16
Mar

Where Our Work Is

I keep thinking about this article from the SDC Journal, by the brilliant Sara Holdren. It’s the genre of article we’ve all read a thousand times and are kind of sick of: “How does the theater look after pandemic?” kind of thing. But it’s smart, funny, compelling. It’s what all those other articles are trying […]

28
Feb

Hadestown on Broadway!

My son and I have been obsessed with Hadestown since the soundtrack was released. He’s memorized Workin’ on a Song. We quote it in our day-to-day conversation. So when Broadway was reopening, I knew this was the show we needed to prioritize. The tickets were our family Christmas present, but we didn’t actually see the […]

17
Feb

Auditions for Merry Wives

It’s been a long time, and I can hardly wrap my mind around the fact that it’s happening, but… I’m directing Merry Wives of Windsor at Quill Theatre for the Richmond Shakespeare Festival! We’ll be performing in the gardens at Agecroft Hall. This is going to be super fun! I know not everyone loves Merry […]

19
Dec

KCACTF: On the Road Again!

I’m post-dating this so that it will be hidden until after the meeting to decide invited productions for the Region 2 festival. I saw these shows from October 30-November 7. One cool think that the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival does is to send professors and professional theater people out to see university shows […]

14
Aug
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Romeo and Juliet at Starling Shakespeare

Alumni of the Shakespeare and Performance graduate program at the American Shakespeare Center have founded or taken on the leadership of, a number of classical theater companies, drawing on the ASC’s scholarship and aesthetic, but with their own unique twist. Just off the top of my head: Flagstaff Shakespeare Festival (Arizona), Pigeon Creek Shakespeare (Michigan), […]

25
Jul

Peter Brook Project: The Open Circle

I read this book by accident as part of my endeavor to read all of Peter Brook’s published work. It was miscatalogued as being written by him, but actually, the authors are Andrew Todd and Jean-Guy Lecat. This was a happy mistake, though, in that I learned a lot from this book, so I’m glad […]