First reviews are in for this edition of Much Ado and are thus far highly-complimentary! I remember meeting the gentleman who wrote this piece – he waited for everyone and was very happy and supportive. And I’ll be taking that
Opening Night
I’ve looked better, but given how uncomfortable a position I had to contort myself into for the sake of this tableau, I’m just glad I managed to smile.
So…so much Ado
This is getting hilarious – for the third time in the last 18 months, I have been cast in a production of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. But for the first time, it’s in my new hood of Los Angeles,
Again with the Ado
Last night was our first performance, and tonight is the official premiere of Much Ado. When it comes to comedy, you really need an audience to confirm for you if you’re doing anything funny, and last night’s audience was damn
What’s in a name?
Not much blogging lately, I know. Overlapping two shows will do that to you. But we survived the closing of Richard III (not to mention the celebration after – I’m not in college anymore but I held my own); so
When is the winter of our discontent?
Richard III officially opened last night after a Thursday preview. Like most previews, we were a little nerved before we settled into our relationship with the audience. I felt no small awe at my first experience performing on an amphitheater
Getting Made
Last night we paid a visit to the Amphitheater where Richard III will perform – the platforms of the set are built and in-place, so we did our first barely-stopping stumble-through of everything from “Now is the winter of our
Back on the boards
Tonight is the first read-through for Richard III at Shakespeare Orange County. It has been quite some time since the audition; enough for me, in my insecurity, to assume they’d decided to drop me in favor of someone talented a
Nothing like a summer stabbing
“O, then began the tempest to my soul, Who pass’d, methought, the melancholy flood, With that grim ferryman which poets write of, Unto the kingdom of perpetual night.” Holy guacamole, friends, I have been cast as the Duke of Clarence