Tag: theater
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Silent Sky‘s Closing Night
(Written September 16) I have a lot to say tonight, on two different subjects. It was our closing performance of Silent Sky, and yes, I do tend to gush at moments like these. Je ne regrette rien, Gentle Reader. Part 1: On Producing Silent Sky Producing a show this big was a first for me.…
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3 Impossible Questions
Given that it’s mentioned in the Fishnapped! program, I believe I can safely announce this now: A play I’m in the latter stages of writing, called 3 Impossible Questions, will be the fourth play in Olympia Family Theater‘s next mainstage season. It adapts fables from all over the Islamic world and introduces Western audiences to…
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Naked
More than anything, I’ve been concentrating on The Credeaux Canvas, a Keith Bunin dramedy I’m directing for Theater Artists Olympia in the Midnight Sun Performance Space. Producing this play has been a dream of mine since I first heard L.A. Theatre Works’ audio production four years ago…
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Ten Things I Know About Acting
Next month, I’ll help guide actors through the grinder of Olympia Audition League generals, a summer event that recruits actors for productions all over the South Sound. Ergo, this seems an appropriate time to offer a list of ten guidelines for less experienced actors. Feel free to disagree; actors are good at that. But this…
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#TBT
The night of first read-through on Laughing Stock at OLT, I decided to wear a shirt I owned in 1993. I dug this one out of a drawer and put it on…
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All In
When directing for community theatre, it’s often a given that one will wear numerous hats. That has certainly been the case with LAUGHING STOCK at Olympia Little Theatre. Of course, I don’t mean to give the impression that I’m doing it all alone. No, fourteen actors and four hardcore crew members have been busting their…
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A Straight Meditation on National Themes, Part 1
Unless you’re an actor, it’s probable you know nothing about Tony Kushner’s landmark 1993 play Angels in America…
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Happier Trails
Yes, it has been a pleasure being a theater critic. Sometimes. On the other hand, it’s also been a pain in the keister…
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Kitchen Confidential
This is the week or two during which a show grows up. If all goes as it should, it’ll reach voting age around the time we hit tech week, at which time the director and crew must turn their nearly-full attention to matters of lighting, costume, sound, and set dressing. It’s an awkward week, when…
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Another Juror #3
I thought, “Someday I’d love to play that role myself.” I kinda knew it’d happen, someday anyway, and that premonition both excited and terrified me…