Well, as George said to Martha, “When you get down to the bone, you haven’t gone all the way, yet. There’s something inside the bone… the marrow… and that’s what you gotta get at.” In this issue, we attempt to get at the marrow, the core of what we, individually and collectively are all...
Read more »
The Actors Center Board doesn’t really have a chairperson, but it would be fair to describe Frank Sciame as the Board’s cornerstone. Frank is a handsome man hovering somewhere around 60 years of age. He has stone gray Jeff Chandler hair and a manner that is equal parts John Garfield and Cary Grant. He...
Read more »
*with apologies to the towering Joseph Heller I get the willies when I think about it. Something did happen. Managers happened. Managers have become ubiquitous and almost taken for granted as a necessity to any career, even a young career. Stars always had managers. Now beginners have them, too. Why? Just to get noticed....
Read more »
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...
Read more »
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...
Read more »
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...
Read more »
It feels as if this issue has been a long time gestating but I trust the protracted birthing process has yielded up some very worthwhile summer reading for you all. And, yes, even beach reading for those of you with laptops. Judging from the shows I saw and the shows I wanted to see...
Read more »
OLYMPIA DUKAKIS grew up in Lowell, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Greek immigrants and she had a brother named Apollo. She lived in a rough neighborhood. The Dukakis kids got into their share of fights. At eleven years old, Olympia carried a knife for protection. The world at large became aware of Olympia...
Read more »
“The other fellow first.” That was the motto of the summer camp I went to in the fifties. I loved that camp. I recollect its motto now because there doesn’t seem to be a lot of fellow feeling in the theatre these days. Not for audiences, who are being priced out of all consideration...
Read more »
With this issue introducing a whole new look to The Actors Center Journal, perhaps it is an appropriate moment to step back and look at where we are, where we have been and where we would like to go. (For more on that, see Phil’s Page.) Hopefully, this new format will allow our readers...
Read more »
