I directed a play for Elizabeth (a lil' 10-minute thing) and it went up today.  The venue was quite nice, in a library not too far from my place.  Vaulted ceilings and decent acoustics (for singing ( Read more... )

Lots going on right now!  A little too much actually--

• A project for Tim's friend who is a playwright
• Taxes (MUST force myself to get up early tomorrow to go to the tax prep's office, they've been ready to go for weeks)
• Must take NYC tour guide test so I can become a tour guide for Amada
• Have to get registered as a federal vendor (a huge pain in the ( Read more... )

I am a member of TRU (Theater Resources United), a group for theater producers and other professionals.  I haven't taken much advantage of the classes and workshops they offer, but I have sat in on their annual combined auditions several times, once or twice with Duncan and once for Julie.  That's the main draw for me, those auditions, and why I ( Read more... )

Note--try to buy tickets early as Dave is expecting them to sell out.  Currently the most sold is tomorrow night's 8pm showing--there are more tickets for tonight's and the late Friday show.The show just keeps getting better and better. We moved into the space Monday night--the actual floor on the stage takes a little getting used to. It is a ( Read more... )

So I'm in Duncan's play, Sweeter Dreams, playing Roberta leFay, the film critic. We started off-book rehearsals last week which terrified me going in--Roberta has a CRAZY-long monologue that kicks off the play, 2+ pages. As well as 4 or so other monologues ranging from 1.5 pages to a paragraph. I have two scenes with dialogue but most of my ( Read more... )

TONY reviews Wildhorn's Wonderland in Carollian verse:

’Tis Wildhorn, and the hapless cast
Does direly gambol on the stage.
All flimsy is the plot half-assed,
Not right for any age.

Last night the current President of Sweet Briar appeared at a cocktail party hosted by an alum in her Park Avenue apartment. All NYC-area alums were invited so I showed up to schmooze a bit--Christian told me that the SBC President is really into theater, and I figured it wouldn't hurt to meet her and make a good impression, all for Project Thyme. ( Read more... )

So Day 3 I had a full-ish day planned. I was going to a matinee at the Abbey Theatre at 2:00, but before that I was going to swing by Trinity College to see the Book of Kells and then either right before or after the Abbey, was going to try again to do the Guinness tour. It did not happen exactly like this, however ;) I left the hostel and found ( Read more... )

Yesterday Anya and I made pumpkin pie ice cream--we have TONS left over, if anyone wants some please feel free to stop by and take some home. I made it with the old-fashioned recipe which uses eggs so it's really, really rich--we both could barely finish our bowls. As much as I love summer, I love autumn, and after the heat this summer, I am very ( Read more... )

The Public is doing The Merchant of Venice and The Winter's Tale in rep this summer! I don't think I've ever seen Merchant on stage--yay! So excited to see me some free quality Shakespeare! I love summer in the city! As a follow up to the Lovestreet/Julie drammer--apparently Lori had also heard from Catherine a while ago that Julie wanted to fire ( Read more... )