• What’s Up, Doc?: The Ethics of Fact and Fabulation in Documentary Performance: A Forum
    By Alexis Soloski

    Toward the close of each performance of Mike Daisey’s The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, Daisey would lean forward and murmur, conspiratorially, “Tonight—we know the truth.” But truth, as pertains to Daisey’s monologue, documentary performance, and the theater generally, is a fungible concept.

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  • Portfolio: The Tempest
    By Ken Reynolds

    For Theater’s spring 2013 edition (43:1), contributing editor Ken Reynolds organized a dossier of his photographs of great Shakespeare productions from around the globe. While the project was in press, a new production of The Tempest premiered in Romania, directed by Silviu Purcărete—an artist Reynolds has long been following. Here are his photos of this extraordinary 2012 production at the National Theatre of Craiova. With set and costume design by Dragoş Buhagiar.

  • Silviu Purcărete photo dossier
    By Ken Reynolds

    Romania’s 2012 National Theater Festival honored the directing work of Silviu Purcărete, the master director celebrated for his exquisite visual imagination and sublime renderings of classical repertory. Theater’s contributing editor Ken Reynolds has photographed Purcărete’s work for decades, and he attended the commemoration in Bucharest. Here is a selection of his photographs, spanning Purcărete’s directing oeuvre.