by Anne Cattaneo | Jul 2, 2025 | Ask a Dramaturg, Interesting Plays, Images, Ideas
This is such a year of change for us all. And I think as a dramaturg I am inclined to try to think deeply and understand what on earth is going on both in the country and in the theater and what I can contribute to righting a ship that seems to be veering off...
by Anne Cattaneo | Aug 3, 2021 | Ask a Dramaturg
Amy, Missoula MT Answer: Excellent question! I think the answer to the first part of your query at this moment in history is “social media!” Ask everyone to put the word out that you are looking. And see if anyone in your company knows or has worked with a good...
by Anne Cattaneo | Sep 5, 2021 | Ask a Dramaturg
Answer: Participant in the 2020 Directors Lab West Zoom chat This is the most important question all theater people have to ask. And the more creatively you answer it early in your career the greater your potential as a theater artist will be. I would not recommend...
by Anne Cattaneo | Aug 19, 2021 | Interesting Plays, Images, Ideas
“One genius actor is not theater; it is a monster, a miracle. To prefer one good actor over a good ensemble is to deny the very essence of theater; the concept of theater includes the notion of the collective.” Yevgeny Vakhtangov Yevgeny Vakhtangov, (born...
by Anne Cattaneo | Aug 19, 2021 | Interesting Plays, Images, Ideas
I’m not sure how I came across the backstage photographs – a series now a few decades old – of Klaus Frahm. But I found them immediately not only beautiful and compelling, but somehow so emotionally resonant with the love we feel for making...