BONNIE MARRANCA
2 CHARLTON STREET, APT. 11J
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10014
TEL: (212) 675-6730
E-Mail: pajpub@aol.com
EDUCATION
Graduate Center of The City University of New York, 1973-76. Ph.D.
Program in Theatre. Course work, language requirements, and oral
exams completed. Withdrew to found Performing Arts Journal
and begin professional career in arts publishing.
Hunter College, N. Y. 1972-73. M.A. in Theatre, 1976.
Montclair State College, N. J. 1965-69. B.A. in English (Latin minor),
1969.
University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Spring semester 1969.
BOOKS
Conversations on Art and Performance. Ed., with Introductory
Notes. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
Theatre of the Ridiculous: Jack Smith, Kenneth Bernard, Charles
Ludlam, Ronald Tavel. Ed., with an Introduction. Revised and
Expanded Edition. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press,
1997. N.Y.: PAJ Publications, 1979.
Ecologies of Theatre. Baltimore, MD.: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1996.
Plays for the End of the Century. Ed., with an Introduction.
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
The Theatre of Images: Robert Wilson, Richard Foreman, Lee Breuer.
Ed., with Introductory Essays, and an Afterword. Baltimore, MD.:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Reprint of N.Y.: Drama Book
Specialists, 1977 edition.
Interculturalism and Performance: Writings From PAJ. Ed. (with
Gautam Dasgupta), with an Introduction. N.Y.: PAJ Publications, 1991.
Hudson Valley Lives. Ed. and introduced, with extensive biographical
and historical notes. N.Y.: Overlook Press (distrib. Viking/Penguin),
1991. Published in paperback as Hudson Valley Reader, 1995.
American Garden Writing. Ed., with Preface and extensive biographical
and historical notes. N.Y.: PAJ Publications, 1988. N.Y.: Viking/Penguin
(paperback), 1989.
Theatrewritings. N.Y.: PAJ Publications, 1984. Recipient of
the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, 1983-84.
American Dreams: The Imagination of Sam Shepard. Ed., with an
Introduction. N.Y.: PAJ Publications, 1981. Frankfurt, West Germany:
Fischer Verlag, 1987. Voted "one of the best academic books of 1981"
by CHOICE.
American Playwrights: A Critical Survey, Vol. I (with Gautam
Dasgupta). N.Y.: Drama Book Specialists, 1981.
Animations: A Trilogy for Mabou Mines by Lee Breuer. Ed., with
an Introduction. N.Y.: PAJ Publications, 1979.
PUBLISHING/EDITORIAL POSITIONS
Co-editor, "PAJ Books" theatre series published by Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1991- .
Co-founder, Publisher/Editor: PAJ Publications, 1979-. Publishing house
producing theatre books and an arts periodical. One hundred and
twenty volumes of essays and performance texts published to date,
including more than 900 plays, sketches, monologues by world authors,
translated from over twenty languages.
Co-founder, Publisher/Editor: Performing Arts Journal, 1976-.
Triannual international journal on the arts, covering theatre, drama,
dance, opera, video, performance art, installations, photography.
Published for PAJ by special arrangement with The MIT Press as of
January 2002.
Executive Editor: LIVE magazine. A magazine of new performance,
music, art, video published by PAJ Publications, 1979-82. Now defunct.
Theatre Critic: Soho Weekly News (New York), 1975-77.
Theatre Critic: Changes (New York), 1973-75.
New York Correspondent: Theatre Quarterly (England), 1977-78.
New York Correspondent: Theatre (Japan), 1976-77.
(The more than 75 reviews/articles in these newspapers/journals/magazines
are not listed below.)
ACADEMIC POSITIONS - UNITED STATES
Maine College of Art, Portland. Visiting Artist. Summer Intensive,
August 2000.
University of Texas-Dallas. Professor of Art and Performance, Tenured,
1995 - 2001. Fall semesters. School of Arts and Humanities. Graduate
seminars: "American Avant-Garde Arts." "The Spiritual Dimension of Modernism."
"Avant-Garde Arts Between the Wars." " Undergraduate: "Contemporary
American Drama." "Theatre and Revolution: The Drama of Central
and Eastern Europe from the Soviet Era to the New Europe." Workshop:
Writing about the Arts." Resigned tenured position, July 2001.
University of Iowa. Visiting Professor. Dept of English (Fall Semester,
1994). Graduate Seminar: "European Avant-Garde Performance: Texts
and Manifestoes."
University of Iowa. Visiting Professor, Dept. of Theatre Arts (Spring
Semester, 1994). Graduate Seminar: "Bodies of Work: American Avant-Garde
Performance"; Undergraduate Upper Division: "The Drama of Central
and Eastern Europe."
