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Monthly Archives: January 2010
Arena Stage in Washington, D.C.
When I first arrived in Washington, D.C. many years ago as fresh-faced lad freshly graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, one of the first places I was able to feed myself was at Arena Stage reading scripts at $10 a … Continue reading
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Tagged arena, ciulei, fichandler, liviu, lucian, performance, pintille, stage, washington, zelda
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The Actress Dead Zone
If you’re an actress, you already know you face a discriminatory dead zone between the ages of 30-60 years old in the movies and on television. Some actresses, who truly care about their craft, turn to the live stage to … Continue reading
The Lie of the Lie: Faking the Will Rogers Follies
When I was working on the Broadway production of — “The Will Rogers Follies” — I was contacted by a friend of mine who was teaching at a major East Coast university.
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Tagged choreographer, credit, director, fake, follies, rogers, school, university, will
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Always Offend
The transitive definition of the verb “offend” is — “to cause to feel upset, annoyed ore resentful” — and I argue today that when you offend an audience in even the smallest way, you have achieved an important human condition … Continue reading
