“Proper theater audience etiquette refers to the expected behavior and manners that audience members should exhibit when attending a live performance. Adhering to these guidelines ensures a respectful and enjoyable experience for everyone involved, including the performers and fellow audience members.”
Read More“Too often we take for granted the fact that we share the stage, the story, the wonder, and the present moment together, as a unit. Call it what you will: cast, crew, team, friends, or even perhaps family. But if anything must be said about our experiences on stage, it is that we aren’t nearly as successful or as good as we all aspire to be without each of us backing one another.”
Read More“The word “enough” is becoming commonplace. You did not do enough. You did not give enough to your scene partners. You did not meet the director’s expectations. You could go on and on about how you were not enough. Wracked with worry and guilt, you worry about your ability to play and depend more on the thoughts of others. You are not alone. It has a simple name that many have also felt: actor guilt.”
Read MoreFacing accusations of inappropriate relationships with her teenage fans and grooming, Colleen Ballinger decided that the best course of action was to respond with a ditty on a ukulele explaining that she was actually the victim of a “toxic gossip train.”
Read More"I’ve just left a dinner with a well-known casting director. He had asked me to join him to talk about the potential he sees in me and learn about my career goals. I thought that’s all we would talk about. I was wrong."
Read More“It is OK to take up the space you require. The world needs you to take up the space you require.”
Read More“St. Martin could have shown empathy. That’s what good spokespeople are supposed to do. Instead, if anything, she was defiant over the current business model that works for the rich and doesn’t work for everyone else.”
Read More“Many of us in the industry have always looked at the theatre as a safe place, a place where you can truly be yourself bound only by the limits of your imagination. That is why it is so extra heartbreaking when we uncover stories of abuse and mismanagement and toxicity in our theaters, because, for a whole bunch of us, the stage is a lifeline.”
Read More“While there are worse ways to spend 17 minutes and 40 seconds, the best I can say about her five-track exercise in self-pity is that it exists.”
Read More“A list of references made to everyone’s favorite Halloween cult musical.”
Read More“Would the show have worked on Broadway? The question was inescapable as I exited the Raimund and looked at the marquee shining bright, envisioning what would have happened if I was looking at it outside of the Broadhurst Theater in New York. In this writer’s opinion, I don’t think it would have.”
Read More“I recently caught a song, on a cast recording that I rarely listen to, that seemed to be about, whether the writers knew it or not, polyamory. Musicals were teaching me about ethical non-monogamy before I had had much of a chance to even be monogamous.”
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