Green Day on the stage
That is a link to a New York Times article, about making a theatrical stage version of their album American Idiot.
Berkeley Rep is to announce Monday that the new work, also titled “American Idiot,” will have its premiere as the first production of the theater’s 2009-10 season, and run from Sept. [...]
Lately I have begun working on my summer job. That entails working out the classes and locations for the curriculum of a summer theatre program. the students are broken down into groups and I rotate the groups thru the four different teachers, making sure that they get each group the same number of times and [...]
HAMLET (FACEBOOK NEWS FEED EDITION). Written by Sarah Schmelling.
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After many negotiations with lawyers, we are finally ready to being work on our Aerial Dance performance. I am excited by this project. We are bringing in a top flying effect company to collaborate with.
I’ll have pix and more info soon. OR maybe in like two weeks now that I think about it.
It is said that Shakespeare uses the character of the fool to say underlying truths that cannot be said. In King Lear, the Fool says things to the King that he doesn’t let anyone else say. That is a simplification of a lot of Shakespearean scholarship. But I am thinking of that a lot when [...]
I just spent the week in Cincinnati at the USITT conference. It covers design and technolgy for the theatre. The whole family came with which was great to see them. I would be able to have dinner with them and sometimes be able to do bedtime as well.
The conference on the whole was fruitful. [...]
We had a fun day today. Friends came over for brunch, Liam opened presents, Arden and Liam rode around on my back, what more could you want?
All in all a very good day. Made me not want the kids to get any older.
Saw this via the Internet:
the lawsuits to overturn Proposition 8 have forced the true powers behind the Proposition 8 battle to step into the uncomfortable limelight, which is something Steve Smith, the “No on 8″ campaign’s hired hand, never effectively made happen. This time bishops, ministers, and their lawyers can’t hide behind a slick political [...]