Duke University. Visiting Professor, Drama Program (Fall, 1993). Undergraduate:
"European Drama and the Modernist Heritage"; "Writing Workshop in
Theatre Criticism."
New York University: Adjunct Associate Professor, Dept. of English-- Undergraduate
(Fall, 1992). "Writing Non-Fiction: Performance."
University of California--San Diego: Visiting Professor, Dept. of Theatre
(Winter Quarter, 1992). MFA Graduate Seminar: "The Modernist Text";
Undergraduate Upper Division: "The Drama of Central and Eastern
Europe."
New York University: Adjunct Associate Professor, Dept. of English-- Undergraduate
(Fall and Spring Semesters, 1990-91). "Writing Non-
University of California--San Diego: Visiting Professor (Winter Quarter,
1987). MFA Graduate Seminar: "Dramaturgy--Performance Worlds"; Undergraduate
Upper Division: "20th Century Experiments in Modernism."
Columbia University: Adjunct Associate Professor, Division of Theatre
Studies (Fall Semester, 1986). MFA Graduate Program: "Performance
Worlds."
Columbia University: Adjunct Associate Professor, Division of Theatre
Studies (Fall Semester, 1985). MFA Graduate Program: "20th Century
Experiments in Dramatic Form."
University of California--San Diego: Visiting Professor (Winter Quarter,
1985).
MFA Graduate Seminar: "Dramaturgy"; Undergraduate Upper Division:
"20th Century Experiments in Dramatic Form."
Richmond College (CUNY): Adjunct Lecturer, Dept. of Theatre (Summer,
1976). "Drama and Society."
Lehman College (CUNY): Lecturer, School of Continuing Studies (Summer,
1974). "Contemporary Theatre."
ACADEMIC POSITIONS - TEACHING AND SEMINARS IN EUROPE
Freie Universität Berlin. Fulbright Fellowship seminars, Graduate:
"Performance Ideas" and Undergraduate: "Contemporary American Drama."
Institute fur Theaterwissenschaft, 1998-99.
Freie Universität Berlin. Visiting Professor, Institut für Theaterwissenschaft
(May-June, 1998). Graduate Seminar: "The Vernacular Marvelous: Gertrude
Stein, John Cage, Robert Wilson."
Dartington College of the Arts,Devon, England), Dept. of Theatre, Week-long
seminar, including lectures on contemporary American performance; discussion
of work as publisher and editor (PAJ); discussion on education and the
arts.June 2-6, 1997.
University of Aarhus, Aarhus (Denmark). Visiting Professor, Institute
for Dramaturgy (September-October, 1994). "Contemporary American Performance."
Johannes Gutenberg Universitat, Mainz (Germany). Visiting Professor,
Institut für Theaterwissenschaft (June-July, 1993). Doctoral Seminar:
"American Avant-Garde Performance."
AWARDS, GRANTS, AND SPECIAL HONORS
Anschutz Distinguished Fellowship in American Studies Spring 2001,
Princeton University.
Fulbright Award as Senior Scholar, Freie Universität, Berlin,
1998-99 academic year. Graduate and undergraduate seminars in American
.
Bellagio Study and Conference Center (Italy), The Rockefeller Foundation,
Residency, August-September, 1994. Work on Ecologies of Theater
ms. Book published in 1996 (Johns Hopkins University Press)
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowships Program, Nominator,
1992-93.
Asian Cultural Council. Grant for Research and Travel to India, 1991.
Le Compte du Nouy Foundation Award for Achievement in Theatre, 1991.
Stanislaw I. Witkiewicz Award 1990, for support of Polish theatre culture
abroad. Presented in Warsaw by the Polish Center of the International
Theatre Institute, May 1990.
Hudson River Foundation, 1990 Research Grant for Hudson Valley Lives.
Greene County Council on the Arts (Catskill, N.Y.), 1990 Grant for
Hudson Valley Lives.
Notable Women in the American Theatre: A Biographical Dictionary,
Greenwood Press, 1989. Biographical entry.
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1985, for a study of the theatricalization of
American culture.
The George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism 1983-84, presented
April 1985 for Theatrewritings.
OBIE Award to Performing Arts Journal Publications for "Outstanding
Achievement in the Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway Theatre," 1983.
Contemporary Criticism, 1977. Vols. 65-68, Gale Research Company,
1977.
Le Compte du Nouy Foundation Award for Achievement in Theatre, 1980.
National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts/Art Critic Fellowship Grantfor
travel and research in the field of performance art, 1980.
Who's Who of Intellectuals, 1980...
Who's Who of American Women, 1977 ... 22nd edition (2000-2001)
University Fellowship, Graduate Center of The City University of New
York, 1973-74.
State Scholarship, Montclair State College, 1965-69.
Who's Who of American Colleges and Universities, Montclair State (NJ),
1969.
