clarke directs Caryl Churhill's latest, Blue Heart, at BAM
The Uneasy Dance
THEATER FEATURE: Chay Yew delights in tweaking our ideas about Asian culture and Asian Americans in his new play, Red.
Father and Sons
THEATER FEATURE: Ayub Khan-Din has discovered it’s more exciting to be a playwright than an actor; his first play about life in a British-Pakistani household, East is East, arrives in New York.
Will audiences blanche?
THEATER FEATURE: Director Ivo van Hove's strips naturalism away from Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire.
Peter Shaffer -Rewriting Amadeus
THEATER FEATURE: Playwright Peter Shaffer revisits his 1979 hit play, Amadeus.
Paula Vogel-How I Learned to Drive
THEATER FEATURE: Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, How I Learned to Drive makes its LA debut at the Mark Taper Forum.
1998
The Prime of Dame Diana
THEATER FEATURE: The great British actress Diana Rigg talks about her life and her current role in Racine's Phédre in London.
Stephen Flaherty - Ragtime
THEATER FEATURE - Stephen Flaherty talks about Ragtime
Brian Bedford Life of Brian
THEATER INTERVIEW: Brian Bedford talks about his career
Shekhar Kapur Ardor in the Court
FILM FEATURE: Shekhar Kapur talks about his movie Elizabeth
Ardor in the Court
FILM FEATURE: Indian filmmaker Shekhar Kapur directs Cate Blanchet in Elizabeth I
The Long (and short) of Costume Design
THEATER FEATURE:Tony-winning costume designer WIlliam Ivey Long on stripes, sequins, and going over the top for The Mystery of Irma Vep.
Love, Sydney
TRAVEL FEATURE: Sydney, Australia
Philip Bosco - Bosco Uncensored
THEATER INTERVIEW: Philip Bosco talks about his work in the theater
Water World-Basil Twist Gets Wet
THEATER FEATURE: Puppeteer Basil Twist talks about his new creation: Symphonie Fantastique.
David Hare-The Judas Kiss
THEATER INTERVIEW: Playwright David Hare talks about the Broadway production of his new play about Oscar Wilde, The Judas Kiss.
Richard Greenberg Hurrah at Last
THEATER FEATURE: Greenberg's new play at South Coast Rep
Peter Whelan-The Herbal Bed - New York - April 20 1998
Secrets and Truths
THEATER FEATURE: Terrence Ratigan's The Deep Blue Sea is revived at the Roundabout Theatre Company.
Mark Ravenhill - Staging a Controversy
THEATER FEATURE; Mark Ravenhill talks about controversial his play Shopping and Fucking
Sam Mendes: Weimar Wonderland
THEATER FEATURE: Sam Mendes talks about his revival of Cabaret.
David Williamson - I Have a Feeling We Are Not in Australia Anymore
THEATER FEATURE: Australian playwright talks about his play Emerald City
Presenting The Royal Court Theater - Max Stafford-Clark - The Royal Court Theater-
THEATER FEATURE: Max Stafford Clark talks about the historic theater company
1997
Nicholas Hytner Bewitched
FILM FEATURE: Nicholas Hytner talks about his movie adaptation of The Crucible
Robert O Hara - Insurrection-New Song of the South
THEATER FEATURE: Robert O Hara talks about this new play Insurrection: Holding History
Scott Elliott : Scott Elliott Re-Groups
THEATER FEATURE: Scott Elliott on directing Mike Leigh
Martin Sherman -- Sherman's March
THEATER FEATURE Martin Sherman talks getting Bent to Broadway
Mayer-Brokaw-Martin: What They Really Want to do is Direct
THEATER FEATURE: Michael Mayer, Mark Brokaw and Nicholas Martin- Three of the theater's hottest directors speak out.
Michael Wilson ; Newton's Law
THEATER FEATURE: Michael Wilson on directing Defying Gravity
Roman Polanski - The Vampire's Dance
THEATER REVIEW: Polanski directs The Dance of the Vampire
Rupert Graves: Rebel, rebel
FILM FEATURE: Rupert Graves on Different for Girls and Intimate Relations
Cynthia Nixon--Ballyhooed, if Belatedly
THEATER FEATURE: Cynthia Nixon talks about Last Night of Ballyhoo
The Triumph of Love
THEATER FEATURE: Michael Mayer and James Magruder talk about The Triumph of Love
Worlds of Desire
TRAVEL FEATURE: A report on how sexual tourism has brought the First and Third Worlds together in Bangkok and Sri Lanka. What gets exchanged in these liaisons, besides money?
