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Recent Articles about Theatre and Culture
"A Happy Union," Review of Scott Cummings' Remaking American Theatre: Charles Mee, Anne Bogart and the SITI Company, in Theatre (Yale), 38.1 (2008).
"Cruel Britannia," in Cool Britannia: British Political Drama in the
1990s, Eds. Graham Saunders and Rebecca D'Monte (London: Palgrave,
2007).
"Ghosts from an Imperfect Place: Philip Ridley's Nostalgia," in Modern Drama, 50:3 (2007).
"The Body's Cruel Joke: The Comic Theatre of Sarah Kane," in A Concise
Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Drama, Eds. Mary Luckhurst
and Nadine Holdsworth (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007, pgs. 149-170).
"Contemporary American Playwriting: The Issue of Legacy, Jason Grote,
Caridad Svich, and Anne Washburn in conversation with Ken Urban,"
PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, 84 (September 2006). [pdf]
"Thoughts on Globalization and The Female Terrorist Project," Contemporary Theatre Review, 16.1 (February 2006). [pdf]
"Towards a Theory of Cruel Britannia: Coolness, Cruelty and the 'Nineties," NTQ: New Theatre Quarterly, 80 (November 2004). Translated into Czech in Svet a Divadlo (World and Theatre), 5-6 (2005). [pdf]
"An Ethics of Catastrophe: The Theatre of Sarah Kane," PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, 69 (September 2001). [pdf]
Review of Sarah Kane's Crave, Theatre Journal, 53 (2001). [pdf]
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Forthcoming Articles
"The Censor in the Mirror," in Out of Silence: Censorship and Self-Censorship in Theatre and Performance, Ed. Caridad Svich (Manchester, UK: Manchester UP, forthcoming).
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Recent Articles about Urban's Work
Isaac Butler, "You Gotta Have  : Ken Urban's I KANT," The Brooklyn Review, September 2006. [pdf] [html]
Aleks Sierz, Introduction to The Female Terrorist Project: A Dystopia in Twenty-Eight Scenes, in New York Theater Review, Ed. Brook Stowe (New York: Black Wave Press, 2005). [pdf]
Jason Grote, "A Poetics of Terror: The Theatre of Ken Urban," The Brooklyn Rail, July-August 2004. [pdf] [html]
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Interviews
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nyte.org
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Selected Recent Press
Claudia La Rocco, “Must Check This Out! Eskimos Speak Spam! Who Knew?,” Review of The Private Lives of Eskimos, New York Times, 12 September 2007.
Martin Denton, Review of The Private Lives of Eskimos, nytheatre.com, 9 September 2007.
Anita Gates, “Seeing Four Women’s Lives, Full of Pluses and Minues,” Review of I KANT, New York Times, 13 September 2006.
Kerri Allen, Review of Ken Urban’s I KANT, Time Out, September 21-27, 2006
Sam Thielman, Review of Review of Ken Urban’s I KANT, Backstage, 19 September 2006.
Maya Avrasin, Review of Review of Ken Urban’s I KANT, Show Business Weekly, 20 September 2006.
Steven Mikulan, “Before the Fall,” Feature Article on The Absence of Weather, LA Weekly, March 11–17, 2005
Philip Brandes, “A chilling look at a Cold War strategist,” Review of The Absence of Weather, Los Angeles Times, 4 March 2005.
David C. Nichols, “Women warriors with a ‘Project,’” Review of The Female Terrorist Project, Los Angeles Times, 11 February 2005.
Eric Marchese, “’Terrorist Project’ hits its target,” Review of The Female Terrorist Project, OC Register, 11 February 2005.
Joel Beers, “Unholy Three: In Praise of Urban’s Dramaturgical Excess,” Review of New Jersey Trilogy, OC Weekly, 29 August – 4 September 2003.
David C. Nichols, “’Trilogy’ takes an edgy look at dysfunction,” Review of New Jersey Trilogy, Los Angeles Times, 16 August 2003.
Chris Jensen, Review of I KANT, Seattle Weekly, 9 May 2002.
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