Everyone involved with Homestead’s Drama Club in any way, shape, or form throughout the 2013-2014 school year is cordially invited to the 3rd annual PATS Awards Banquet. The theme this year is NEVERLAND, so come in a costume or dress fancy/Black Tie attire. Come for a fancy evening and share a scrumptious dinner, witness the … More
Amelia Figg-Franzoi here, Ms. Figg-Franzoi to most of you reading this, but I know you refer to me by my first name behind my back. Yes, I’m on to you all. Anyway, I shall be posting as myself tonight, not as some theatrical entity or on behalf of Katie Bandurski when I force her to … More Musing from Mom
Our Ushers trying to keep patrons from bringing food into the auditorium
By Mark Twain “For the instruction of the ignorant I will make a list, now, of those details of Shakespeare’s history which are FACTS – verified facts, established facts, undisputed facts …. He was born on the 23d of April, 1564. Of good farmer-class parents who could not read, could not write, could not sign … More Is Shakespeare Dead?
This is how I feel for Romeo and Juliet… or you know anytime I try to buy anything for the theatre department.
By Alan O’Riordan “Oh shut up, Baldrick – you’d laugh at a Shakespeare comedy.” THAT line, delivered by Rowan Atkinson playing the Elizabethan Edmund Blackadder in the TV comedy, Blackadder, made sense to me as a 14-year-old. At school, we were reading Shakespeare’s Henry IV Part 1 and laughing, not at the jokes, but at … More Shakespeare is a man for all seasons
“The horror of movies is that they’re always the same – they never acknowledge the audience reaction. What keeps theatre alive is that each experience is unique. Each audience does affect the material, it affects the way that actors perform. Clarity is particularly important to me. I want the audience to at least understand what … More Audiences in Theatre
“That’s the scary thing about theater: it doesn’t live on. But that’s actually the most beautiful thing about it, too. That’s why it’s more beautiful than film and certainly more beautiful than television, because it’s like life. Real life. Any picture that you take or any video that you make of yourself is not really … More Live theatre
Come celebrate World Theatre Day in the Black Box after school! Brett Bailey’s Message Wherever there is human society, the irrepressible Spirit of Performance manifests. Under trees in tiny villages, and on high tech stages in global metropolis; in school halls and in fields and in temples; in slums, in urban plazas, community centres and … More Message of World Theatre Day 2014
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