{Diane (Antoinette LaVecchia) pours on the charm to seal a deal on behalf of her client in The Little Dog Laughed.}
So The Little Dog Laughed is finally up and running - and if our first four audiences are an indication - we are in for a wild, wild ride.  First night out was a benefit […]

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It’s still raining outside, but it is beginning to heat up inside the studio theater.

We moved downstairs last night for technical rehearsals for The Little Dog Laughed. There were all these cool hipsters pouring into the building as we came in (we started at 5:00 pm) and after nosing around a bit, I learned […]

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As Sometimes a Great Notion was readying for its first preview last Tuesday evening, we were also beginning rehearsals for Douglas Carter Beane’s racy and hilarious comedy, The Little Dog Laughed, which will close out the studio season.

Brik Berkes plays the rising movie star who (as his agent puts it), ‘has a slight recurring […]

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There is definitely a buzz charging through the building as Sometimes A Great Notion moves toward opening night. The cast moved onto the set on Saturday (4 days early???? Why doesn’t that happen on MY shows?) And this morning they began focusing the lights.

As you can see, the set is a jagged […]

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Yes. This is a real term. All LORT theaters are required to have a “young actor monitor” or a “child wrangler” present whenever children are in a show. I was the child wrangler for PILLOWMAN, FENCES and in JAW last year. Each time it was for one or two children, but now for CHRISTMAS CAROL […]

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First rehearsal for A Christmas Carol began this morning - with what seemed like 100 people assembled in the rehearsal hall. Wesley Mann (above) will play Scrooge. Wesley has also had an illustrious television career, appearing on the children’s shows That’s So Raven and Adventures in Wonderland.

Madison Wray (above in the pink) will […]

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An incredible group of actors will be joining us for 12th Night and Beard of Avon after the new year. Some are faces you’ll remember, others you’ll just be getting to know.

Above: the wonderful Ken Albers (Tarleton from last season’s Misalliance) who will be playing the theatrical producer extraordinaire, “Heminge” in Beard […]

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Just back from four days in New York, casting for The Beard of Avon and 12th Night.  Always a gas being in that city.  Though I was looking forward to a respite from our very rainy October, of course, the first two days in Manhattan provided torrential downpours.
When I go to NYC, my hotel of […]

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Friday night I headed across the river to go see Storm perform a song from Cabaret. The performance was for a taping of Live Wire, a local radio show that is taped in front of a live audience at the Aladdin Theater. The website for Live Wire describes the show as, “music, scintillating conversations, sketch […]

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A week and two days before we move onstage, we shot the publicity photos for Cabaret on the Mezzanine level. I always hate the photo shoot, because it eats time out of the rehearsal day - but Owen Carey, our photographer created some pretty cool looks.

Besides Wade McCollum and Storm Large, the show also […]

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New York actor Sean Cullen was in town early last year for PCS’s production of The Pillowman. Recently, Sean has moved on to even greener pastures, starring opposite George Clooney (as his brother) in the film Michael Clayton.

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