It’s less than two weeks since my last post, yet once again I see the theme emerging of “crap, things are happening too quickly for me to write anything insightful or perceptive about them, so I’ll just have to say
The Strange Reality
Things are happening at a velocity that does not seem real. I recently upgraded to a Google Phone and so started using their Calendar app to track my appointments – and it has coincided with a period where every day
Lifeplans
Much Ado had a pretty superb weekend – we crossed that threshhold where the cast seems to collectively settle in and starting finding life and new layers in the performance. Always takes a few shows to do that. We also
2014 is my Shakesyear
This past weekend, Much Ado About Nothing opened in strong style – our first preview performance on Thursday was one of the tightest, best received “first” performances I’ve ever been a part of. And the official opening on Saturday was
A face hopefully a subscriber could love
Aaaaaand, there’s my face on a poster: I’ve always said that Benedick was the first role I ever got to play where I had the best lines and got to kiss the girl. I know that I don’t have leading
Just how much Ado does one need in a life?
Auditions on Monday night for another production of Much Ado About Nothing. Just to re-state for the record – I have appeared in three separate productions of this play, in four different roles. And I was invited to reprise the
Earning your time and making it count
Yesterday was exciting – or rather, much more exciting than you would predict eight hours of waiting to be. The Utah Shakespeare Festival, one of the most prestigious and successful Shakespeare festivals in America, was holding two days of auditions
Back to life
Until Thursday night, my only performance on stage in 2013 was for a 24 Hour Theatre showcase in the upstairs studio at the Long Beach Playhouse. That makes it over eight months since my last performance of Much Ado About
Are you ready for some Scottish Play?
Ready or not, we’re opening Maccers at Shakespeare Orange County. This production is hard rock – complete with electric guitar, fog machines, and the legitimately most badass wardrobe I’ve ever had the privilege to wear. It’s good to be the
Variety
As I mentioned in my last post (wow, that was awhile ago), I was briefly consumed by the job of Assistant Editing a feature, which is called The Pact II. I have not seen The Pact. It’s not strictly necessary