PUBLICATIONS [ESSAYS, REVIEWS, INTERVIEWS]
"The Solace of Chocolate Squares: Wallace Shawn in Mourning." PAJ:
A Journal
of Performance and Art, Vol. XXII, No. 3 (PAJ 66), September,
2000, 38-46.
"Berlin Conversations." Berlin 2000 issue of PAJ: A Journal of Performance
and Art , Vol. XXII, No. 2 (PAJ 65), May 2000, 50-98.
"Bodies of Action, Bodies of Thought." PAJ: A Journal of Performance
and Art, Vol. XXI, No. 1 (PAJ 61), January 1999, 11-23.
"Performance History." Review of Happenings and Other Acts,
ed. Mariellen R. Sandford. Performing Arts Journal, Vol.XIX,
No.2 (PAJ 56) May, 1997, 115-120.
"Ecologia del teatro" (Preface to Ecologies of Theater). Prima
fila (Italy), No. 23, September, 1996, 25-27.
"Hymns of Repetition." Review of Robert Wilson's production of Thomson/Stein
opera Four Saints in Three Acts, Lincoln Center Festival. Performing
Arts Journal, Vol. XVIII, No.1 (PAJ 54) Fall, 1996, 42-47.
"Teatr Ontologiczno-Histeryczny Richarda Foremana" ("The Ontological- Hysteric
Theatre of Richard Foreman"). Dialog 8 (Poland), Summer 1996,
61-70.
"Theatre and the University at the End of the Twentieth Century." Performing
Arts Journal, Vol. XVII, No. 1, Fall, 1995, 55-71.
"Presence of Mind." Performing Arts Journal, Vol. XVI, No. 3,
Fall, 1994, 1-17.
"The Virtual Theatre of Herbert Blau." Kenyon Review, Vol. XVI,
No. 3, Summer, 1994, 155-161.
"St. Gertrude." Performing Arts Journal, Vol. XVI, No. 1 (PAJ
46, 1994), 107-112.
"Consideratii asupra interculturalismului" ("Thinking About Interculturalism.").
Theatruliu National Bucuresti (Romania), No. 1, 1993.
"A Cosmography of Herself: The Autobiology of Rachel Rosenthal." Kenyon
Review, Vol. XV, No. 2, Spring, 1993.
"Robert Wilson and The Idea of the Archive: Dramaturgy as an Ecology."
Performing Arts Journal, Vol. XV, No. 1 (PAJ 43, 1993),
66-78.
"The Play of Thought." Interview with Herbert Blau. Performing Arts
Journal, Vol. XIV, No. 3 (PAJ 42, 1992), 1-31.
"Meredith Monk's Atlas of Sound: New Opera and the American Performance
Tradition." Performing Arts Journal, Vol. XIV, No. 1 (PAJ
40, 1992), 16-29.
"The Aging Playwright and the American Theater." Village Voice,
June 16, 1992, 94.
"The State of Grace: Maria Irene Fornes at 62." Performing Arts
Journal, Vol. XIV, No. 2 (PAJ 41, 1992), 24-31.
"Thinking About Interculturalism," in Interculturalism and Performance,
eds. Bonnie Marranca and Gautam Dasgupta. New York: PAJ Publications,
1991.
Dialogue. "The Politics of Representation: New York Theatre 1990-91."
Performing Arts Journal, Vol. XIII, No. 3 (PAJ 39,
1991), 1-24. Also published in Poland as "Przewrot Bez Konca." Dialog,
Vol. XXXVII, Nos. 1- 2 (Spring, 1992), 144-152.
Moderator. Dialogue: "Criticism, Culture, and Performance: An Interview
with Edward Said." Performing Arts Journal, Vol. XIII, No. 1
(PAJ 37, 1991), 21-42.
"The Century Turning: International Events." Performing Arts Journal,
Vol. XII, Nos. 2 and 3 (PAJ 35/36, 1990), 66-74.
"Les metaphores theatrale danse discours militaire" in "Les Arts"
issue of Cahiers de Grif (Paris), Autumn, 1989, Nos. 41/42,115-19.
"The Forest As Archive: Wilson and Interculturalism." Performing
Arts Journal, Vol. XI, No. 3/Vol. XII, No. 1 (PAJ 33/34, 1989),
36-44. First version published as "Robert Wilson's Forest of Symbols"
in ArtInternational 7 (Paris), Summer 1989. Also published
in Interculturalism and Performance. New York: PAJ Publications,
1991.
"The Culture of Perestroika" (with Gautam Dasgupta). Also "Interview
With Nina Agisheva: Pravda Theatre Critic." Performing
Arts Journal, Vol. XI, No. 3/Vol. XII, No. 1 (PAJ 33/34,
1989), 205-218. Also published in Theater Heute (Berlin),
May 1989.
