Lately I’ve been having great difficulty figuring out what my motivation is. I’ve never cared much about a character’s back story, knowing what he had for breakfast and all that, but I do like to make sense of lines and blocking because I can’t convey something I don’t understand myself. Right now, though, I’m confused. […]
As I was telling a friend recently, arts administration is a young person’s game. I’ve worked harder in the last several weeks than at any time in recent memory. In fact, the last time my nose was pressed this hard to the grindstone, I was artistic director of a small touring theater company in the […]
Sitting outside a television studio this morning waiting for the producer to cue our playwright-in-residence for her interview, I crept up on one of my favorite soapboxes. (No, not actor pay.) The playwright was talking about an artist colony where she goes to write plays. I made, but didn’t press, the point that theater producers […]
