This one goes to eleven: Victoria Bidewell, written 1 day ago, Last week I dealt with my post-play post-partum by going to see somebody else’s work: In the Boom Boom Room, David Rabe’s 1970s risk-taking opus about the wide-eyed, determined young go-go dancer Chrissy. In this roll Victoria owns t...

The river runs dry, written 1 week ago,

Xander Hough is a young musician trying to write musical theatre along with other composing, orchestration and performing.

Medea in Manitoba, written 1 week ago,

The last three days have been spent mostly on The..., written 1 day ago, The last three days have been spent mostly on The Granduncle Quadrilogy: Tales from the Land of Ice at The Brick, which I?ve been lighting, and has turned out to be harder to make look right than I figured. The set is all whi...

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White Christmas hopes to rake in the green, written 1 day ago, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas has opened on Broadway for this year’s season. At a time when shows are closing right and left, this is a nice change in the right direction. I mean, I guess it’s not a surprise that lots of people w...

In which the author gets a spread in Classical Singer..., written 5 days ago, ... while he's away from singing.  Irony.  Well, here's the pic, in an article about the San Francisco Lyric Opera company, with which I did Aida this year (pictured).  (Click on the picture for a larger versio...

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The electric snowcone, written 4 weeks ago, Burning Man was brutal this year. We had duststorms every day. More like sand storms. In one of them, the whiteout was so thick that you needed a GPS to navigate through it. You couldn't even see an inch in front of your face. Some people wandered lost fo...

Tonight: Elektra at the NY Phil, written 17 hours ago, Tonight: It's Strauss' Elektra in concert at the New York Phil. Sally says, "It's the greatest opera ever written." Well, I'm not so sure about that, but it's definitely fierce. Lorin Maazel, Conductor - Deborah Polaski, Soprano ...

i love it when, written 1 day ago, they ask for all of Zerbinetta for my 2nd piece. Hurrah.

What an unusual venue!!, written 1 month ago, Over the seventeen plus years that we have been performing Murder Mystery events we have work in some brilliant location in the UK and Europe, but last week was one of those to remember. The venue was called the Roost in NE London it is normally used as ...

Sound familiar?, written 1 week ago, From Dudley Cocke's essay "Art in a Democracy," published in 2002. Cocke is the Artistic Director of nationally-known community--based Roadside Theatre in Whitesburg KY: "Beginning with the Reagan administration through the Clinton presidency, fed...

Confessions of a MET insider, written 4 days ago, This was sent to me today, and I thought that it would be appropriate to post here. Here is some of the musical backstage drama that occurred last week as Daniel Barenboim was preparing his MET opera debut conducting Tristan und Isolde. "His ap...

Puppets in Melbourne discusses the Australian puppetry industry, as well as offers information and tutorials on how to make your own puppets. There's also an online store, where you can buy customised handmade puppets.

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An Acting Tradition by Cathy and David Ardrey, written 13 hours ago,     A Christmas Carol has always had a special place in our hearts.  Years before we even thought of acting in it, we collected editions of the book, versions of the movie, and went to see several productions of it at Actor’...