TRE Backissues Index 1996-2000

February '96

Voices in Contemporary Theatre: Wendy Wasserstein & Susan Miller

CyberTheatre Monthly: Lights, Camera, Data Connection

Features: TRE Trivia, Forum Insider's Tips, Gossip du jour

March '96

Voices in Contemporary Theatre: Andrew Lloyd Webber & the Empty Calories Theory

CyberTheatre Monthly: The commercialization of online theatre

Features: TRE Trivia, Forum Insider's Tips, Gossip du jour

April '96 - Fringe Festival issue

NEW COLUMN - Rubin's Corner: Off-Broadway to Broadway,

Voices in Contemporary Theatre: A Conversation with Gilbert Amyot

Fringe Festivals

CyberTheatre Monthly: A New Take on Theatre Websites (from the Orlando Fringe)

Features - TRE Trivia, Forum Insider's Tips, Gossip du jour

May '96

Voices in Contemporary Theatre: Awards, Recognition, and Hype

CyberTheatre Monthly: What do you mean "Download da Funk"?

Rubin's Corner: Broadway to Off-Broadway

And the Latest New From London’s West End…

Features - TRE Trivia, What's New in the Forum/Insider's Tips, Gossip du jour

June '96

1996 "I never looked at it that way" Awards

CyberTheatre Monthly: Finding hot Cybersites, Headshots Online-The Myths & The Facts

Rubin's Corner: Off-West End

TRE Trivia, What's New in the Forum/Insider's Tips, Gossip du jour

July '96

Rubin's Corner: A Trio of Revivals (and a Diva) Head for Broadway

Voices in Contemporary Theatre: Kushner & Mamet—When Playwrights get Passports

CyberTheatre Monthly: Which Side of the Proscenium

Features - TRE Trivia, What's New in the Forum, Gossip du jour

August '96

Rubin's Corner: Broadway Renaissance

CyberTheatre Monthly: Dramaturgy and the Internet

Voices in Contemporary Theatre: Revisiting Yesterday's Music

TRE Trivia, What's New in the Forum, Gossip du jour

September '96

Voices in Contemporary Theatre: Michael Crawford IS Frobozz!

Rubin's Corner: Theatre Excitement - A New Season

NEW COLUMN - The Play's the Thing: Maxwell Anderson: A Well -Versed Playwright

CyberTheatre Monthly: Interactivity

What's New in the Forum, TRE Trivia, Gossip du jour

October '96

Voices in Contemporary Theatre: Key West Theatre Festival

Rubin's Corner: A Definition of Broadway

The Play's the Thing: Sam Shepard - Two Wrongs Don't Make a (playw)Right

What's New in the Forum, TRE Trivia, Gossip du jour

November '96

Voices in Contemporary Theatre: The Scottish Curse Goes Digital

The Play's the Thing: Lillian Hellman

Rubin's Corner: A Definition of Off-Broadway,

Alan Ayckbourn

TRE Trivia, What's New & Gossip du jour

December '96

Rubin’s Corner: Martin Guerre Revisited

Steel Pier: A New Musical

The Play’s the Thing: Dear Santa

Voices: But why do we need the NEA?

TRE Trivia, What's New & Gossip du jour

January '97

The Play’s the Thing: Marsha Norman, Queen of the Lonely Hearts

Rubin's Corner: Ragtime Growth of a New

Voices: Another Year in Review

TRE Trivia, What's New & Gossip du jour

February '97

The Play’s the Thing: Structural Analysis of Fences

Rubin's Corner: Donal McCann Invades New York Again

Voices: Sex, Race, and Decency feuds put Theatre in the News
Dr. Joyce Brothers survey, August Wilson-Robert Brustein dialogue, Internet Decency Act

CyberTheatre Monthly: Virtual theatre district lacks Theatre

TRE Trivia, What's New & Gossip du jour

March '97

SPOTLIGHT ON Davis Gaines

Voices: Edward Albee

The Play's the Thing: As Real as it Gets

Rubin's Corner: Whatever Happened to That Beautiful Theatre

April '97

SPOTLIGHT ON Franz Harary, Illusionist from Ragtime

Voices: Breaking with Tradition

Rubin's Corner: Highlights of the Fall/Winter Season

CyberTheatre Monthly: Virtual Theatre at U Kansas

What's New in the Theatre Forum: INTRODUCING DRAMA TEACHER'S RESOURCE CENTER, News and Gossip, TRE Trivia,