"Despoiled Shores: Heiner Muller's Natural History Lessons." Performing
Arts Journal, Vol. XI, No. 2 (PAJ 32, 1988), 17-24.
"Performance World, Performance Culture." Performing Arts Journal,
Vol. X, No. 3(PAJ 30, 1987), 21-29.
"Art and the Imagery of Extinction." Interview with Robert Jay Lifton,
in his The Future of Immortality. New York: Basic
Books, 1987.
"Triptych: Isak Dinesen in Three Parts." Performing Arts Journal,
Vol. X, No. 2 (PAJ 29, 1986), 91-106.
Dialogue. "The Controversial 1985-86 Season." Performing Arts Journal,
Vol. X, No. 1(PAJ 28, 1986), 7-33.
Chapter-long interview of Teatro Americano Contemporaneo, Maddalena
Raimondi-Capasso (Milan: Editrice Nuori Autori, 1986), 63-80.
"PAJ, A History." Performing Arts Journal, Vol. IX, Nos. 2/3
(PAJ 26/27, 1985), 23-42.
"Sam Shepard: Poeta Rocka." Dialog 8 (Warsaw, Poland, 1985),
63-74.
"Acts of Criticism." Speech delivered on the occasion of receipt of
the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, April 15, 1985.
Published in Village Voice, May 14, 1985, and Performing
Arts Journal, Vol. IX, No. 1 (PAJ 25, 1985), 9-11. Also published
in Before His Eyes: Essays in Honor of Stanley Kauffmann,
ed. Bert Cardullo. Md.: University Press of America, 1986.
Interview with Alessandro Fersen: "Theatre and Anthropology." Performing
Arts Journal, Vol. VIII, No. 3 (PAJ 24, 1984), 19-27.
"The Real Life of Maria Irene Fornes." Performing Arts Journal,
Vol. VIII, No. 1 (PAJ 22, 1984), 29-34.
"Pirandello—A Work in Progress." Performing Arts Journal,
Vol. VII, No. 2 (PAJ 20, 1983), 7-28.
Moderator. Dialogue: "The American Playwright--Insider or Outsider:
Martin Epstein, Jeffrey Jones, Des McAnuff, John Wellman." Performing
Arts Journal, Vol. VII, No. 2 (PAJ 20, 1983), 36-47.
Interview with Robert Jay Lifton: "Art and the Imagery of Extinction."
Performing Arts Journal, Vol. VI, No. 3 (PAJ 18, 1982), 51-66.
Interviews with Philippa Wehle, Ritsaert Ten Cate, Attanasio De Felice:
"American Theatre Abroad--The European View." Performing Arts
Journal, Vol. VI, No. 3 (PAJ 18, 1982), 23-45.
"Nuclear Theatre." Performing Arts Journal, Vol. VI, No. 3 (PAJ
18, 1982), 46-50. Also published inVillage Voice, June 29,
1982, and in Swedish as "Karvapenteater," Entre, No. 4 (Sweden,
1982), 8-9.
"Soho's Bourgeois Gentilhomme: Douglas Davis." LIVE 6/7 (1982),
22-25.
"Our Town, Our Country." LIVE 6/7 (1982), 43-46. Also published
in Mickery Theatre Program Supplement, Amsterdam (May, 1982).
"The Politics of Performance"/"Notes on a Poetics of Performance."
Performing Arts Journal, Vol. VI, No. 1 (PAJ 16, 1981),
54-67.
"Light in the Piazza: Santarcangelo, Italy." Performing Arts Journal,
Vol. VI, No. 1(PAJ 16, 1981), 136-39.
"Alphabetical Shepard: The Play of Words." Performing Arts Journal,
Vol. V,
Also published as American Dreams: The Imagination of
Sam Shepard. N.Y.: PAJ Publications, 1981.
"Meredith Monk's Recent Ruins: The Archaeology of Consciousness." Performing
Arts Journal, Vol. IV, No. 3 (PAJ 12, 1980), 39-49. Also
published in Japanese; Shingeki 5 (Japan, 1981), 64-73.
"Maria Irene Fornes: Evelyn Brown." LIVE 4 (1980), 42.
"Beverly Brown/Ruth Maleczech: Vanishing Pictures. LIVE
3 (1980), 42-43.
"Spalding Gray: India and After (America); Sex & Death to the
Age 14; Booze, Cars & College Girls." Performance
Art 2 (1979), 46.
"Eleanor Antin: Before the Revolution." Performance Art
1 (1979), 41-42.
"JoAnne Akalaitis: Southern Exposure." Performance Art
1 (1979), 41-42.
Moderator. Dialogue: "Art in the Culture: John Cage, Richard Foreman,
Richard Kostelanetz." Performing Arts Journal, Vol. IV, No.