Paula Vogel in High Gear
THEATER FEATURE: Paula Vogel talks about her current hit play How I Learned to Drive.
Colleen Dewhurst: Definitely Dewhurst
BOOK REVIEW: Colleen Dewhurst's posthumous autobiography
Anne Bogart - SITI Company
THEATER FEATURE: Anne Bogart talks about SITI company's Going, Going, Gone
Peter Hedges: Hedging Bets
THEATER FEATURE: Playwright and screenwriter Peter Hedges dramatizes the perils of parenting in Baby Anger.
Busch League of his own
THEATER FEATURE: Charles Busch eyes a return to gown theater with his new play Queen Amarantha.
Tilda Swinton -Tilda's Perversions
FILM FEATURE: Tilda Swinton talks about the mysteries of "homovestism" and her movie Female Perversion
Dana Ivey - Ivey League
THEATER FEATURE: Dana Ivey talks about her role in Last Night of Bally hoo
Andrew McCarthy-Kinky Sox-
THEATRE FEATURE: Andrew McCarthy talks about Psychopathia Sexualis
Neil Bartlett- Master of History
BOOK FEATURE: Neil Bartlett talks about his novel The House on Brooke Street
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1996
Fiona Shaw - The Waste Land
THEATER FEATURE: Fiona Shaw's solo performance at the Liberty Theater
David Henry Hwang Golden Child
THEATER FEATURE: David Henry Hwang on Golden Child at the Public Theater
Tony Walton Setting the Scene
THEATER FEATURE: Tony Walton directs The Importance of Being Earnest
Julie Taymor -Juan Darien
THEATRE FEATURE: Julie Taymor talks about Juan Darien
Mercutio loves Romeo?
FILM FEATURE: Director Baz Lurhman jazzes up a classic with Romeo and Juliet.
David Hare & Richard Eyre: Through the Skylight
THEATER FEATURE: David Hare and Richard Eyre talk about Skyligh
Secret Agent
FILM FEATURE: British actress Brenda Blethyn wins Best Actress at Cannes for her performance in Secrets and Lies.
Durang it All!
THEATER FEATURE: Playwright Christopher Durang brings his new play Sex and Longing to Broadway.
Chunnel Crossing
TRAVEL FEATURE: Taking the Eurostar from London to Paris
Transformations- Theatre de Complicite
THEATER FEATURE: The British physical theater company Complicite brings The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol to Lincoln Center.
Scott Elliott-Director in Demand
THEATER INTERVIEW: Scott Elliott talks about The New Group
Mart Crowley : Boys will be Boys
THEATER FEATURE- Mart Crowley on Boys in the Band
Andrew Holleran
BOOK FEATURE: Andrew Holleran's new novel, The Beauty of Men
Mart Crowley: Where The Boys Are Now
THEATER INTERVIEW: Mart Crowley talks about this career and The Boys in the Band
Return of the One-Man Band
THEATER FEATURE: Mart Crowley talks about the revival of his landmark play, The Boys in the Band.
Line Up for Marga
THEATER FEATURE: Marga Gomez resurrects her comedian father in Line Around the Block.
Mark Rappaport The Tip of the Seberg
FILM FEATURE: Mark Rappaport on From the Journals of Jean Seberg
Richard Nelson
THEATER FEATURE: Playwright Richard Nelson talks about his play New England.
