A reflection on Coney Island's Waterboarding Thrill Ride , an animatronic installation by Steve Powers that gives viewers a chance to experience the Bush administration—approved “enhanced interrogation technique”—and for only a dollar, folks!

Reappropriating the iconography of “America” as portrayed in Melville's Moby-Dick, the New York-based Radiohole offers in Fluke what Steve Luber dubs a hyperreal performance. The hyperreal is also what happened to Sara Brady when she rode through Dublin with the international trio Rimini Protokoll as they reimagined the journey as a trek from Bulgaria to Ireland. The last Critical Act takes place in Tangier where Khalid Amine found Zoubeir Ben Bouchta's Lalla J'mila a negotiation of the terrains of law, gender, and “place-specific” theatre.

When big steel left Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, thousands of workers were out of jobs. A community-based theatre project adapts Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound to recollect and deal with the situation. But is Bethlehem Steel off the hook?