1 (PAJ 10/11, 1979), 70-84.
"The American Playwright: A Life in the Theatre?" (With Gautam Dasgupta
and Michael Earley.) Performing Arts Journal, Vol. IV, Nos.
1/2 (PAJ 10/11, 1979), 30-51. Also published in Poland as "Zle z
Dramatem w USA." Dialog 4 (Poland, 1980), 105-115.
"The Self as Text: Uses of Autobiography in the Contemporary Theatre
(Mabou Mines)."
Performing Arts Journal, Vol. IV, Nos. 1/2 (PAJ 10/11, 1979),
85-105. Also published in Italian as "L'uso dell 'autobiographia a teatro."
Achab 7 (Scena, Italy, 1980), 194-206.
"Special Report: Berlin Theatertreffen 1978.) (With Gautam Dasgupta.)
Performing Arts Journal, Vol. III, No. 3 (Winter,
1979), 108-16.
Contributor to "American Dramaturgs," Theater, Vol. 10, No.
1 (Fall, 1978), 15- 30.
"The Plays of Ronald Tavel." Performing Arts Journal, Vol. III,
No. 1 (Spring/Summer, 1978), 55-68.
Moderator. Dialogue: "Theatre in America: Harold Clurman and Stanley
Kauffmann."Performing Arts Journal, Vol. III, No. 1 (Spring/Summer,
1978), 19-34.
Interview with Maria Irene Fornes. Performing Arts Journal,
Vol. II, No. 3 (Winter, 1977), 106-111.
Interview with Susan Sontag: "On Art and Consciousness." Performing
Arts Journal, Vol. II, No. 2 (Fall, 1977), 25-32.
Moderator. Dialogue with Stephen Benedict and Hugh Southern: "Funding
and the Arts."Performing Arts Journal, Vol. I, No. 3 (Winter,
1977), 85-96.
Review of Singularities: Essays on the Theater, 1964-1974 by
John Simon. Educational Theatre Journal, Vol. 28, No. 3 (October,
1976), 437-438.
"Theatre-Boxing and Prize In-Fighting." Confrontation, No. 13
(Fall 1976/Winter 1977), 146-50.
"David Rabe's Viet Nam Trilogy." Canadian Theatre Review, No.
14 (Spring, 1977), 86-92.
"Robert Wilson, the Avant-Garde and the Audience." Yale/Theatre,
Vol. 8, Nos. 2/3 (Spring, 1977), 142-46.
"The Sprechstucke: Peter Handke's Universe of Words." Performing
Arts Journal, Vol. I, No. 2 (Fall, 1976), 32-41.
"Peter Handke's My Foot My Tutor: Aspects of Modernism." Michigan
Quarterly Review, Vol. XVI, No. 3 (Summer, 1977), 272-79.
Interview with Jerry Rojo: "Environmental Theatre." Performing Arts
Journal, Vol. I, No. 1 (Spring, 1976), 20-28.
Moderator. Dialogue with Richard Peaslee and Stanley Silverman: "Music
and Theatre." Performing Arts Journal, Vol. I, No. 1 (Spring,
1976), 40-50.
"The Red Horse Animation." Soho Weekly News, May 5, 1976.
"All the Football Field's a Stage." Soho Weekly News, Feb. 5,
1976.
"Transformations as Dramatic Technique in the Recent Plays of Rochelle
Owens." Margins (9/10/11, 1975), 127-32.
"In Celebration of Lillian Hellman." Soho Weekly News, Nov.
13, 1975.
"Richard Peaslee: Musicmaker for The Fable." Soho Weekly
News, Oct. 9, 1975.
"An Interview with Richard Foreman." Drama and Theatre, Vol.
12, No. 2 (Spring, 1975), 106-10.
"The Radical Impulse in the American Theatre." Review of The Political
Stage by Malcolm Goldstein, and Stage Left by Jay Williams.
Arts in Society, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Summer-Fall, 1975), 268-73.
"The Arts and the American Life." Review of The Rise of the Arts
on the American Campus by Jack Morrison, and Regional Theatre:
The Revolutionary Stage by Joseph Zeigler. The Nation,
March 15, 1975, pp. 312-13.
Review of The Making of Modern Drama by Richard Gilman. Drama
and Theatre. Vol. 12, No. 2 (Spring, 1975), 191-92.
Review of Mother Goddam by Whitney Stine. Foxylady, Feb.
1975, p. 14.
Review of The Mask of State: Watergate Portraits by Mary McCarthy.
Foxylady, Jan. 1975, p. 11.
Review of Elephant Steps by Richard Foreman and Stanley Silverman.
Crawdaddy, Mar. 1975.
"Janis Ian: Society's Woman."Viva, July, 1975, pp. 32-33.
Review of Dory Previn by Dory Previn. Rock, March, 1975.
