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Articles in May 2005 issue of American Theatre

• Billy Bigelow.(John Raitt)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
• No explanations.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Stryk, Lydia
• Street scenes.(trends & events)(Brief Article)
• Nancy Keystone mechanics and flight: a Los Angeles-based theatremaker eyes space technology in her four-years-in-the-making Apollo.(profiles)(theater director)(Interview)
  by Wada, Karen
• Centre Stage--South Carolina.(Douglas P. McCoy)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
• Cultures in peril: theatrical adventures in South Africa and Mali, Uganda, Mexico, India, the Philippines and Sri Lanka.(SPECIAL SECTION)
  by Gener, Randy
• Unmasking Mayan Mexico: women's issues and ethnic identities play self-defining roles in the contemporary indigenous theatre of Chiapas.(SPECIAL SECTION: CULTURES IN PERIL)
  by Underiner, Tamara L.
• Real plays have enduring themes.(ROAMING SPOTLIGHT)(Real Women Have Curves)(play)(Theater Review)
  by Johnson, Cassandra
• Vermont contemporary playwrights forum.(CALL BOARD)(Brief Article)
• Kansas City, Mo.: Kansas City jump.(FRONT and CENTER)(Kanzass City jazz in the new play Carter's Way by Eric Simonson)(Theater Review)
  by Sampson, B. Walker
• Cleveland, Ohio: Buffalo gal.(FRONT and CENTER)(Dance: Daughter of a Buffalo Soldier)(Dance Review)
  by Estvanik, Nicole
• Why teens kill: ugly truths about modern adolescence flare up in columbinus.(critic's notebook)(theater)(interpreting Columbine High School shootings)(Theater Review)
  by Wren, Celia
• Le film de ma vie.(trends & events)(Janie Geiser)(Brief Article)
• Flying by Foy.(in memoriam)(Peter Foy)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
• Chekhov: shorter, faster, funnier and uncut; A translator susses out the true Chekhov--with some surprising results.
  by Donaghy, Tom
• Climb every mountain.(ROAMING SPOTLIGHT)(Hannibal of the Alps)(Struggles of Langston Hughes)(Theater Review)
  by Johnson, Cassandra
• New York City: London calling.(FRONT and CENTER)(Play Slag Heap by anton dudley at New York's Cherry Lane Theatre)(Theater Review)
  by Apple, Krista
• Entrances & exits.
• Head trips.(trends & events)(Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats, photography exhibition)(Brief Article)
• A story in 3 acts: reimagining the big life of Peter Brook--including sex and spirituality.(new books)(Interview with writer Michael Kustow)(Interview)
  by Estvanik, Nicole
• Ariane Mnouchkine: a message for World Theatre Day.
• Have I been here before?(trends & events)(New York Theatre Workshop)
  by Gener, Randy
• The artist as cultural diplomat.(from the deputy director)
  by Channick, Joan
• Stage 3 theatre.(CALL BOARD)(Brief Article)
• Editor's note.(Editorial)
  by O; '; Quinn, Jim
• Tribal fever: on the Philippine Island of Mindanao, popular theatre seeks to reclaim the ancestral land and traditional ways of living.(SPECIAL SECTION: CULTURES IN PERIL)(Kaliwat Theatre Collective)(Subanen, "people of the river" artistic endea
  by Lu, Joyce
• Festival watch.(trends & events)(Calendar)
• Arthur Miller: 1915-2005.(in memoriam)(Obituary)
  by Esbjornson, David
• India's special K: an actor-based form of Sanskrit theatre has grabbed headlines in the Indian state of Kerala--and abroad.(SPECIAL SECTION: CULTURES IN PERIL)(Kathakali dance drama)(Kutiyattam theater)
  by Ratnam, Anita
• Palazzo poltergeist.(Souls of Naples )(play)(Theater Review)
  by Estvanik
• 'Brooklyn Bridge'.(COMING IN JULY/AUGUST)(Brief Article)
  by Gibson, Melissa James
• Redwood groupthink.(trends & events)(Public Notice)
• International Summer Festivals: all the world's a stage.(Events calendar)(Epidaurus Festival of Greek Drama)(Directory)
  by Estvanik, Nicole; Johnson, Cassandra
• Peter Jay Fernandez Caesar redux: for this experienced actor, understudying a big star is no burden.(profiles)(understudy to Denzil Washington at the Belasco Theatre, New York)
  by Nesmith, N. Graham
• A night in the woods.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Allen, Judith
• Out of East Africa: the show must go on for Uganda Orphans and Batwa Pygmies, in the wake of cross-border violence, civil wars, disease and devastation.(SPECIAL SECTION: CULTURES IN PERIL)
  by Nottage, Lynn
• The giraffe that conquered Paris: a unique collaboration between puppet companies in South Africa and Mali heads to the U.S.(SPECIAL SECTION: CULTURES IN PERIL)
  by Asch, Leslee
• Nellie McCaslin.(in memoriam)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
• May/June on stage.(Calendar)
• Salmon tales: an Alaskan adventure.(COMING IN JULY/AUGUST)(Brief Article)
  by Gener, Randy
• Los Angeles: the shoe queen.(FRONT and CENTER)(Imelda Marcos, the shoe queen in the musical Imelda (Los Angeles))(Theater Review)
  by Gener, Randy
• Correction.(Correction Notice)
• May/June: theatre almanac.(FRONT and CENTER)(Chronology)
• Welcoming the wrecking ball.(trends & events)(The Tank performance space)(Applause Bookstore )
• Twenty questions.(Howard Shalwitz on new theater space)(Interview)
• How to bargain with a demon: the ritual theatre of Sri Lanka forges order out of chaos.(SPECIAL SECTION: CULTURES IN PERIL)(Critical Essay)
  by Fisher, Ellen
• Another world in progress: a progressive think-tank in Brazil opens the door to artists.(first person)(2005 World Social Forum)
  by Joseph, Melanie
• Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre.(in memoriam)(Ruth Warrick, 88, dies)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
• Internships--NYC.(CALL BOARD)(Brief Article)
• Theatre residency program supports 11 playwrights.(NEWS FROM TCG)(Theatre Communications Group)
• Awards & prizes.