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When I first signed on to be the Assistant Director for Death of A Streetcar Named Virginia Woolf: A Parody, the script hadn’t been given to me as it was still in the ... Read More ›

Tim Sniffen

It was the end of another long day at The Second City, and we had just finished scripting all the jokes the actors would pretend to ‘improvise’ the following night. ... Read More ›

We’ll call this chapter “The Need for Cake, a.k.a. Arcadia Tech and Preview Weeks.” There is something besides the desire to put on the best theatrical production you possibly can that brings ... Read More ›

The actors of Arcadia discuss their intimate and personal connections to the production and to their characters.

Due to my extensive background in mathematics it is difficult for me to pay much attention to anything ... Read More ›

Playwright Tom Stoppard has remarked that, in putting a play together, “what happens is you pull in all sorts of ideas which previously had been quite disconnected, which had been floating around in one’s mind for years…As ... Read More ›

Playwright Tom Stoppard has remarked that, in putting a play together, “what happens is you pull in all sorts of ideas which previously had been quite disconnected, which had been floating around in one’s mind for years…As ... Read More ›

Playwright Tom Stoppard has remarked that, in putting a play together, “what happens is you pull in all sorts of ideas which previously had been quite disconnected, which had been floating around in one’s mind for years…As ... Read More ›

Playwright Tom Stoppard has remarked that, in putting a play together, “what happens is you pull in all sorts of ideas which previously had been quite disconnected, which had been floating around in one’s mind for years…As ... Read More ›

THE REAL THING at Writers Theatre in 2011

In the wake of the worldwide success of his 1982 hit The Real Thing—which WT revived in 2011—Stoppard was once again free to explore his many different passions.

Over the next ten ... Read More ›

My brain has short circuited tonight.  But beneath the muddled exhaustion of my poor brain is the undercurrent of exhilaration.

I am thrilled, proud, and profoundly fortunate to be at a table surrounded ... Read More ›