Bit by bit “Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.” — Knute Rockne How many hours each week are you working on your dream? I don’t ask how many hours you temp or wait tables; I am not asking…
Once upon a time, when I was a little baby director, an artistic director asked me to name five playwrights whose work I particularly admired. Because I wasn’t prepared, and probably also because I was a little baby director, my mind went blanker than Peter Brook’s empty space and I stammered, “Uhhhh …. well …….
You probably think this post is about you, don’t you? Don’t stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Last Thursday and Friday, I was casting a show that I’ll direct in June. The artistic director of the theatre and I were working with two capable, consummately professional casting directors. At the initial casting session,…
“There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept.” – Ansel Adams “”The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself.” – Edward Steichen They’re your calling card, actors. They are your ticket through the door. Very often, they are the difference between being seen and…
[This post originally appeared on www.2amtheatre.com, which is a very cool place to appear.] Collation line. Apparatus. Strip of terror. Whatever you call it, it’s that somewhat inscrutable line or two of apparently Enigma code between the text and the annotations, particularly in a modern edition of, say, Shakespeare. It might seem irrelevant or irretrievably…
[This post originally appeared on www.2amtheatre.com, which is a very cool place to appear.] Last week, I coached an actor who had a big audition this past weekend. It was of the ‘bring two contrasting pieces’ variety. She came to me a little later in her process than I would have liked: I didn’t get…