Category: Theater
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THE OPERATING ROOM
I had surgery a couple of weeks ago, and also an epic self tape audition due 2 days later.. I decided to choose my time wisely while waiting in a room with probably a dozen people behind thin curtains on hospital beds, and use the um, opportunity, to memorize 3 scenes and a new song…
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THE SOUNDS OF SILENCE
ACTORS EQUITY RESPONSE TO THE LARGEST SLAUGHTER OF JEWS SINCE THE HOLOCAUST: Silence. Actors Equity has been quite busy getting quite political in the last few years.. in many ways as a diversion to dwindling jobs for members and the union’s lack of a coherent strategy in dealing with Covid, the proliferation of non union…
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SHELL GAME
After many articles sounding the alarm in the press about regional theaters closing, cutbacks to staff and the overall dire financial state of the regions, a pod of artistic directors from across the country have gotten together to form a group to petition lawmakers to save theater. Again. They’re asking for more money from the…
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The Year of Magacal Thinking
The opinion pieces and articles in major newspapers are coming fast and furious now… HOW CAN WE SAVE THEATER? In many ways, I’d wager most of the authors of these thangs, and theater makers didn’t have much foresight, or pragmatism during the pandemic to ask that question… and now, with regional theaters… and Broadway shows..…
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How It’s Going, How’s It Going?
How it started: How it’s going… https://variety.com/2023/legit/news/mark-taper-forum-cancels-productions-season-center-theatre-group-cutbacks-1235646230/ How it started… How it’s going… https://www.broadwaynews.com/several-tony-nominated-productions-suffer-lowest-grossing-week-as-box-office-slides/ How it’s gone… How it’s gone… https://www.oregonlive.com/entertainment/2023/06/oregon-shakespeare-festival-names-interim-executive-director-says-it-needs-73-million-to-finish-season.html How it went… “Judi Davidson said that she thought the Center Theater Group had become a bit too bland over the years. “It’s great that they want to be adventurous again,” she said. “I…
Robert DuSold 