| Dramatics is the Educational Theatre Association’s magazine for theatre students and teachers. Published monthly nine times a year (September through May), the magazine contains practical articles on acting, directing, design, and other facets of theatre; profiles of working professionals that offer insights into theatre careers; new plays; book reviews; news about new productions in New York and other major theatre centers; and a monthly calendar of EdTA events. Two special issues each year offer directories of college theatre programs (December) and summer theatre work and study opportunities (February). In the fall, Dramatics publishes the results of the annual play survey.
Here’s what’s in our current issue:
My Life in the Silents. A new full-length play by Timothy Mason asks, can a girl from Mosquito Lake, Minnesota, find fame and romance in 1920’s Hollywood? The fifth and final play in Mason’s cycle depicting young Americans at critical moments in history. The well-dressed set. How designers and artisans at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park begged, borrowed, and otherwise outfitted a faux Georgia fishing lodge for a hit production of The Foreigner. Text and photos by Don Corathers. Stuffed raccoon Rosco as himself. (Click here for a PDF of this article.) Discovery. Joe Deer and Rocco Dal Vera continue their series on “Acting in Musical Theatre” with tips for making each performance feel like the first time. Texture. A gallon of flexible glue, a gallon of joint compound, some tint, primer, paint, and glaze: Donna Wymore’s recipe for adding interest to scenic surfaces. (Click here for a PDF of this article.) Plus:
A report on the 2009 Humana Festival of New American Plays, by Julie York Coppens (Click here for a PDF of this article); Barbara Cook looks back on The Music Man in an interview with Tony Vellela; Jeffrey Sweet remembers improv pioneer Paul Sills; and Steve Martin steps up to save a cancelled Lapin Agile. And finally, in ‘Books and Video’: Julie York Coppens reviews Arthur Laurents’s new memoir, Mainly on Directing, plus a collection of political plays by women and a dramatization of Thoreau’s last days on Walden Pond. (Click here for a PDF of this article.) Reminder: We don’t publish in the summer months, so this is Dramatics’ last issue of the publication year. (It includes an index to all the articles published in this, our eightieth volume; see link below.) We’ll be back in September, with full coverage of the 2009 International Thespian Festival and more. 2008–2009 Dramatics index
Index of plays published in Dramatics, 1978–present
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