To provide both an enriching theatre experience for students and faculty and new opportunities for women artists, the Department of Theatre Arts and Speech at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey at Newark held a competition for new plays by New Jersey women playwrights. The winning play, Leni Hamilton's "The Fortress," a story of…

Discusses producing German language plays as a way to increase student facility in spoken German and at the same time promote campus-wide contact with German language and culture. (EKN)

Three articles about Victor Hugo and his work focus on commemorative publications and exhibits in recognition of the 100-year anniversary of his death and on his theatrical works. (MSE)

An introductory problem for a theatre history course presents the process of group decision making and problem solving in theatre studies, encourages students to compare values when collecting information and making decisions, and illustrates the variety of dramatic forms, production styles, and economic concerns of contemporary theatre. Entitled…

The cultural element has traditionally been incorporated into language study in a variety of ways. Part one of this section describes one method. At the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, culture is taught as part of a required four-year sequence of courses entitled "Liberal Education Seminars" which introduce the student to cultural environment…