“About a year ago, I decided to take a break from acting. I decided to focus on my job and on other important priorities in my life. I didn’t realize that the time I spent away from acting would cause me to be more critical and aware of what my next steps would be. To be honest, I’m not sure what they are.”
Read More“My anger stems from the fact that Sia knowingly and deliberately packaged an offensive, reductive, and infantilizing appropriation of our neurology as self-aggrandizing inspiration porn for consumption by non-autistics.”
Read More“Accessibility matters and it isn’t hard. It just takes a little bit of effort, and I promise that effort will mean so much to those of us who benefit from it.”
Read More“Arts workers have nowhere to go. We are not merely out of work, we are prevented from work. To have the promise of one’s entire life ripped away over and over again, becoming more agonizing with each pull, isn’t just infuriating, it’s exasperating.”
Read More“I believe it to be extremely dangerous to accuse people who do not vote for a specific political party of not supporting theatre.”
Read More“Today let's look at an original Stephen King musical. Wait! What’s that? Stephen King wrote a musical? Yes. Yes, he did and with John Mellencamp, no less. It took them close to a dozen years to get it on stage; the end result is entitled The Ghost Brothers of Darkland County. “
Read MoreLately, it’s become a theme to change the time-period and/or setting of a popular play/musical. For example, I once saw a post-apocalyptic version of Leonard Bernstein’s Peter Pan, and believe it or not it worked! I personally enjoy seeing popular shows re-imagined, but I believe that there is a time and place to make that dramatic decision.
Read MoreIt is a reality of our world that bringing creative work to life costs money. The training, whether private lessons or group classes or university studies, can become prohibitively expensive. What do we do when we, as individuals, simply don’t have the money?
Read More“If you haven’t been in, or been involved with Seussical at least three times, then I’m sorry to inform you that you’re probably not the most fulfilled theatre person you could be, and your childhood probably greatly suffered. Here’s a comprehensive list of the ways Seussical has single-handedly bettered humankind.”
Read More“If you’re feeling like making art does not matter in the grand scheme of things, please, please, don’t give up on it. Keep making art. This is your gift, your passion and it needs to be shared, heard and seen.”
Read More“With the emergence and likely continued existence of virtual streamed performances, it’s obviously reasonable for the audience to expect the same quality performance they would receive if there were sitting in the theatre. This means every performer needs to be off-book if the type of performance calls for it.”
Read More“As said in Carousel, “At the end of the storm is a golden sky And the sweet silver song of a lark.” The end of the storm will come, and we will rejoice when it does. In the meantime, here are some ways to fill that emotional void while the ghost light is still on.”
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