Review of The Magic Show. Modern Hi-Fi and Music, Mar./Apr.,
1975.
Review of Butterfly by Barbra Streisand. Crawdaddy, Feb.,
1975.
Review of Candide. Modern Hi-Fi and Music, Jan., 1975.
Review of A Tapestry of Dreams by Charles Aznavour. Modern
Hi-Fi and Music, Jan., 1975.
Review of Some Nice Things I Missed by Frank Sinatra. Modern
Hi-Fi and Music, Dec., 1974, p. 18.
Review of More Scott Joplin Rags by Gunther Schuller, and Elite
Syncopations (Joplin collection). Modern Hi-Fi and Music,
Nov., 1974.
"Morgana King." Modern Hi-Fi and Music, Nov., 1974.
Review of Cleo Laine Live! At Carnegie Hall by Cleo Laine. Rolling
Stone, Aug. 1, 1974.
"The Compleat Scott Joplin, If Rag is Your Bag." Crawdaddy,
June, 1974, pp. 82- 84.
"Cleo Laine." Stereo Review, March, 1974, pp. 66-67.
Day by Day by Cleo Laine. University Review, Jan., 1974.
Review of Black Theatre USA by James Hatch and Ted Shine, eds.
Village Voice, Sept. 26, 1974.
Review of Year One of the Empire by Elinor Fuchs and Joyce Antler.
Changes, Feb. 1, 1974, p. 16.
"Le Deuxieme Temps Du Rag." Jazz Magazine (Paris), Nov., 1974,
pp. 32-33.
Review of I Am a Song/Day by Day by Cleo Laine. Jazz Nytt
(Sweden), May/June, 1974, p. 5.
"We've Got the Blues." Jazz Nytt (Sweden), Jan., 1974, pp. 29-31.
Review of Ethel Waters' Greatest Years by Ethel Waters. Jazz
Nytt (Sweden), Jan., 1974, p. 31.
"The Bessie Smith Story." Jazz Magazine (Paris), May, 1973,
pp. 12-13, 36.
Review of Nobody's Blues But Hers by Chris Albertson. Jazz
Nytt (Sweden), Mar., 1973, pp. 21-23.
Review of Aphrodite at Mid-Century by Caryl Rivers. Village
Voice, Dec. 20, 1973.
Review of People's Theatre in America by Karen Malpede Taylor,
and Guerilla Theatre by John Weisman. Crawdaddy, Dec.,
1973, pp. 89-90.
"El Teatro Campesino: The Farmworker's Theater." Changes, Dec.,
1973, pp. 36- 37.
Review of Pressure Cookin' by Labelle. Crawdaddy, Dec.,
1973.
Review of Dory Previn in Concert by Dory Previn. Changes,
Sept./Oct., 1973.
Review of Home to Myself by Melissa Manchester. Crawdaddy,
Aug., 1973.
"Dory Previn: Laughing on Her Way to Where?" Crawdaddy, May,
1973, pp. 74- 77.
Nobody's Blues But Mine by Bessie Smith. Crawdaddy, Apr.,
1973.
"Dory Previn: Out of the Bell Jar." Downbeat, Jan., 1973, pp.
15, 37.
WRITINGS IN BOOKS BY OTHER AUTHORS/EDITORS
"Criticism, Culture, and Performance," PAJ authors in dialogue with
Edward Said in Power,Politics, and Culture: Interviews with Edward
Said. New York: Pantheon Books, 2001.
"Eine Kosmographie ihrer Selbst. Die Autobiologie Rachel Rosenthals,"
in
Körper-Inszenierungen Präsenz und kultureller Wandel, Erika
Fischer-Lichte and Anne Fleig, eds. . Tubingen, Germany: Attempto Verlag,
2000.
"Pensando all’interculturalismo," in La Crisi della
critica teatrale,
Valentina Valentini, ed. Rome: Bulzoni editore, 2000.
"The Economy of Tenderness," in The Theatre of Maria Irene
Fornes, Marc Robinson, ed. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1999.
"Nachdenken uber Performancegeschichte," in Transformationen:
Theater der Neuziger Jahre, Erika Fischer et al, eds. Berlin: Theater
der Zeit, 1999.
"Maria Irene Fornes," An Alphabet," in Conducting
a Life, Maria M. Delgado and Caridad Svich, eds. No. Stratford,
NH: Smith and Kraus, 1999.
"Richard Foreman’s Pandering to the Masses,"
in Richard Foreman, Gerald Rabkin, ed. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1999’
"A Cosmology of Herself: The Autobiology of Rachel Rosenthal,"
in Rachel Rosenthal, Moira Roth, ed. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1997.
Meredith Monk’s Atlas of Sound: New American Opera" in Meredith
Monk, Deborah Jowitt, ed. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1997.
