We have just come across the following words written by LLOYD RICHARDS in 1993. They speak with astounding prescience to the core topic we have attempted to address in this issue of The Journal and that would be diversity. It is now 2011 and there is still no other word. In addition to the...
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This would appear to be an issue populated by interviews and declarations of the importance of theatre to human existence echoing across the aisles and the airwaves. Marjan Neshat, a member of The Actors Center Company and Ken Prewitt and his wife Susan Vogel, whose voluminous interests and credits are set forth in their...
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“What’s in a name?” We are all called upon to reflect on that question from time to time. I remember struggling with that question from the time I was 5 to almost 25, for no good reason, like suppose my first name was “Lance”, etc. But this last week was particularly poignant. First, we...
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Marjan Neshat is a member of The Actors Center Workshop Company. She graduated from SUNY Purchase about ten years ago and she has been working steadily ever since. It would be incorrect to say that she has been making a comfortable living but she has been able to do exemplary work in some wonderful...
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Ken Prewitt and Susan Vogel are married to each other. They live in a perfect house hidden in the trees high above a 100 acre man-made lake an hour and seventeen minutes north of New York City. It is easy to envy the property and their life together but it is impossible to begrudge...
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Not For Profit Theatre – An Amateur Rumination. Or a rumination by an amateur. I ought to confess at the outset that I have no idea what technically qualifies a theatre for not for profit status. As someone who has worked in and around the theatre for forty years, I can say that I...
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HOMO EMPATHICUS or The Science of Loving Theatre em•pa•thy noun 1. the intellectual identification with or vicarious experiencing of the feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of another. I’m a few weeks into rehearsal for a show that I’ve written, am performing in and am playing a version of myself…and I’m in search of….empathy. I think....
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