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...
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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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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...
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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...
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The Actors Center Journal Vol. 2, No. 4, November 2010 Letter from the Editor Well, we are a little late in getting this issue out, but the tasks that have been delaying us—most notably the planning for the upcoming Third National Congress in January—have been consuming, necessary and exciting. Michael Miller’s Founder’s Page, which...
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The Actors Center Journal Vol. 2, No. 3, July 2010 Letter From The Editor We are coming sharply into focus in the pages that follow on a fresh and practical concept of a National Theatre structure. We discuss what such an extraordinary possibility might actually be. How it could come about. How it would...
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The Actors Center Journal Vol. 2, No. Letter From The Editor I am concerned about a very slow, I might even say cautious, level of response to the opinions expressed in this Journal. I don’t know if that’s because there are real technical difficulties (for which we apologize) involved in setting up the Forum....
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The Actors Center Journal Vol 2 Num 1 Letter From The Editor Nascent publication though we are, we interrupt our regularly scheduled format to bring you an issue setting forth what we feel is an urgent proposal for an American National Theatre. The dream of a national theatre stole my acting teacher from me....
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The Actors Center Journal Vol. 1, No. 2, November 2009 Publisher’s Piece The other night, I went to the opening of “The Royal Family” on Broadway. I was an agent for over thirty years and openings used to feel like work because they were. I frequently had a client or two or three on...
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The Actor’s Center Journal Vol. 1 Num. 1 September 2009 Letter From The Editor Welcome to the first edition of The Actors Center Journal. We will be a bi-monthly trove of information and opinion mostly emanating from anything having to do with the concept of the actor as an artist. Time was when the...
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