Once a theatrical production plays its last show, that’s typically the last the cast and crew think about it. It’s an “out of sight, out of mind” kind of thing. They put away their costumes and scripts, and make room for the next production.
It’s fun seeing live theater even if I know every beat of a show, but still, I sometimes think it would be an interesting experience to go in completely, or at least mostly, unfamiliar.
As soon as the curtain closed on their production of “Guys and Dolls,” actor Danny Anderson knew he’d be working with My Turn Theater in some capacity.
In college, while running an on-campus, student-run, William Shakespeare-specific theater group, Abby Burlingame remembers thinking “If I could do this forever, I would be so happy.”
When speaking about “Torch Song” before the play’s opening weekend, Theater on the Verge co-founders Troy Nickerson and Chris Jensen noted the play is groundbreaking for its handling of main character Arnold Beckoff, a gay, Jewish man who lives in New York and works as a drag performer.
It will be like Spokane Tribe Casino’s own late-night show Friday as Jay Leno and special guest Arsenio Hall bring their standup routine to the Inland Northwest.
There are some things that, though we loved them when we were younger, don’t age so well upon a later review. For Lake City Playhouse Artistic Director Brooke Wood, that was “Grease.”
We all have that friend who flits about from one thing to the next, not realizing just how much their scatter-brained, sometimes borderline chaotic, behavior can affect others.
Last summer, Troy Nickerson and Chris Jensen were combing through scripts in search of the perfect show with which to debut their independent theater company Theater on the Verge.
