Friday, August 24th, 2007
Writing in the Dallas Morning News earlier this week, Lawson Taitte featured four Dallas area theatre companies that are producing in spaces that are or were once churches.
I found his lead particularly intriguing: “Churches and theaters have been at odds for most of the last 500 years.”
While there are probably countless examples of efforts by [...]
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
Having begun to blog on behalf of the American Theatre Wing, it dawns upon me that I should say a few words about what I might be weighing in upon through this format. To do that, it bears mentioning the mission of ATW, since so many people think of us as being solely and [...]
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Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
Having started my career as a publicist, I have gotten to know the majority of the major theatre critics over the past 25 years or so – some casually, others more closely (regional theatre publicists sometimes have an advantage over their NYC counterparts, since the regional reps function as hosts for out of town visitors, [...]
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Monday, August 20th, 2007
Last month, I had occasion to visit Stagedoor Manor, the performing arts camp chronicled fictionally in the film Camp and truthfully in the film Stagedoor. Having seen the former film, I honestly did not know what to expect, but after spending all of one hour touring the campus, I was reminded not of the alternately [...]
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Monday, August 20th, 2007
Anthony Rapp
From Rent on Broadway.
Stage and film actor Anthony Rapp, upon his return to the long-running show Rent, talks about working with the show’s composer Jonathan Larson; the longevity and impact of Rent; getting his first professional audition for Mr. Scrooge at age 8; previewing The Little Prince and The Aviator on Broadway; meeting and [...]
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