"Presence of Mind," Introduction to Last Operas and Plays,
Gertrude Stein.
Baltimore, MD; Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
"Art and Consciousness," an Interview with Susan Sontag,
in Conversations with Susan Sontag, Leland Poague, ed. MS: University
of Mississippi Press, 1995.
"Art and the Imagery of Extinction," an Interview with Robert
Jay Lifton, in The Future of Immortality, Robert Jay Lifton.
New York: Basic Books, 1987.
PUBLICATIONS [ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES]
Advisory Editor to the fourth edition of Contemporary Dramatists,
St. James Press (U.K.), St. Martin's Press (U.S.), Spring 1986.
Contributor to Collier's Encyclopedia (Macmillan), 1986.
"Mabou Mines." Encyclopedia Del Teatro Del '900, ed. Antonio
Attisani (Milan: Feltrinelli, 1980), 249-50.
Over two dozen entries on American artists and theatres. The Academic
American (NewJersey: Arete, 1980).
LECTURES, TALKS, SYMPOSIA, PANELS - UNITED STATES
"Performance Ideas: A Series of Public Talks on the Contemporary Arts,"
curated with Meredith Monk. Nov. 5, 2001, "Art as Spiritual Practice."
Dec. 11, "Myth and the Contemporary." Held at Location One, a SoHo gallery.
"Table of Contents," lecture on Wallace Shawn, Muhlenberg College,
Center for Ethics and Leadership/Theatre Department, October 2, 2001.
Public conversation with composer Heiner Goebbels for Lincoln Center
Festival 2001 Symposium series. July 24, 2001, Kaplan Penthouse, Lincoln
Center.
Panel discussion on Contemporary Theatre, Columbia University, Dept.
of Theatre dramaturgs, December 12, 2000.
Talk on writing criticism, Young Critics Institute, Brooklyn Academy
of Music, Dept. of Education and Humanities, December 5, 2000.
"The Ecstasy of Presence: Performance and Culture at the The
Century Turning," The Willard and Margaret Thorp Lecture in American
Studies, Princeton University, March 7, 2000.
"Robert Wilson, A Dictionary," lecture, Dept. of Theatre,
University of Texas, Austin, October 29, 1999.
"The Theatre of Maria Irene Fornes," lecture and participation
in all-day symposium, "Focus on Fornes," Dept. of Theatre,
Hunter College, April 8, 1998.
"Ecology and the Theatre," talk at "The Arts and Ecology" panel, "Wild
City" (Terra Nova journal conference), The Learning Alliance,
New York City, February 8, 1997.
Pre-Performance (Fefu and Her Friends) lecture and conversation
with Maria Irene Fornes. Muhlenberg College, October 4, 1996.
"Visionary Theatrical Lives: Wilson, Monk, Rosenthal.," lecture, Brown
University, Dept. of Theatre, April 30, 1992.
"Changing Images of Theatre: Assessing Robert Wilson," panelist, Columbia
University, Dept. of English/Comparative Literature, October 10-13,
1990.
"The Century Turning," talk at The Drama Circle, Columbia University,
March 5, 1990.
"The American Avant-Garde." Live television broadcast to Belgrade,
Yugoslavia, via satellite on Worldnet, United States Information
Agency, Washington, D.C., September 15, 1989.
"The Critical Comment: Writing About Society and Art," panel discussion
and workshop, University of Vermont (Burlington), May 20, 1989.
"Heiner Muller and Contemporary Theatre," talk given for the Colloquium
on the Theory of the Avant-Garde, Dept. of French and Italian/Center
for French Civilization, New York University, Maison Francaise,
January, 1989.
"Theatre Criticism," lecture, Harold Clurman Seminar Series, Hunter
College (CUNY), May 4, 1987.
"The Turn of the Century," Du Pont Lecture Series at The University
of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, April 23, 1987.
"Performance Worlds: A Conference on Contemporary Theatre." All day
seminar co-sponsored by PAJ Publications and the Center for French
Civilization and Culture at New York University, November 15, 1986.
"Relationships Between Professional Theatre and Education." Panelist,
American Theatre Association Convention, New York, August 19, 1986.
"Writing/Thinking About Theatre." Chair, ATA Convention, New York,
August 17, 1986.
"Marguerite Duras and the Theatre," New York University Symposium and
Celebration,/Center for French Civilization and Culture. "Marguerite
Duras: Texte-Theatre-Film, " March 20, 1986.
"American Theatre," Conversation with editors of Performing Arts
Journal on WBAI Radio, October 1985.
Conversation on Theatre Criticism in "Critics on Criticism" series,
92nd. Street Y, New York, October 29, 1985.
"The Future of the Theatre," panel discussion sponsored by the Alliance
of Resident Theatres, City Center, New York, June 10,1985.
