Category: drama
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“A Tad of Trouble” – Less than two months away!
Below is the first flyer for our new production of our old musical play, “A Tad of Trouble.” This one keeps the original artwork done by Sophie Shin back in 2009. The picture is of the mute boy, Tad, being symbolically muted by the crooked traveling salesman, Obediah. It’s a really fun story with some…
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A Little Christian-Themed Drama
I was asked to write a few dramatic sketches for some meetings we were having this month, and I had a lot of fun putting together some Christian-themed drama – some dramatic – some down-right silly like “Birds on a Wire” which had two birds watching humans fret about all the little details of their…
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On the First Day of March
Back in September 2008, I was beginning to undertake writing my second play — this one which would incorporate some music. “A Tad of Trouble” was born and performed for the first time in May 2009. Six years later I am re-staging it with lots new music and an updated script. It’s a fun story…
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Two Scripts – Two Medals at the SEA Forensics Competition
Last fall, my frantic colleague came to me to ask a favor: would I be really to write a dramatic duet for two of my young actors who also perform on the school’s forensic team. I highlighted this in my post called Speed Publishing – where within a span of 24 hours I had written,…
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Jumping Deep into My Next Musical
I’m producing and directing an original musical entitled “A Tad of Trouble.” I originally wrote the book and music to it back in 2008 with a group of students. We produced it in 2009 to very favorable reviews. For the past couple of years, I’ve been wanting to re-do it. To make it better. To…
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“A Pinch of Fate” – My Play Opens in Sydney, Australia Today
I’m very excited (and very sad because I can’t be there) to have my short play, “A Pinch of Fate, A Shot of Destiny”, opening tonight as part of the Short & Sweet Theatre Festival in Sydney, Australia. It will be performed five times from Feb 4-8 at The Fusebox, Factory Theatre, Marrickville. The piece…
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The Biggest Mistake of Young Actors
The biggest (or one of the biggest) mistakes of young actors is not spending nearly enough time inside the script. I’ve directed a lot of young actors over the past eight years, and it never ceases to happen that as a show nears performance, I hear one actor say, “Oh, so that’s what that means!”…
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Theatre Production – So Many Hats
I’m back into full-swing theatre mode. So much of my day revolves around theatre and drama, and, of course, I love all of it. But it is a telling sign of what’s to come. Here’s a quick run-down of all theatre related items I did today. A colleague came to talk to me about a…
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Casting: The Worst Job in Theatre
I direct plays at the high school level. Why I haven’t “hired” someone to do my casting for me I’ll never know. In this type of setting, there’s nothing worse. Pitting my own regular actor against my own regular actor. When we do large second semester productions, it’s like putting family member against family member…
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Meeting up with the Footstool Players
My drama group, The RLT Players, had an awesome afternoon yesterday meeting up with the group which provided the inspiration to start our own group. It was wonderful beyond belief to have these veteran actors and all around great people willing to spend a couple hours to talk about about acting and other aspects of…
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