Shyam Selvadurai - Not a Shyam Boy
BOOKS FEATURE: Shyam Selvadurai talks about his novel Funny Boy
Julie Taymor - Taymor Made - the theater of surprise
THEATER FEATURE: Julie Taymor talks about her production of The Green Bird
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1995
Ron Nyswaner - Oblivion Postponed
THEATER FEATURE: Ron Nyswaner talks about his play Oblivion Postponed
Athol Fugard -No Trouble Athol
THEATRE FEATURE: Fugard talks about his new play Valley Song
Cheek by Jowl Actors - Handy and Hille - The Duchess of Malfi
THEATER FEATURE: Scott Handy and Anastasie Hille talk about working on Cheek By Jowl's The Duchess of Malfi
Declan Donnellan-Bloody Cheek
THEATER FEATURE: Declan Donnelan's production of The Duchess of Malfi
Cheek by Jowl- at BAM
THEATER FEATURE: Cheek by Jowl - The Duchess of Malfi
Richard Eyre - Eyre Apparent
THEATER FEATURE Richard Eyre takes the helm at the National Theatre
Richard Nelson Abroad
THEATER INTERVIEW - Richard Nelson
John Patrick Shanley- Four Dogs and a Bone
THEATER FEATURE: John Patrick Shanley talks about Four Dogs and Bone at the Gerffen Playhouse, Los Angeles
All Aboard the Northeast Local
THEATER FEATURE: Playwright Tom Donaghy talks about his new play Northeast Local.
Bryan Batt-
FILM FEATURE: Bryan Batt in Jeffrey
Mark Wing Davey -Central Park Siege
THEATER FEATURE: Mark Wing Davey talks about this production of Troilus and Cressida in the Park
Dan Butler The Only Thing Worse-Men's Style July-August 1995
The Yolande Chronicles
THEATER FEATURE: Sri Lankan performer Yolande Bavan talks about her unusual life.
Arthur Laurents - Back to the Future
THEATER FEATURE: Arthur Laurents talks about his play The Radical Mystique
Jeremy Sams - A Theatrical Polymath
THEATER FEATURE: Jeremy Sams talks about translating Indiscretions and writing the music for Arcadia
Berlin: Travel story
TRAVEL FEATURE: Berlin
Neil Simon
THEATER FEATURE: Playwright Neil Simon remembers the best days he ever had in his new play Laughter on the 23rd Floor.
Vienna: Vienna Waltz
TRAVEL FEATURE: Vienna
Chay Yew-The Language of Butterflies
THEATER FEATURE: Chay Yew on A Language of Their Own
Prague Travel
TRAVEL FEATURE: Prague
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1994
Paul Rudnick - When Art and Life Collide
THEATER INTERVIEW: Paul Rudnick talks about his new play The Naked Truth
Charles Busch In Trousers
THEATER INTERVIEW: Charles Busch talks about You Should Be So Lucky
Michael Mayer-Angels in America
THEATER FEATURE: Michael Mayer directs Angels in America
Briton Beach Memoirs
FILM FEATURE: Gurinder Chada talks about her new film Bhaji on the Beach.
Tommy- The Amazing Journey
THEATER FEATURE: Des McAnuff's staging of Tommy
Family Theater
THEATER FEATURE: Stephen Daldry, Ian McNeil (with dad Robert McNeil) talk about their partnership and working on An Inspector Calls.
Stonewall Interpreted - Ian McKellen and Tina Landau
THEATER FEATURE: Ian McKellen talks about his coming out and Tina Landau about her new work Stonewall
New York: Bright Lights Big City
TRAVEL FEATURE: Travel Guide - supplement for Gay Games 1994
Derek Jarman- Fade to Blue
FILM INTERVIEW: Derek Jarman talks about his life as it nears the end. The visionary artist and filmmaker died less than two months after giving this interview.
Letter from Louisville
THEATER REVIEW: Humana Theater Festival
Censorship from the Grave
THEATER FEATURE:The Beckett estate kills a London production of Footfalls, starring Fiona Shaw.
Diana Rigg's Medea
THEATER FEATURE: Diana Rigg's range extends from sex kittens to the classics - with a little Sondheim on the side.
Roman Polanski - He Who Laughs
FILM FEATURE: Polanski talks about Bitter Moon
Gay London Travel Feature
TRAVEL FEATURE - Gay London
The Designer as Co-Director
THEATER INTERVIEW: How designer Bob Crowley shaped this revival of Carousel.
The Peasant Kings of British Theater
THEATER FEATURE: Director Declan Donnellan and designer Nick Omerod apply classical techniques to contemporary hits-- Sweeney Todd and Angels in America -- at the National Theater in London.
Keith Curran - Sexual Identity Crisis
THEATER FEATURE: Keith Curran talks about his new play The Stand In
1993
Tony Kushner
THEATER INTERVIEW: Tony Kushner talks about Perestroika the second part of Angels in America and beyond.