"Publishing and the Theatre World. "The Jane Globus Seminar Series
for Faculty Lecture, Bernard Baruch College (CUNY), December 1983.
"Contemporary Theatre, "talk in NEH Seminar, New York University, Dept.
of French and Italian, June 16, 1982.
"Contemporary Theatre Abroad," panel, ATA Convention, New York, August
18, 1982.
"Carolee Schneemann and Maria Irene Fornes: The Dialectics of Private
Space." Women in Theatre Symposium, Graduate Center (CUNY), May
14, 1982. Proceedings published in Centerpoint, Vol. 3, Nos.
3/4 (Fall/Spring, 1980), 31-37.
"Gesture and Language: The Semiotics of the New American Theatre,"
panel discussion, Graduate Center (CUNY), December 8, 1975.
LECTURES, SYMPOSIA, PANELS — INTERNATIONAL
"Theatre of the Ridiculous: A Contemporary View," lecture
at Steirische Herbst Festival, Graz, Austria, September 27, 1999.
"Contemporary American Theatre," lecture at John F.
Kennedy Institute, Freie Universitat, Berlin, May 5, 1999.
"Contemporary Performance," lecture at Justus Liebig University, Giessen,
Germany, January 27, 1999.
"American Theatre," talk at International Theatre Institute, Prague,
January 22, 1999.
"American Theatre," talk at International Theatre Institute, Warsaw,
November 27, 1998.
"American and European Theatre Today," talk at Theatre Academy, Warsaw,
November 30, 1998.
Public interview with Robert Wilson, American Academy in Berlin, November
16, 1998.
Keynote Address, "Performance History," International Theatre Studies
Congress ("Transformations: Theatre in the Nineties"), Freie Universitat/Humboldt
Universitat, Berlin, October 31, 1998.
"Autobiology and Performance," university lecture in "Korper- Inszenierungen"
series, Freie Universität (Berlin), May 25, 1998.
"Ecology and the Theatre," lecture at the University of Cosenza (Italy),
Dept. of Theatre, May 8, 1997.
"Ecology and the Theatre," lecture at the University of Rome III (Italy),
Dept. of American Studies, April 16, 1997.
Lectures based on Ecologies of Theatre at Dartington College
(Devon, England), May 27-30, 1996.
"Ecologies of Theatre" and "Relics of History,"
lectures at the University of Venice (Italy), Dept. of English and German,
June 6,7, 1996.
"Thoughts on Performance at the End of the Century," lecture
at John F. Kennedy Institute/ Free University (Berlin), May-June, 1996.
"New Performance Publishing." ICA Talks Series, Featured speaker. Institute
of ` Contemporary Arts, London, May 14-15, 1994.
International Critics Symposium, Panelist. Theater der Welt Festival,
Munich, Germany, June, 1993.
"Contemporary Theatre," talk at Dept. of Theatre, University of Giessen,
West Germany, June 5, 1990.
American delegate to International Theatre Institute Conference on
"Theatre Art and Mass Media," Moscow, U.S.S.R., October 30-November
2, 1988.
"World Theatrical Publishing." Participant in a conference organized
by the International Theatre Institute/UNESCO in Arezzo, Italy,
November, 1984.
MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL JURY
International jury member for TTV Video Festival, Riccione, Italy,
May 21-26, 1997.
CURATED EVENTS
"Robert Wilson on Video." Curated six evenings of the artist's work
in theatre, opera, video, and installation shown at Location One, a
Soho gallery and performance/media space, November 9, 10, 11 and November
17, 18, 19, 2000.
"Locution." Curate and conduct ongoing web series of conversations
with artists, critics, cultural figures, et al. Videotaped and broadcast
live online from Soho performance and media space (www.location1.org)
and then available in archived form. 2000 - 2001, completed talks with
Meredith Monk, Mac Wellman, Hanne Tierney and Theodora Skipitares, Rachel
Rosenthal, Judith Malina and Hanon Reznikov.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES/ADVISORY POSITIONS
Advisory Board, Maine College of Art, School of Graduate Studies (Portland),
2000 - .
Consultant, "Nuclear Threat and American Culture," a two-year project
at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY), Center for Violence
and Human Survival, Director: Robert Jay Lifton. 1990-93.
Board Member, Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of America, 1989-92.
Board Member, The Yeats Foundation (Ireland and U.S.), 1988-.
Dead Letters, performer in radio piece created by Gregory Whitehead
for National Public Radio, independent production, taped 1985.
Compilation of literary material for Paris Lights—The All-Star
Literary Genius Expatriate Revue. Premiered at the American
Place Theatre, New York, January 1980.
Literary Advisor, American Place Theatre, New York, 1977-80.
MEMBERSHIPS/ASSOCIATIONS
PEN American Club; The Fulbright Association
