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When The Maids by Jean Genet closed on Sunday March 22nd, the cast had been together almost every day for five months.  Just before the production ended I caught up with our ... Read More ›

Well, here we are in week four of the process of putting together The Lion in Winter.  I don’t know why, but even after acting professionally for more than 10 years, I ... Read More ›

I’m reading an article in this week’s New Yorker about Mark Rylance, the celebrated English actor and founding artistic director of the Globe Theatre in London. One of his former directors said ... Read More ›

It’s always difficult for me to let go of a project – (well….usually it’s difficult!) but this has been an especially hard show to bid it’s fond farewell.  In just four short ... Read More ›

We are about to start our extension week, which I like to think of as the post-season. It’s like we had a great year and won our division so we get to ... Read More ›

One of the most difficult and unsung roles in theater is the understudy. Imagine having to learn all the lines, blocking, combat, and songs of several characters and then being responsible for ... Read More ›

A wiser man than I once said that Shakespeare is always about sex. Especially when it’s a play with multiple pairs of would-be lovers chasing each other through the forest in the ... Read More ›

Given that our show JUST opened and will be running until early April, it seems an odd time to talk about things coming to an end. Not if you’re a designer.

For a ... Read More ›

That is some of the best advice I have ever received from a director. We were working on the song at the end of the show and those of us playing instruments ... Read More ›

At the very first production meeting we had for As You Like It, Bill Brown stated that we would probably not be doing all the songs in the script, at which point ... Read More ›