Sometimes the best shows are the ones you didn’t plan to see. I was all set to check out Shit-faced Shakespeare, when I learned it happened to have a hiccup in its usual schedule and wasn’t playing after all. More or less at random, I ended up seeing Ride the Cyclone, a musical I knew […]
Dad’s Garage is a comedy theater that does a mix of scripted and improvised shows. I caught a preview performance of a new, scripted show called Ad Nauseum, written and directed by Megan Leahy. I almost didn’t go to this show because the premise sounded a bit tired and reductive: It takes place in a […]
You may remember Bridget McCarthy from my (depressingly popular–I wish this didn’t resonate with everyone) post about Juliet being played by somebody whose body type is not… sylphish? She’s developing a one-woman show, called Fat Juliet, which she says was catalyzed by our work together on her Juliet audition monologue. That story isn’t in the […]
Bridget is playing Laertes at “the other ASC,” so I decided to find a time to come see it, meet people in Atlanta, and check out the theater. Inspired by Shakespeareances, I have been trying to see more theater outside of universities. So much Shakespeare is happening all over the country, and I want to […]
I took the kids to see Merry Wives at a school matinee performance last week. They were–as usual–fidgety as all get out, but later said that they loved it. Petra’s favorite part was the fairies pinching Falstaff, and Silas said what he liked best was when Falstaff was dressed as the Witch of Brentford and […]
I’ve been hearing about various productions of Arden of Faversham over the past year, due largely to its status as a possible Shakespeare play (or collaboration). The American Shakespeare Center included it in their winter season, so I had a chance to check it out (special thanks to Eric Minton who swapped me a ticket […]
Preparing to see American Idiot was kind of nerve-wracking. I hadn’t seen the show before, but I have a history with Green Day. Dookie was the first album I bought myself as a middle-schooler. “Good Riddance/Time of Your Life” was the prom song for our class and everyone else who graduated that year (JC reminded […]
I’m a big fan of Shakespeare-adjacent theater, as a category. That can either mean plays by Shakespeare’s contemporaries (Dr. Faustus), or plays about Shakespeare’s life (Shakespeare’s Sister), or plays in response to Shakespeare’s plays (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead) or, as in the case of Red Velvet, plays about people performing the works of Shakespeare or his contemporaries. These plays can […]
I spent my birthday week in Montclair, New Jersey, helping to organize and run the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival for Region 2. It’s my last year as the workshops coordinator, and I’m proud to say we had over 100 workshops, in every area of theater. We had to cancel a few due to weather issues (we […]
I’ve been wanting to get over to West Liberty University for ages, to see what Michael Aulick is doing. I know Michael because we’re both on leadership for KCACTF Region 2, and I’ve been impressed with the work his students have brought to the festival, as well as with his intense recruiting. At a time […]