( Spoilers ahoy! )

After lots of discussion with folks here, folks on twitter, and folks in actual real life, I did it! I wrote something that I hope will help people who come to read Harry Potter and the Cursed Child who don't make a habit of reading plays. I really hated the thought that fans were making fun of other fans who weren't used to the weird work of play ( Read more... )

So in the wee hours of Sunday morning, I was at GeekyCon in Orlando, surrounded by Harry Potter fans, and finally getting my hands on the published rehearsal script of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. As I waited in line, however, I heard the dude in the IMPECCABLE Remus Lupin cosplay ask his Tonks, "So, is it going to look like... Shakespeare ( Read more... )

So on Thursday of this week, I'm going back to GeekyCon, and that has sent me down the proverbial rabbit hole of nostalgia. I was on an idle quest through my facebook, then my flickr accounts, trying to find some pictures of the release party for DH that my friends and I took part in at Haverford. The release of Cursed Child's text is happening on ( Read more... )

So yesterday, poor_choices posted some Arcadia fic on tumblr, and because she wants to destroy me, texted me and left me raging at her in capslock over how heartbreakingly good it was. What a jerk ( Read more... )

I feel like I'm beating my head against the wall, trying to learn the music for Labor. What I really need is a music coach- someone who can sit with me at a piano and teach me all the weird measures and guide me through the songs until I get a better grasp on them. This person should ideally want to be paid in cookies. Tucker's music is just ( Read more... )

So last week, I ran away to New York and invaded loony_moony's apartment and together, we fangirled MIGHTILY over the two productions over from the Globe- Richard III and Twelfth Night- WHY YES, THE SAME TWELFT NIGHT THAT CHANGED MY LIFE TEN YEARS AGO, HELLO, HOW ARE YOU.

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I was more than a little terrified that the production wouldn't hold up- there were a ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I took a theatre pilgrimmage. I got up at 5am and was on a bus heading out of DC at 7:30am, driving up to New York City. I landed in NYC shortly before noon, had lunch, dropped by the Drama Book Shop and lusted over several books that I couldn't afford, saw the matinee of Matilda, ate dinner, and got BACK on the bus to be back in DC by ( Read more... )

Over the past two months, I've renewed my love affair with Mary Zimmerman. It's not that it ever truly went away, of course, but there's nothing like actually getting to see a highly visual director's work to make your heart sing her praises again.

This time, it was a production of her Metamorphoses, easily her most recognizable work- and MZ came ( Read more... )

Does anyone else love the way that "hymn" is spelled? That combination of the m and the n at the end of the word (and with a y as a vowel- swoon!) is just so lovely to me.

ANYWAY.

The excitement everyone has over the discovery that yes- it was Richard III in the car park with the lead pipe is just so charming to me. :) I've never been a big ( Read more... )