Fiona Shaw Q & A
THEATER INTERVIEW Fiona Shaw on Machinal
Anthony Sher Q & A
THEATER INTERVIEW Anthony Sher
Tony Kushner -The Chop and Change of Daily Life
THEATER FEATURE: Tony Kushner on preparing Perestroika (Angels in America Part Two)
Paul Rudnick- Jeffrey
THEATER FEATURE- Paul Rudick talks about Jeffrey
The Mad World of Alan Bennett
THEATER INTERVIEW: The author of The Madness of King George on the crazy King, the reigning Queen, and the bag lady at the bottom of his garden.
Paul Rudnick - All About Paul
THEATER FEATURE: Paul Rudnick talks about Jeffrey
From the Film Schools- Lights Camera Activist
FILM FEATURE: Focus on out gay students in the film schools
Juliet Stevenson - Walking the Beasts
THEATER INTERVIEW: Juliet Stevenson talks about Scenes from an Execution
Athol Fugard: Karma of Violence
THEATER FEATURE: Athol Fugard talks about his new work, Playland.
Sally Potter - Potter's Wheel of Fortune
FILM FEATURE: Sally Potter talks about Orlando
David Drake - Swing Out Sister
THEATER FEATURE:The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me: A One-Queer Show puts David Drake on the A-List.
David Williamson Explored
THEATER FEATURE David Williamson talks about his play Money and Friends
The Importance of Being Bette
THEATER FEATURE: Bette Bourne talks about the Bloolips Roman epic Get Hur.
Natasha Takes Manhattan
THEATER FEATURE: Natasha Richardson becomes the talk of the town with Anna Christie on Broadway.
Prime Mirren
TELEVISION FEATURE: Helen Mirren talks about her career and Prime Suspect II
Chita Rivera-The Kiss of Chita
THEATER FEATURE: Chita Rivera talks about starring in Kiss of the Spider Woman in the West End.
1992
A.R. Gurney - The Old Boy
THEATER FEATURE: A.R. Gurney talks about The Old Boy at San Diego's Old Globe
Stephen Gyllenhaal
FILM FEATURE: Stephen Gyllenhaal's Waterland
Return to Mad Forest
THEATER FEATURE: Director Mark Wing-Davey mixes docudrama and fantasy in Caryl Churchill's dazzling play about the Romanian Revolution, Mad Forest.
Simon Gray-Interview
THEATER INTERVIEW-Simon Gray talks about writing and re-rewriting The Holy Terror
Hanif Kureishi - Showing the downside of Thatcherism
FILM FEATURE: Hanif Kureishi talks about his movie London Kills Me
Athol Fugard: Breaking Bad Karma in South Africa
THEATER FEATURE: South African playwright Athol Fugard about his new work, Playland, at the La Jolla Playhouse.
Kevin Bacon - From Footloose to Spike Heels
THEATER FEATURE: Kevin Bacon stars in Theresa Rebeck's Spike Heels.
Split Britches
THEATER INTERVIEW: Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw talk about Lesbians That Kill
Richard Eyre - Profile
THEATER FEATURE - Richard Eyre talks about running the National Theatre
Ian McKellen plays Richard III
THEATER FEATURE: Hiding the hump leads to a new interpretation of the deformed villain.
A Different Dance- David Leavitt
TV FEATURE: David Leavitt and Sean Matthias on making the movie of The Lost Language of Cranes
Letter from London - TheaterWeek May 21 1992
THEATER REVIEWS: London Theater
Lynne Meadow interview
THEATER FEATURE: Artistic Director Lynne Meadow speaks about running the Manhattan Theater Club
Derek Jarman's Edward II-
FILM FEATURE: Derek Jarman's movie of Marlowe's Edward II
Derek Jarman - Edward II Lives!