May '97

SPOTLIGHT ON Richard Dresser's Below the Belt at THE OLD GLOBE

Voices: New York View of the World an Outdated Concept

Rubin's Corner: London, Here We Come

CyberTheatre Monthly: A Showsite with Showmanship

The Play's The Thing: Do you have any idea what plays weigh when you lug a box of them up a ramp of a moving truck (reprint: Marsha Norman Queen of the Lonely Hearts)

TRE Trivia, Gossip and News

June '97

Spotlight on: A New Feature - Norman's Theatre

Voices: The 1997 "I Never Thought of it That Way" Awards

Rubin's Corner: Taking a Chance (Julie Taymor/The Lion King)

CyberTheatre Monthly: Member Favorites (Theatre Development Fund, Broadway Live!, Dramatists Play Service)

The Play's the Thing: Greek Theatre, Santuary of the Gods

TRE Trivia: Command Performance (reprint of the '96 Tonys Trivia Questions)

Gossip & News

July, '97

Spotlight on - A New Column: Enter Laughing (Take my Seat...Please!)

The Play's the Thing: Gilbert & Sullivan, The Strained Marriage of Two Great Minds

CyberTheatre Monthly: What does the theatre-crowd on MSN do outside the Theatre Forum? I'm so glad you asked.

Voices: Theatre in the Mind - this idea is too good not to share, Letter from London

Rubin's Corner: New Globe Theatre Opens

Norman's Theatre, Trivia, Gossip & News

August, '97

Voices:  An Interview with Peter Stone/ Letter from London

The Play's the Thing:  Moliere: The French Shakespeare

Enter Laughing:  Theater for the Directionally Challenged

CyberTheatre Monthly:  The Best Eucational sites from the Best Outreach Programs: Kennedy Center & Lincoln Center

Rubin's Corner:  The Changing Face of Broadway?

Norman's Theatre, TRE Trivia, News

September, '97

Norman's Theatre

Voices in Contemporary Theatre:  "Voices of the Season"

The Play's the Thing:  The Biographical Play

Enter Laughing:  Feeling Peevish?

CyberTheatre Monthly:  THe Ultimate Broadway Midi Site

Rubin's Corner:  Goodbye to the Old Vic

Trivia & News

October, '97

Voices:  Maryellen Hooper: One on One

Norman's Theatre

The Play's the Thing:  The Biographical Play, Part II

Enter Laughing: The One that Got Away

CyberTheatre Monthly:  The Musical's Homepage

Rubin's Corner:  Parade

TRE Trivia, News

November '97 - SPECIAL MASTERCLASS ISSUE

Voices:  Directors Notes, A Diary of Gil Osborn while she was directing the Canadian Premiere

The Play's the Thing:  Terrence McNally

CyberTheatre Monthly:  Internet Sites related to Terrence McNally and Maria Callas

Rubin's Corner:  A reprint of La Divina (Zoe Caldwell as Maria Callas) and A Diva Returns to Broadway (Patti LuPone takes over the role)

Enter Laughing:  Pass Up the Opera, Start Hating it Now

TRE Diva Trivia, Theatre News

December, '97

NEW COLUMN:  Life in the Theatre by Gil Osborn

Voices:  The Cargo Cults, Dilbertism, and Orlando Theatre A Case Study

The Play's the Thing:  Dear Santa

CyberTheatre Monthly:  Very Special Art

Rubin's Corner: Tickets, Tickets, Tickets

TRE Trivia, Gossip & News

January, '98

Life in the Theatre:  Cyberia

Enter Laughing:  Roots... or, How I stopped worrying about forgetting my lines and learned to enjoy life

The Play's the Thing:  Poking Fun at Ourselves: The Play-Within-A-Play

Voices:  New Voice for David Hare

CyberTheatre Monthly:  The Chainsaw is your Friend, and other words of wisdom on RealAudio

Rubin's Corner:  The Return of Cherry Jones

Titanic Trivia, Gossip & News

February, '98

NEW COLUMN:  Opera Today

CyberTheatre Monthly:  Sardi's Online

Voices:  Harlem Vogue

Rubin's Corner:  The Ford Center for the Performing Arts

Life in the Theatre:  Cyberia Revisited

The Play's the Thing:  While the Directors's Away

Enter Laughing/Norman's Theatre, Trivia, Gossip & News

March, '98

The Play's the Thing:  Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival

CyberTheatre Monthly:  A Musicals Database, Inside Actors Studio, Active Desktop

Opera Today

Enter Laughing:  Everything I need to know about life I learned from Theatre

Voices Michael Grief, Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters

Rubin's Corner

April, '98

The Play's the Thing:  Hamlet through 9 monologues

Mailbag:  Reader Letters on Stage Describers for the Blind & other topics

CyberTheatre Monthly:  Undiscovered Musicals, Peekaboo Festivals, TheatreWorld UK E-zine

