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TV. That’s like, Art perfected!
This is a theater generation raised on movies as the ideal. Movies and theater are no longer considered different mediums of communication, but just different genres of production, with movies being the obviously superior model, restricted only by production difficulties. … Continue reading
Contemporary Sentiments Clash with Poetic Language in Strangeloop’s Midsummer Night’s Dream
Strangeloop closes its fifth season with a valiant attempt to bring the visceral passion of Shakespeare’s most popular comedy into the faces and hearts of modern audiences. Director Holly Robison sets A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 1940’s America, and more importantly … Continue reading
On the Twelfth Night!
I get to do Twelfth Night twice in one year! I’m super-plus-excite to finally announce the cast for HD Productions’ Twelfth Night in Milwaukee: ORSINO: Stuart Mott VIOLA: Hayley Cotton FESTE: Tawnie Thompson Sir TOBY BELCH: Shanna Theiste MARIA: Sasha … Continue reading
Lose No Labour
Much like the quality of mercy, a labor of love is not strained. Think about it. Anyway, I’m pleased as non-alcoholic punch (which is to say, entirely too pleased with myself) to finally announce the cast of Love’s Labour’s Lost. … Continue reading
Motivation Is More Absent Than Veiled in 20%’s Anton in Show Business
Like Beckett or Pinter, Chekhov is a tricky business. Characters do not pursue their desires so overtly as in most musicals, nor do they describe their wants as articulately as in most Shakespearean plays; nor even, for that matter, are Chekhov … Continue reading
Double Down on Twelfth Night
I’m doing my second Twelfth Night of the year! If you’re gonna be up Milwaukee-way in mid June through early August, give this’n a look-see: You can sign up for auditions right here. Play on!
Batter Me Bathory
We just finished the second (and presumably final) private reading of Countess Bathory. Some useful advice was given regarding drive and clarity, but I think what I was happiest to hear was that Bathory needs a closer relationship with her … Continue reading
Mercutio’s Autograph
I think I’m too vain to have ever been starstruck. I haven’t seen very many famous people, and I don’t suppose I’ve ever really tried to, but I’m pretty sure my intellectual vanity would have prevented me from freaking … Continue reading