Conversations from the Classroom: A Teacher’s Guide to Directing Musicals Spring has arrived, and with it, the season of the spring musical. At this very moment, school auditoriums all over the country are filled with students who are singing, dancing, and acting their hearts out. Conversations from the Classroom: A Teacher’s Guide to Directing Musicals
A Backstage Ballet...An Actor and his Dressers While serial murder is not often considered fertile ground for comedy, when one actor plays all eight of a play’s ill-fated characters, as in A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder (which plays the Ahmanson Theatre through May 1, 2016), the potential for comedic virtuosity becomes endless. But what are the logistics of playing ei... A Backstage Ballet...An Actor and his Dressers
Creating Roads: a Conversation with Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks Suzan-Lori Parks has been named one of Time magazine’s “100 Innovators for the Next New Wave.” She is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and a MacArthur “Genius” award recipient. Her plays, screenplays, poems, and songs have garnered countless awards from organizations across the United States. Her most recent play, Father Comes Hom... Creating Roads: a Conversation with Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks
Samuel Beckett in Prison It was December 1974—one of those monochromatic winter days in Paris when the sky, the streets, and the river all seem to turn the same shade of gray. Samuel Beckett in Prison
