The July-August 2005 issue of American Theatre explores "history theater" and new challenges to criticism. The issue includes a wide-ranging interview with Native American playwright William S. Yellow Robe Jr. by South Dakota journalist David Rooks, a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation. Yellow Robe's play, "Grandchildren of the Buffalo Soldiers," examines the toll of 19th-century events on contemporary reservation life. Randy Gener writes about a two-pronged project by Perseverance Theatre that explores early-20th-century Filipino immigration to Alaska. And Ben Cameron suggests that critics may have a larger cultural role than "cultural endorser" -- now that Zagat has entered the Manhattan theater scene. [LINK] Posted by Linda Frye Burnham