International Magazine of Theatre, Film & Media

May 2003

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Community Theatre
Working Hard At Playing
'Bus Stop' in Ohio
A Look At
What Makes Theatre
Alive And Well
by
Susan K. Wittstock
Contents
Views/reViews
Scene4 Views/reViews

Nathan Thomas
ON THE VERGE OF TERRA INCOGNITA

Michael Bettencourt
BLACK AND WHITE - a followup

Arthur Meiselman
ACTING REVISITED

Ned Bobkoff
GODS, GENERALS AND
MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION

Andrea Kapsaski
POST-TRAUMATIC THEATRE

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The World Of Technology
and Media with
Joe Beachy
Beachy Bits... and Pieces

Plagued with that techno stare and media overload? Learn how to blink and breathe every month
with Joe Beachy
This Month:
Sharing Our Resources...
The Return of the Community

Bumper Cars
The Steiny Road
to Operadom with
Karren Alenier

Award-winning poet and writer,
Karren LaLonde Alenier recounts a fascinating travelogue pastiche of the work-in-progress opera

Gertrude Stein Invents
A Jump Early On

Contents
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What's happening in theatre and film in cities and regions throughout the world, with reports by people who live and work there

Andrea Kapsaski in London
Claudine Jones in San Francisco
Steve&Lucille Esquerré in New Orleans

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Scene4 Plays&Scripts

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    a work-in-progress that is provocative, distrubing, and pure theatre.

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    Joseph Beachy
    Lia Beachy
    Michael Bettencourt
    Ned Bobkoff
    Lucille Esquerré
    Steve Esquerré
    Claudine Jones
    Andrea Kapsaski
    Arthur Meiselman
    Nathan Thomas
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