This is about a play that deals with suicide. It’s okay if you don’t want to read it. I went to Staunton yesterday afternoon to see Ginna Hoben perform Every Brilliant Thing. For those who aren’t familiar with it, this is a one-person show by Duncan McMillan and Jonny Donahoe, about a person whose mother […]
Time for a story about how I became the director I am. In 2002, I was interning at the American Shakespeare Center. This was before they had any kind of formal internship program, so the deal basically was that I worked with their summer camp during the day, and in the evening, I could go […]
I went to see an actual play, in person, with humans. The last play-ish thing I saw was Bread and Puppets on March 10. I don’t know if I have gone five months without seeing or doing a play since I was in middle school. Probably not. I went mostly because I was curious about […]
I was very excited when I heard about the 2019 summer/fall season at the American Shakespeare Center: Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, and Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra. I’m kind of obsessed with Shakespeare’s Roman plays. Due to other obligations and theater-going opportunities, I didn’t end up seeing them until the end of the season. I […]
I should just start by saying, I am not a fan of The Comedy of Errors. I nearly didn’t go to see it. But I knew my kids would enjoy it–they are in a phase of being quite excited about physical comedy. We were able to get a few homeschool friends to join us for […]
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 […]
Why Theater? I have this theory that if your kids get into theater, they’ll be too busy to cause much trouble. One of the best ways to get them into theater is to take them to see it. People ask me sometimes how I managed to train my kids to be such good theater-goers. To […]
All images are by Lindsey Walters, Miscellaneous Media Photography. I was lucky enough to direct Much Ado About Nothing at the American Shakespeare Center Theater Camp this summer. I had a great time! Some things about it were sort of weird, just because I’m in a very different life stage from everyone else involved (I’m a good […]
It’s pancake day, my friends. And that always makes me remember one of the best nights of my life. When I was in grad school, for complicated reasons, I moved my thesis project up by a semester. As a result, I was one of the first (maybe the first?) from my cohort to present my […]
So, this is what I wrote on Facebook this morning: “[An EMU student] reminded me why today is important–it’s class registration day at EMU (apparently. By “reminded” I mean “informed”). I’m teaching theater history and also vocations. So register! It’s going to be the best theater history class ever. Recent grads should audit it just for […]