Strut and Fret
Playworks: spike in midnight oil sales
Good thing we like to read plays around here.
More…NBC digs beneath the glitz
“There’s a broken heart for every light on Broadway,” sighs a world-weary theatre producer (played by Anjelica Huston) in the first episode of Smash. NBC’s weekly drama series, following the starry-eyed dreams and backstage battles of a blockbuster-musical-in-the-making, premiered 10 p.m. EST Monday (watch a full-length preview here.)
More…Julie Woffington on 'process'
Comments from EdTA Executive Director Julie Woffington were featured in an article in a recent issue of Associations Now, a magazine for association executives published by ASAE: the Center for Association Leadership.
More…The Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington D.C. is allowing three people to tweet from dress rehearsals of Jason Grote’s new play, Civilization (all you can eat).
More…I don’t know how you do it, but I’m glad you do
Originally published in our Strut and Fret blog on January 13, 2012.
In order to learn more about how to best serve the needs of our members, I recently spent the day walking in the shoes of Tom Peters, veteran theatre teacher of twenty-five years at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati. Just five years ago the Walnut Hills theatre department had three full-time teachers. Now Tom is the only one left, a one-man show, a jack of all trades, for this high school of 2,400 students. I didn’t realize until I went through his day just how many roles he serves.
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