This Issue | Scene4 Magazine July 2017

Michael
John
Trotta

Music Born of Necessity

Carla Maria
Verdino-Süllwold

Women Who
Write

A Quiet Passion
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Their Finest

A canonical story about a woman writer in a male-dominated world.

Miles David Moore

San Francisco
Recent Photographs

The photography of
Jon Rendell

Keurig Thinking
This being the United States under its 21st-century capitalist overlords, Keurigization has leaked into other product lines.
Michael Bettencourt

Fifteen Minutes Backstage
This practice was so prevalent, it became (as it usually does backstage) a superstition. Never start on time! To this day, there are managers who swear by it.
Arthur Meiselman

Hubris
Since I know this story from a month ago & it appears to have rashomon written all over it, I leave it alone.
Claudine Jones

View from the Window That Isn’t There
Tonight a play is being performed in the shadow of the ruin. A designer has nestled some platforms in a corner and a crowd sits on the grass.
Nathan Thomas

Learning From the Movies IV: Conspiracy and Disinformation
You can’t make this stuff up. The fact that these corporate corporals
gave their deceitful campaign a military-style name defies parody.
Patrick Walsh

The Musical Side Of Jonathan Demme
Who would have thought you could film a monologue performance and be able to make a full length feature out of it?
Les Marcott

Delivering a Successful
Poetry Reading

Throwing tomatoes
at the poor poet.

Karren LaLonde Alenier

The Steiny Road To Operadom | Karren LaLonde Alenier | Scene4 Magazine | www.scene4.com

Giddy in Wuzhen:

China’s cutting edge theatre festival.

Lissa Tyler Renaud

Arts of Thailand

Interview with
Chaisak Chaiboon

Spectacular and
hard to describe

Janine Yasovant
คลิกเพื่ออ่านบทความนี้ เป็นภาษาไทย

Colors of the Roundtable: Afterword | David Wiley | Scene4 Magazine | July 2017 | www.scene4.com

Afterword

Thus began the slow and difficult work of saving the planet, and eliminating the means and reasons for destruction.

David Wiley

Old Fart Village

The Latest from
WikiLeaks

Elliot Feldman


	George Stillman House: Towards a Profession Worthy of Serious Consideration Lissa Tyler Renaud

		Mario’s Theme Song What's the name of his game? Mario's game is change Griselda Steiner


	Thomas Hardy’s Poetry in Song Lewis Alpaugh

Return to Emerald City
~
Checkmarks on a List for Eternity

The Art of
David Wiley


	Undress Me Michael Bettencourt In a bar, Laura turns to Stefan and asks him to undress her by word of mouth, in his best mother tongue.


	The Greed Gene Michael Bettencourt A young couple is told by their genetic counselor, the "genie of genes" that their child has the greed gene, and there is nothing they can do.

Scene4 Magazine: Perspectives - Audio | Theatre Thoughts | Michael Bettencourt April 2016 | www.scene4.com


	THEATRE THOUGHTS


	An astute and entertaining array of audio essays on an array of topics by an astute and entertaining essayist.


Letters to the Editor Recent Letters

Qreviews Long & short reviews of theatre, film and more

Que Pasa Notices, announcements and coming attractions


	Karren LaLonde Alenier The Dresser addresses what’s underneath the art

	Miles David Moore Thoughts and observations from, to, for or against


		Arthur Meiselman Nightdances

	Les Marcott Dr. Barnabus T. Bynum's Travelling Minstrel Show


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