TRE Trivia:  Androgeny & Cross-Dressing

Enter Laughing:  Once More into the Breach, Dear Friends

Voices:  Gainig Respect, A Golden Rule

Rubin's Corner:  Spring Blooms on Broadway

May '98

The Play's the Thing:  A Performance Reconstruction

CyberTheatre Monthly:  Canadian Actors' Biztalk, Broadway University, Bring in 'da Noise/Bring in 'da Funk

Life in the Theatre

Voices in Contemporary Theatre Counts to 10:  Theatre Haiku, Mailbag, Quotes

Rubin's Corner:  Denver Center for the Performing Arts

Summer '98

Life in the Theatre: Gil Osborn looks at the real-world applications of skills we develop in theatre   

Enter Laughing: Dressing up the Theatre - Wayne takes a hard look at what audiences are wearing

Voices in Contemporary Theatre:  Musings from Dick Hill (Boomers) and Trevor Nunn (National Theatre)   

The Play's the Thing: Caprice Woosley takes an in-depth look at A Doll's House's Nora    

CyberTheatre Monthly: Worldwide Freezone DJ session live on Nirvanet

Rubin's Corner: Robert Rubin looks at Chess, the musical that will not die    

September '98

Life in the Theatre: Dealing with the creative dry-patch

Letter from London: New Correspondent Laurence Gibson visits the Reduced Shakespeare Company

Voices in Contemporary Theatre: Spirit Dance, Casting Twelfth Night, A Chat with Gary Izzo, Billie Thrash: A Non-Star's perspective on star-studded Follies

The Play's the Thing: Welcome to The Hamlet Family Feud

Rubin's Corner: Robert Rubin muses about New Music, and revisits the Long, Hot Summer.

CyberTheatre Monthly:  The International Center for Women Playwrights,  The Oscar Wilde Quote Generator

Enter Laughing:  Here's one creative solution to the stalled-manuscript dilemma.

October '98

November '98

New Column: Techie's Corner by Michael Powers: Set Design, from the beginning

The Play's the Thing: Peter Brook and the Art of Collaboration

Enter Laughing: T'was the Night Before Opening, and TheatreGenie

Rubin's Corner: Dance vs. Dance

CyberTheatre Monthly: This month: Acting-Pro, Creative Planet, Parodies of JH and Les Mis, and Theatredirectories.com

Voices in Contemporary Theatre: Is Fiction more real than reality?

December '98

Techie's Corner: Rain!

The Play's the Thing: Commedia dell'arte

Enter Laughing: A New Showbiz Joke, "You know you work in Community Theatre if..." and heldover from last month: T'was the Night Before Opening

Rubin's Corner: Parade

Voices in Contemporary Theatre, From the Mailbag: Shakespeare in Love

CyberTheatre Monthly: New York Entertainment Town 1998, National Alliance of Musical Theatres, Actors' Equity Association, Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg

January '99

February '99

March-April '99

The Play's the Thing: A Glimpse behind the scenes of Floyd Collins

Rubin's Corner: The Weir and Closer Swim Across the Pond

Voices in Contemporary Theatre: SSDC secures victor for Director's and Designer's property Rights

Techie's Corner by Michael Powers: Pools, Streams and Waterfalls

CyberTheatre Monthly: Women in Theatre Links, Onassis Prize - Athens 2001

Held Over from Last Month: Enter Laughing - A New Showbiz Joke, "You know you work in Community Theatre if..."

May-June '99

CyberTheatre Monthly: Backstage: CD-ROM starring Carol Channing Quick Picks: History of the Musical, History of Stage Spectacle

Rubin's Corner: So Crazy for English Theatre, Announcing a Major Revival - Theatre Row

Voices in Contemporary Theatre: Flop Musical/Snubbed Play, Tony Noms, Drama Desk Dramas and all that jazz. From the mailbag: Actresses at work

Techie's Corner by Michael Powers: The last several columns have been about water, so now it's time to talk about fire

Enter Laughing: Glossary

Summer '99

The Play's the Thing: A Glimpse behind the scenes of Floyd Collins, Part II, An interview with Dr. Rick Simas, assistant director

Rubin's Corner: Coming Broadway Season gets into the sing of things.

