Enchanted April’s Closing Weekend

Friday morning, as I stood with Scott and Pam Nolte in the Gordito's parking lot watching water cascading into the lobby of Taproot Theatre, one thing was very clear: there would be no performance of Enchanted April that night.  There would be a mountain of work, sorting everything out, getting the theatre back on its …

Opening Enchanted April

Another opening night tonight.  Enchanted April, at Taproot Theatre, opens tonight at 8:00 p.m. It's been a good process, a nice re-entry back into the world of acting after a two year hiatus.  My role is small, but has enough in it to make it challenging, and I'm pretty sure I'm not really hitting the …

Words When There Aren’t Any

I slept an hour later than usual this morning, two hours later than the mornings when I get up to hit the gym at 5.  As a result I'm sitting here dead-headed, without much to say.  So I'm reading an article on whether or not we plagarize consciously or unconsciously, and does it matter?  Quite …

Finishing the Story: Le Theatre du Soleil

Okay, so I've got to finish the story that I seem to start for everyone, including the congregation yesterday morning, but never seem to finish. If you're following me on Twitter, you may have noticed a series of tweets on Saturday related to my daughter Amy and a particular theatre production in New York.  Les …

Questions About Possibility

Yesterday, I came across a web site called <100K Project, an awareness raising enterprise by Scott Walters dedicated to “bring(ing) the arts back home” to small and rural communities with populations under 100,000."  One of the posts I spent some time with is titled "On the Possibility of Art."  An interesting move Walters makes is …