Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, Minecraft Style
In April 2000, I was blogging about HTML frames, the future of reading, grammar, Kairos, and Hypercard
In April 2000, I was blogging about… HTML frames (who remembers how much they sucked?) The sorry state of web design (AskTog) The future of reading “Rules grammar change: English traditional replace to be new syntax with” (The Onion) Journalism students who don’t read or watch journalism A design critique I published in the innovative…
Loved part 2 of Romeo and Juliet @thepublicpgh #pptplaytime (Next week: Tartuffe)
“Oh, that I were a glove upon that hand. That I might touch that cheek!” #pptplaytime Romeo and Juliet @thepublicpgh
Toasting Shakespeare at the Bard’s Birthday Bash
Organized by Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Park.
Lysistrata live.
Introduction to The Cherry Orchard
The Nightingale (WAOB Audio Theatre)
I haven’t done any audio theatre recordings in a while (thanks, coronavirus) and I miss it. Here’s my interpretation (recorded some time ago) of Hans Christian Anderson’s “The Nightingale.” The nightingale is considered the most beautiful thing in the kingdom… until a mechanical nightingale wins over the citizens, and the true nightingale is banished. But…
Introduction to The Skin of Our Teeth (optimistic, absurdist metatheater; Thornton Wilder, 1942)
Rhinoceros in Love (World Drama — China, 1999)
The blurb for a 2011 English version of the 1999 Chinese play I’m teaching this week: China’s most popular and provocative drama. A modern story of love and obsession, Rhinoceros in Love tells the story of a rhinoceros-keeper who develops a dangerous romantic fascination with the woman of his dreams: the uncompromising, unobtainable Mingming. Hear…
Oedipus Tyrannos (Oedipus Rex) — Brief Introduction
My first lecture screencasts for my newly-online class. (Thanks, COVID-19.)
Pittsburgh in the Round review of The Outsiders
“It’s due to a slew of rich, physically and emotionally raw performances from this steadfast ensemble that Hinton’s timeless characters are realized as the heroes, albeit tragic ones, that they’re meant to be…. As the youngest of the Greasers, Ponyboy has a unique dynamic with the rest of the gang. He’s doted on to varying…
The Outsiders — four sold-out weekday matinees; four more performances this weekend
So proud of my talented, hard-working daughter!
This is what audience members are saying about Prime Stage Theatre’s production of The Outsiders
Prime Stage’s THE OUTSIDERS Stays Golden at the New Hazlett
Cherry, the upper-class go-between spanning the worlds of the greasers and the Socs, is played by Carolyn Jerz, last seen at the New Hazlett as the leading lady/gentleman of Prime Stage’s Twelfth Night. Jerz radiates the kind of intense, poised charisma we associate with old Hollywood, and she imbues the sensitive, ambivalent Cherry with so much…
Outsiders. Four sold out matinees this coming week. — Prime Stage
Four sold out matinees this coming week. Haven’t seen it yet myself. (Nabbed photo from phgintheround’s Instagram.)
Daughter Carolyn plays Cherry in Prime Stage’s production of The Outsiders (Mar 6-15)
My daughter Carolyn plays Cherry in Prime Stage’s production of The Outsiders (Mar 6-15). Because Prime Stage works to incorporate the curriculum of local schools, each production contains a student matinee performance, allowing the students to connect more deeply to their school readings through theater. Prime Stage also seeks to bring each work of literature…
The Rivals at Seton Hill University
Carolyn’s Theater Bio for Prime Stage’s The Outsiders (Mar 6-15)
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