Techie's Corner by Michael Powers: Fire and more fire 

Enter Laughing: Production Meeting Buzz - useful phrases for a variety of situations, A great response to rejection, From the Mailbag - A Tonys Night Menu 

CyberTheatre Monthly: Stealing this Stage - Women in Theatre in '99, Bachus Fringe 'zine, Inkslink, Playwrites.com, Stageplays.com 

Voices in Contemporary Theatre: Wendy Wasserstein Excerps, Director's Notes: A daily journal as guest writer Querida directs Guys and Dolls 

August '99

The Play's the Thing: So Who Died and Left Me Boss?  Caprice Woosley muses about what could be and what should never be in the theatre world.

Enter Laughing: Some production advice that probably hasn't occurred to you, and Production Meeting Buzz - held over from last month 'cause the editor isn't done using them in real meetings.

Voices in Contemporary Theatre: Encouraging news in the long hot summer.

Rubin's Corner: Mamma Mia and a Musical Autobiography with a Range of Styles. 

CyberTheatre Monthly: A Moment of Silence for Tonys.org, Finnegan's Farewell, and From the Mailbag: Choosing a Theatre E-mail address.

September-October '99

The Play's the Thing:  Anatomy of an Audition or The Art of Keeping Directors in the Same Room 

Enter Laughing: Some corrections from the TRE editorial staff and columnists

Voices in Contemporary Theatre: Last month I promised a return to my trademark cosmopolitan cynicism, and invited e-mail on the subject of amateurs who think they're professional.  Towards that end:  A glossary of Amateurism, Professionalism, and the Bay of Pigs:  

Rubin's Corner:  New Productions for the Fall 

CyberTheatre Monthly:  Broadcast.com, Industry Central, Tales from the Deck. 

Techie's Corner by Michael Powers:  Columnist Michael Powers returns with more expertise for creating Fire

November-December '99

Techie's Corner: winding up our section on methods of creating fake fire for the stage with a brief discussion on torches, candles and lanterns.

Rubin's Corner:  Kiss Me Kate, News on This and That

Voices in Contemporary Theatre: The Chekov Project, A Research Question 

CyberTheatre Monthly: The Field, Art Broadcasting Network, Sharyn Shipley, Zorro, and Another Theatre Glossary

Enter Laughing: Theatre vs. Theater, Thespian Ruminations, Cures for Writers Block

January-February '00

Enter Laughing: The classic struggle "The Show must go on" ­vs­ "This is stupid, I'm going home" and other classic Techie quotes.

Rubin's Corner: The Millennium Poll, Putting it Together

Voices in Contemporary Theatre: This month, an overview of Diverse voices: Joe Orton, Regina Taylor at Goodman, Tom Stoppard, and unsung Kurt Weill ...and Good News from the Mailbag

CyberTheatre Monthly: Curtainup.com, Play's at What's that Line, StageSpecs.com, and New York Theatre Wire

The Play's the Thing: The Glass Menagerie- Breathing new life into an old favorite.

February-March '00

Voices in Contemporary Theatre: Spotlight on Providence. New Columnist Willis Whyte profiles Perishable Theatre Scene & Reviews Night and Shakespeare

Enter Laughing: A Showbiz Dictionary: A buzz-word to reality translator 

Techie's Corner by Michael Powers: New series on Platforms 

Rubin's Corner: Sondheim's Saturday Night

CyberTheatre Monthly : Channel P, Jeffrey Sweet's Homepage, Shakespeare Duck, BroadwayNewYork.com

The Play's the Thing: The Chekov Project Follow-up 

March-April '00

The Play's the Thing: Arthur Miller's Ride Down Broadway, by new Play's the Thing columnist: Yvonne Hudson 

Voices in Contemporary Theatre: From the Mailbag: The Ballad of Us and Them 

Theatre is Alive and Well in Providence 

Rubin's Corner: The Lady in the Van E

Enter Laughing: Stage Manager 1.0, a Tech Support Transcript 

CyberTheatre Monthly: Shakespeare Sites, New Additions in Stages, DramaInfo Listserve

April-May '00

The Play's the Thing: Shakespeare Today, Happy Birthday Will and Best Wishes on your 436th Year. 

