What Crosses My Mind

  • A Restart of Stagework

    A few months ago I took on a new project. Since I retired from teaching I have felt a definite void with not working on a theater stage. It always seemed I would land something somewhere but I really wasn’t sure. I’ve been through a lot over the past few years, and the one common…

  • I Stood On A Stage

    It had been awhile me, feeling the lights on me the heat, the passion, the beauty of illusory in my grasp. I watched the motions come to life, to imagine where we all are, standing, in the moment. Delivering our truths, as if we were there, the artist telling us about a small town, an…

  • A Theatre Life

    Theatre is a life. We all reach different levels. Some would reference a stage and characters and roles. Then step away and find the same in our own quiet lives. We walk across a stage every day, in any action we choose. It only seems right then that we all want to play out our…

  • Why Shakespeare?

    Because acting is life. With every good playwright we find the realities we endure being played out on stage to help us understand. Without knowing the consequence, the moment needs to find reason, and if done properly, can teach all of us something. That is the beauty of theater. That is the marvel of Shakespeare.…

  • She Belonged On Stage

    At least those were her words when Becky returned to an audition after years of being away. I’ve changed her name and productions to protect her anonymity. I was first introduced to Becky in a production of Mary Poppins when she played a significant role. She was someone who came out of nowhere, they usually…

  • Playing Illusions

    One of the treasures of putting a script to stage is the opportunity to play reality and leave the audience in wonder. Many playwrights spend a lifetime writing scenes that will depict society in its true and sometimes disturbing form. Arthur Miller did just that with the majority of his scripts, my favorite being The…

  • A Seriously Bad Audition ☺️

    I spoke of the moments when an audition can make or break a student’s opportunity to secure a role on stage. I suggested that students will need to be focused and do their best to perform at a high level in the audition that can characterize their effort on stage. That rule holds true for…

  • Planting Seeds in a Theater

    As a theatre teacher I have always been fortunate to work with such talent that would often leave me humbled by the opportunities I experienced. I am of the school of finding yourself on stage. On countless occasion I would hear myself tell my students it matters little the set you have behind you, it…

  • Stable Motive

    What, tell me, what! What does it mean to find separation to compartmentalize, to be able to suggest to yourself its your forte and nothing else no excuses no redos no you cannot feel bad there are no allowances for human error. Life suggests we disconnect when our needs are met, the task at hand…

  • … and then Carole King Stepped onto the Stage …

    I am truly moved to weep watching Broadway’s talent dance across the stage in that venue of endearment where everything they work for becomes showcased in a showcase. I don’t have tears of sadness they really are filled with joy Seeing such delightful real lives emote beauty, grace & elegance at the highest level of…