Over the years I have been drawn to Bonnie Marranca’s writings and to her sensibilities, which are always exquisitely informed, personally engaged, theoretically penetrating, and poetically illuminating. Her new book of reflections and conversations is a welcome arrival at this moment of great social and political change. The breadth of her interests originates in the cultural life of New York City and then spreads out into the world. She tosses a wide net across the cultural waters, giving us access to her encounters with some of the most compelling artists of the past several decades.

Bonnie Marranca is the author of the essay volumes Performance Histories, Ecologies of Theatre, and Theatrewritings. She has edited numerous anthologies of plays and interviews that include Conversations with Meredith Monk, New Europe: plays from the continent, and Plays for the End of the Century. She is founding publisher and editor of PAJ Publications and PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art. (1976- )