Directing, Rehearsal, & Production

This post is the third of three posts about preparing for the typical high school competition. Part One looked at the most important question when choosing your competition piece. Part Two looked...

This post is the second of three posts about preparing for the typical high school competition. Part One looked at the most important question when choosing your competition piece, and in Part Two...

The show I’ve been doing this summer is staged in the round. Well, the audience is arranged in a more square-like pattern, but “in the round” will suffice for our purposes. There aren’t many...

“When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not. ~ Mark Twain Line notes are like reminders to floss your teeth – nobody likes hearing them but they keep your mouth...

When I was researching my blog post on copyright for choreographers, I stumbled on this excellent post that addresses a question many theatre directors have: “What kind of licensing/permission is...

Donalda McCarthy posted this intriguing question on our Facebook page: “Should Choreographers copyright their work? Discuss.” i.e. If a high school does a musical and pays the playwright royalties...

“Are you sometime’s amazed at how many apostrophe’s s’ome people manage to fi’t into s’entence’s? Then you’re not the only one. That’s just the problem that needs to be solved in this outrageous...

Liberty High School performed a way out performance of Jealousy Jane in the fall for their district festival. The original script calls for five actors and little more than a couple of cubes....

This week we spread the love for Split by Bradley Hayward. Recorded live at the 2012 TETA Conference in Houston, Texas.

This week we spread the love for Sixteen in 10 Minutes or Less by Bradley Hayward. Recorded live at the 2012 TETA Conference in Houston, Texas.

Ten Things to think about when you’re preparing to ask Theatrefolk for changes to a play: 1. The best time to ask about a change is before you decide to do the play. That’s going to be easiest for...

In our travels to various conferences we’ve heard of a lot of different ways to cast school plays. Here are a few of the casting techniques we have encountered: “Traditional” auditionsSet up...

This week we spread the love for Alice, adapted by Lindsay Price from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Recorded live on some very spinny teacups!

This week we spread the love for Upon a Sea of Dreams: A Journey on the Titanic by Kathleen Donnelly.

Marisa Burrows from Barber Middle School (Dickinson, TX) helps Lindsay spread the love for School Daze, a Vignette Play written especially for middle schools.

Recorded live at the Missouri Thespian Conference! Lindsay spreads the love with the Smithton High School cast of Anne-Arky.

Here’s a New Video Tip. Today’s topic is “How do I Control Pauses?” View it here.

Here’s a New Video Tip. Today’s topic is “Wanderitis” View it here.