To move about the world as a functional adult, eventually one must eventually learn how to say no. One decides what kind of person one is by first understanding what kind of person one is not.
“Am I meant to get an MBA and rise through the ranks of corporate America?” “No, I’m going […]
I attended the opening night performance of About Face Theatre’s “The Little Dog Laughed” earlier this week. The playwright, Douglas Carter Beane, was in the audience and spoke during the post-show reception. He had mentioned to a colleague that he had been invited to Chicago for the opening and was wondering if he […]
There are faces behind these masks.
Each day we explode forward, onto the stage with the power of a freight train.
We move forward and look into your eyes.
We taunt, we excite, we mesmerize.
We hold that gaze for seconds, and then we disappear into the boxes.
Next time I appear, you can’t see me.
He is sitting, […]
There’s that point in the process when you stop judging your character and you just play. It’s how actors play Nazis or domestic violence victims or, in my case, the obnoxious guy who keeps interrupting the show. There’s always judgment at first: too wordy, too geeky, too “know-it-all who got beat up as a […]