Before we return to our regularly scheduled reviewing, I wanted to take a moment--not to look back on 2008, but to look forward to 2009. One of the goals of Theater Talk's New Theater Corps is, after all, to be excited about the future of theater, and rather than dwell over the best and worst of last year, it seems more appropriate to take a look around and appreciate all the delightfully unexpected possibilities in store for us this year. (Of course, not everybody enjoys being surprised at the theater, and that's why one of our other goals is to help describe just how very much is out there--to avoid reductive bashes [or even praises], but to identify what's being done and why it is so very important and vital, why it is--at least to us--so beloved a medium.)
This year, make (and follow through) on this one simple resolution: see something new. Go to a venue you've never been to, hear the voice of a playwright you don't know, discover the talents of the many rising stars in the theater. And feel free to tell us about it. After all, the best is always yet to come.
- Aaron Riccio
Editor, Theater Talk's New Theater Corps
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