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Stage Managing 101
This begins a 3-part series on the job of the Stage Manager, considered by many as the most important role in a production.
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Stage Managing 101
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ContinueAdded by Trish Causey on January 15, 2011 at 1:30pm — No Comments
Home-brew Electronics
During the holiday break I was reading through recent posts on the show control mailing lists, and stumbled across a thread concerning do-it-yourself printed circuit boards. The processes ranged from simple transfer/resistance etching to desktop CNC routers; the sheer number of people doing this got me thinking, “This must not be so hard.” So I did a little further snooping, and it turns out, while making PC-boards “at home” isn’t “easy,” per se, it truly isn’t that hard. And the potential…
ContinueAdded by Rich Dionne on January 14, 2011 at 4:00am — No Comments
Theatre Plant Design – Who’s Watching the Hen House?
Few Architects or School Administrators truly understand the inner workings of theatres or lecture halls as a production space. Most of the public think that "elves and fairies come in the night" and put on a show. …
ContinueAdded by Erich Friend on January 13, 2011 at 4:00am — No Comments
Chapter 3 of the Care and Feeding of Wireless Mics... Protecting Mics
To condom or not to condom, that is the question. No.. this has nothing to do with sex... I'm talking about wireless mic packs.
This is a much bickered over topic, and both sides have points, but in my experience of the musical, weather you prefer condoms, choose to construct gortex sleeves, or rig mic belts with plastic wrap or sandwich bags, you've go to take some protective measures where mic packs are concerned, because sweat kills. So - bag that puppy -…
ContinueAdded by Richelle Thompson on January 11, 2011 at 5:00am — No Comments
Who's Job is 'Safety'?
Much of my practice as a Theatre Consultant involves the safety and well-being of my customers. This is a multi-faceted element as I get involved with projects from several different aspects:
- I visit many theatres just to see how they are constructed and…
Added by Erich Friend on January 6, 2011 at 5:00am — 2 Comments
Productions as Scholarship: Learning Together
Last week, I explored how to harness the pedagogical power of realized productions in an academic environment. Though I indicated at the end of my last post that I’d explore some of my frustrations in effectively linking coursework to production work, I want to postpone that and instead respond to a question sent by a colleague regarding last week’s post, which opens up interesting questions that I hope all of you might be interested in…
ContinueAdded by Rich Dionne on January 7, 2011 at 4:00am — No Comments
Twitter and Theatre
I don’t want this blog post to be a commercial for Twitter… but it might venture close to that territory. If I cross a line, I do hope you’ll forgive me. All I want to do is make you happy. And I promise you: Twitter can make you happy, 140 characters at a time. No, really. I can give you five reasons, in fact.
#1: Networking
… ContinueAdded by Gwydion Suilebhan on January 5, 2011 at 5:00am — 2 Comments
Chapter 2 of the Care and Feeding of Wireless Mics... The Mic Pack and Element
Happy New Year, ya'll!
Last time I talked about set-up and tuning of your wireless system to get the best results. The next step is making sure the mic pack and accompanying element are placed correctly on your actor.
Starting with the mic pack... There are lots of places a mic…
ContinueAdded by Richelle Thompson on January 4, 2011 at 4:00am — No Comments
Choosing an Audition Song
Since it's Musical Monday, let's start the day off with some tips on how to choose a song for an audition. The song must be a perfect fit from…
Added by Trish Causey on January 2, 2011 at 11:30pm — No Comments
Real Problems, Real Learning
In last week’s blog, I wrote that I would use this space to share my journey to develop the courses and curricula I’m teaching at Purdue. To begin, I thought I might explore some fundamental questions about theatre instruction: what is the place of realized productions in an academic program? What is the relationship between academic coursework and production work? How do you balance the academic needs of students involved in productions with the production needs for a…
ContinueAdded by Rich Dionne on December 31, 2010 at 4:00am — 2 Comments
Hard Floors vs. Hard Heads
For those of you that missed it in the news – A major Broadway Musical production of SpiderMan suffered a serious publicity snafu last week when the aerialist playing Spidey took and unexpected 30 foot dive off of the scenery. (…
ContinueAdded by Erich Friend on December 30, 2010 at 6:00am — 8 Comments
What Playwrights Should Study
About a month and a half ago, I was part of a long discussion on Twitter about whether MFA programs were any good for playwrights. My strong opinion then, as it is now, is that I wish they would just go away. As we all know from Outrageous Fortune -- or if you don't, where have you been? -- there are now a small number of MFA programs that are producing, one way or another, many…
ContinueAdded by Gwydion Suilebhan on December 29, 2010 at 8:00am — 7 Comments
The Musical and Chapter 1 of the Care and Feeding of Wireless Microphones
I’m sitting to write this blog between projects – cleaning up holiday gunk and writing a strike list. When this blog posts, the ASF Christmas musical, Peter…
ContinueAdded by Richelle Thompson on December 28, 2010 at 9:00am — 4 Comments
Vocal Health During the Winter Months
Vocal health is a crucial topic for anyone who makes their living with their voice. From actors…
Added by Trish Causey on December 27, 2010 at 8:09am — 1 Comment
Illumination Solutioneer: Michael Maag Lights up the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Added by Suzi Steffen on April 9, 2009 at 5:00pm — 1 Comment
Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and a little more about Oregon, coming right up!
Added by Suzi Steffen on April 1, 2009 at 3:42pm — 3 Comments
My Personal Theatre History
Added by Lauren Taylor on March 31, 2009 at 7:07pm — No Comments
Love it
Added by Bo Cecil on March 30, 2009 at 9:33pm — 2 Comments
New Edition of Concert Lighting by James Moody to be Released in Sept.
Added by James Moody on March 31, 2009 at 2:42pm — No Comments
Lighting 101 - Part 2 Webinar
Added by Richard Cadena on March 28, 2009 at 7:04am — No Comments
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