The daughter joined the cast of this show a few days ago. As Safie, she sings a folk song and indirectly teaches the creature about language and belonging.
She says she got the email while at a cast party after the final performance of Pippin. Pittsburg’s Prime Stage Theatre reimagines “Frankenstein”
Opening night. They’ve got magic to do!
That’s my daughter in the hoop. Pippin Oct 21-23 and 27-29.
I regularly teach A Raisin in the Sun but haven’t seen a live production in decades. Looking forward to it!
They’ve got magic to do. Carolyn is the Leading Player. (Pippin, Oct 21-29)
When you see a show alone often you can get really good seats. Idaspe @quantumtheatre
In June, 2002, I was blogging about… a female autistic scholars lament, Dr. Seuss, Orthodox Christianity and coding, Shakespeare, and weblogs after 9/11
In June, 2002, I was blogging about A female autistic scholar’s lament The origins of Horton Hears a Who A NatGeo article on the media-saturated life of Iowa college students The function of “er” in speech A Pravda article on parallels between Orthodox Christianity and computer programming Dr. Toast’s Amazing World of Toast (I really…
The Miller of the Dee; by James Baldwin; read by Dennis Jerz
I showed up at the recording studio for about two hours over the summer; the creative team had three or four different scripts for me to record. We had a grand time knocking them out, one after the other. But this particular script included the stage direction “he sings.” There were lyrics, but no score.…
Bryan A. Louiselle, 1966-2022 (musician, composer, orchestrator, musical director)
I was Mayor Shinn to Bryan’s Harold Hill in the only high school musical we did together. Yes he was an incredible musician and performer, but I was not musical and could barely sing on key, so I really wasn’t equipped, at the time, to realize just how talented he was. Once during a snowstorm…
Checking out of @frontporchtheatricals Grand Hotel. What an experience!
My brother had already planned to visit from Virginia to see Carolyn in the closing of Grand Hotel. We were already driving to the theater when we got word that Aunt Rona is visiting yet another cast member, and the final show is cancelled. So we stopped by Julie’s Bubble Tea and Smoothies for a…
When you hear your daughter the understudy is going on for a sold-out show. Live theater is unpredictable! @frontporchtheatricals
I just looked up the context for the bald guy dropping the chili.
I guess I was expecting something like Seinfeld with a studio audience guffawing or maybe a wobble-noise sound effect followed by sad trombones but oh my, that clip is a masterclass in storytelling and I am an awful person for laughing this hard.
August Wilson House officially opens in Pittsburgh’s Hill District
The August Wilson House officially opened over the weekend in a tearful and emotional ceremony, bringing over 500 residents, celebrities, officials, and local Black leaders to Pittsburgh’s Hill District. The Bedford Avenue childhood home of Hill District native August Wilson, one of the greatest playwrights in history, was unveiled as a new community arts center,…
Trust and friendship prove to be more valuable than wealth in the story of Damon and Pythias. Written by James Baldwin and read by Dennis Jerz.
One day earlier in the summer I visited the studio for a couple of hours and churned out three or four recordings. Here is one of them.
Shutting the Door on the Hard-Knock Life
In sync with the resurgence of labor activism nationwide, actors, dancers, stage managers, technicians and others have been questioning the nuts and bolts of their contracts — both the documents that detail their jobs and the wider assumptions about what they owe an audience. Can the theater, they ask, find a way to uphold them…
The daughter is working hard as a dancer and Flaemchen understudy. @frontporchtheatricals
The annual patriotic showing of #1776 has begun.
Carolyn performed as Ariel yesterday in the New Renaissance Theatre Company’s production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
Carolyn performed as Ariel yesterday in the New Renaissance Theatre Company’s production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. The performers use an “unrehearsed” technique, where they are reading from scrolls that contain their lines and the cues they have to listen for. She’s put together scrolls for several different tracks (each track typically consisting of a…