FILM FEATURE Derek Jarman's film adaptation of Marlowe's Edward II
What Becomes a Legend? Tilda Swinton
FILM FEATURE: Tilda Swinton talks about Edward II
Ariel Dorfman - From Exile to Broadway
THEATER FEATURE: PLaywright Ariel Dorfman talks about Death and the Maiden
Simon Jones
THEATER INTERVIEW Simon Jones
Eric Overmyer-Making Words Music
THEATER INTERVIEW: Q&A with Eric Overmyer about The Heliotrope Bouquet by Scott Joplin and Louis Chauvin
Cherry Jones- Paula Vogel - The Baltimore Waltz
THEATER FEATURE-Cherry Jones and playwright Paula Vogel talk about The Baltimore Waltz
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1991
Brad Davis-Obituary
THEATER FEATURE- Brad Davis
The Lion in Winter
THEATER FEATURE: Richard Harris gets serious with Pirandello's Henry IV in London and the movie, The Field.
B D Wong -
FILM FEATURE: Actor B D Wong talks about his role in Father of the Bride
Brad Fraser- Unidentified Human Remains
THEATER FEATURE:Canadian playwright Brad Fraser talks about his play Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love
Split Britches - High Priesteses of Lesbian Theater
THEATER FEATURE: The two high priestesses of lesbian theater Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw
Fiona Shaw and Deborah Warner Electrify the classics
THEATER FEATURE: Fiona Shaw and Deborah Warner talk about the collaboration on Hedda Gabler
Joan Plowright - Famous English Actress Seeks Adventure
FILM FEATURE: Joan Plowright talks about her film career
Simon Callow Tha Ballad of the Sad Cafe
FILM FEATURE Simon Callow on the set of The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
Max Stafford Clark - Time Travelers
THEATER FEATURE Max Stafford Clark talks about his production of Our Country's Good
He Who Laughs-Roman Polanski
FILM FEATURE: The famed Polish director talks about his new film Bitter Harvest
Pinter in London
THEATER FEATURE: Peter Hall's revival of Harold Pinter's The Homecoming
Irene Worth in Lost in Yonkers
THEATER FEATURE: The distinguished British actress talks about her career and playing the grandmother in Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers.
Jennie Livingston - Drag Balls and Cocky Counterfeiters
FILM FEATURE: Jennie Livingston on Paris is Burning
Bill Alexander - Not Just Another Romeo
THEATER FEATURE- Bill Alexander's production of Romeo and Juliet at New Victory Theater
Peter Brook's The Tempest
THEATER FEATURE: Director Peter Brook talks about his production of The Tempest in Paris and claims he is quitting the classics.
1990
Mark Lamos-Conquers the Classics
THEATER FEATURE: Mark Lamos talks about his tenure at Hartford Stage Company
Jerry Sterner Other People's Money
THEATER FEATURE Jerry Sterner's Other People's Money goes to London
David Stevens Doin' What Comes Naturally
THEATER FEATURE: David Stevens on his play The Sum of Us
Tony Kushner- A Political Animal
THEATER FEATURE: Tony Kushner talks about his new play Angels in America
Tracey Ullman-Taming of the Shrew-
THEATER FEATURE: Tracey Ullman in Taming of the Shrew in Central Park
Eileen Atkins - Britain's Best Kept Secret
THEATER FEATURE: Eileen Atkins comes to New York with Prin.
Theater Takes To the Streets
THEATER FEATURE: Director Reza Abdoh's site specific production, Father Was a Peculiar Man.
Alec McCowen - Smart Alec
THEATER INTERVIEW Alec McCowen talks about coming out as a gay man
Jerry Zaks-Behind the Scenes at Six Degrees
THEATER FEATURE: Jerry Zaks talks about his production of Six Degrees of Separation
Choreography That Kills -- B.H. Barry
THEATER FEATURE: Fights, Rapes and Pratfalls: B.H. Barry makes an art form out of onstage violence.
Helen Mirren: The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
FILM INTERVIEW: Helen Mirren talks about her role in the new Peter Greenaway movie
Mary Louise Parker- Prelude to a star
THEATER FEATURE: Mary Louise Parker stars in Prelude to a Kiss
Two British Directors - Tim Luscombe and Roger Michell
THEATER FEATURE: Tim Luscome talks about directing When She Danced and Roger Michel about Some Americans Abroad
Arthur Miller at 75-
THEATER FEATURE: Arthur Miller is celebrated in London
Richard Thomas- Mothers and Other Strangers - McNally's Andre's Mother
TV FEATURE: Richard Thomas talks about Terence McNally's Andre's Mother
New York Theater Workshop
THEATER FEATURE: New York Theater Workshop
