2012 takes on a special significance for most Americans. Whether or not this is a make or break year depends a lot on one’s perspective on current problems and solutions that will lead to one’s own “promised land.” I write this on Martin Luther King day. I not only wish to honor him for...
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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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ARE WE PART OF “SHOW BUSINESS”??? Having just finished The Actors Center’s “Teacher Development Workshop,” and just before that “The New Leagues Actor Presentations,” commonly referred to as a “Show Case,” that question is much on my mind. Truth to tell, that question has dogged me for some forty years. That was not why...
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Events in our society and worldwide have preoccupied my thoughts for weeks as I have tried to understand the current nature of our culture during this time of chaos, upheaval and duress of every sort. Major earthquakes, global warming, genocide, religious war, raging disease, drought, famine, a deeply challenged economy, and an unending wave...
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To our readership and all actors and other theatre people who care. We are going to postpone our January Congess and I want you to know why. Following is the notice I sent out to our Company membership. -J. Michael Miller, December 14, 2010 Last night, I decided to postpone our Third National Congress....
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The Third National Congress of Actors Theme: Re-envisioning a Non-profit Theatre based on Major Acting Companies One hundred and fifty leading stage actors will be invited to participate in a two-day discussion of the role and efficacy of “acting companies.” Discussion will stem from examination and debate over a proposal for four designated “National...
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The Actors Center Journal Vol. 2, No. 4, November 2010 Founder’s Page On January 15 and 16, 2011, at 10am, we will convene the Third National Congress of Actors in an effort to change current practices and the prevailing culture of our not for profit theatres. At our first Congress, the question was the...
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The Actors Center Journal Vol. 2, No. 3, July 2010 Founder’s Page As I reach an age of longed-for perspective on what my life is and has been about, I find the questions that I face are more multi-dimensional, larger in scope, and open to a variety of legitimate responses. That seems to have...
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The Actors Center Journal Vol. 2, No. 2 Founder’s Page Spring is in the air and things are HAPPENING! HELLO out there. HOPE is not just last year’s slogan. Even my old buds started stirring when our new head of the National Endowment for the Arts stands before Congress and says “Jobs in the...
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The Actors Center Journal Vol 2 Num 1 Publisher’s Piece Being of appropriate age for reflection, I recall a moment in the late 1960’s, while perusing the just announced seasons of the so-called “regional” theatres, I was struck by the number of theatres producing the same play. Why, I thought? There were no Christmas...
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