Voices in Contemporary Theatre: New CD:  Broadway's First Take, My Fair Lady at Trinity Repertory Theatre, New Off-Broadway Musical: Abie's Island Rose

Rubin's Corner: Disney's Aida, Spotlight on Amadeus 

Enter Laughing: An ArtSearch Nightmare

CyberTheatre Monthly: Links for U.K. readers, CultureFinder's "Meet the Pros" Celebrity Chats"

Techie's Corner: Second in Michael Powers series on Platforms 

Letter from London: Peter Hall's Evening Standard Interview, RSC's Richard II, Mamma Mia! What Clippings

May-June '00

Voices in Contemporary Theatre: Voices off-Broadway and in the regionals, and in University Drama Departments...Harriet Tubman comes to New York, Theatre Lore and the Mailbag  

The Play's the Thing: Tom Stoppard and Spotlight on The Real Thing 

Techie's Corner:  Third Part in Michael Powers series on Platforms

CyberTheatre Monthly : Internet Theatre Database, A new web resource - Arts power to Heal, Broadway & Broadband

Rubin's Corner:  Broadway & Off-broadway, Hansen's Cab and Spotlight on The Music Man

Letter from London:  Trevor Nunn, Richard Eyre, RSC, Stage-Fight and West End Players 

Summer 2000

Voices in Contemporary Theatre - Assorted Quotes, and News from Providence 

Techie's Corner - 4th installment of Michael Powers series on Platforms 

Enter Laughing - Shakespeare for Cats 

CyberTheatre Monthly - Museums With Theater/Performing Art Information 

Letter from London - by way of Ann Arbor: the RSC partnership with the University of Michigan and first cycle of histories 

Rubin's Corner: - Sir John Gielgud remembered. 

The Play's the Thing - Wendy Wasserstein 

August-September 2000

CyberTheatre Monthly : Tim Robbin's Cradle Will Rock has raised awareness of the 30s Federal Theatre Project; Seth's Broadway Chatterbox; New England Entertainment Digest 

Techie's Corner: Legs, Legs, Legs (Betty Grable, Eat Your Heart Out!) 

Voices in Contemporary Theatre: The Citizen's Theatre Project - a look at theatre's impact on a downtown revitalization project, Tantalus 

Rubin's Corner: Cameron Mackintosh's latest blockbuster:  The Witches of Eastwick, Icons and Outcasts, That Ilk 

Letter from London: RSC at the Edinburgh Fringe, Peter Hall talks up Tantalus  

The Play's the Thing: The Review's the thing? Jean Stapleton in Eleanor: Her Secret Journey

October-November 2000

Voices in Contemporary Theatre: Mary Lathrop looks at Life on the Fringe

The Play's the Thing: Caprice Woosley is back and she's brought a friend

Life in the Theatre: Willis Whyte:  "Payback is a Bitch"  

Letter from London: Laurence Gibson looks in on London's hype-monster Notre-Dame de Paris 

Rubin's Corner: Robert Rubin reports on Broadway's coming attractions and visits last season's hit Contact! 

CyberTheatre Monthly: From Tom Stoppard to Hamlet, this Month's links from Barnes & Noble speak for themselves. 

Enter Laughing: A really healthy way to take rejection 

November - December 2000

Techie's Corner: Platforms 5: Studwalls 

The Play's the Thing: Eleanora Duse: Powerful Stillness/Splendid Fervor 

Voices in Contemporary Theatre: Prolific South African playwright Athol Fugard recently spoke about the power of the arts in creating world peace before a production of Aristophanes' Lysistrata at San Diego State University. From the mailbag: Edward Albee 

Letter from London: Laurence Gibson investigates the other RSC, the Reduced Shakespeare Company 

Rubin's Corner: The Full Monty 

CyberTheatre Monthly : 'tis the season to start shopping. TRE looks at theatre-themed gifts at The Broadway Cares shop and the Broadway Theatre Archive 

Enter Laughing: A Fashion Intervention

December 2000 - January 2001

CyberTheatre Monthly : Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope embrace's One-Acts, Webman's Theatre-Storie of 2000 (with links), Broadway Theatre Search Engine

Enter Laughing:  Caprice and Rebecca have taken a month off from The Play's the Thing to bring you a holiday special

Voices in Contemporary Theatre:  Willis White celebrates the holidays at Trinity Rep, From the Mailbag:  Theatre Startup Wisdom from MusicMaker's Digest, Manhattan Theatre Club's New Musical and Atlantic Theatre Company's Force Continuum 

Letter from London :  RSC's This England, and The Secret Garden

Techie's Corner:  Michael Powers continues his series on Platforms 

Rubin's Corner:  Robert Rubin looks at Two Opposite Musicals:  Seussical and Jane Eyre, Coming Soon:  Blast!

Life in the Theatre:  Re(in)jecting A Little Humor - Mary Lathrop wonders what might happen if someone actually sent the Enter Laughing Rejection Letter