In 454 BC, Greek Actors revolted against the producers of the annual theatre festivals that dotted the nation state and were central to its culture. The actors wanted to be paid in relation to their contribution to this national homage to their gods, and the people’s understanding of the nature of human frailty as...
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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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What began as a simple, clear-eyed way for dedicated actor training institutions to relate to those intermediaries who assist and connect actors to a profession, has become an over-crowded, misconstrued mess. What was meant to provide the best of our emerging actors an introduction to the range of people who need to know of...
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The National Endowment for the Arts may be more threatened than ever before by the political forces galvanized in this economic recession. Along with the national commitment to our cultural enlightenment and cultural institutions that the Endowment symbolizes, our sense of self-growth and understanding of the larger issues facing all of us are at...
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The Actors Center Journal Vol. 2, No. 3, July 2010 Ongoing Concerns In my Call to Arms, March, 2010, I proposed a return of acting companies to a chosen few of our larger not-for-profit theatres and then designating each as a National Theatre. That proposal as presented was a quick sketch of something that...
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The Actors Center Journal Vol. 2, No. 2 Ongoing Concerns: Every red blooded American surely knows the ringing cry of “The British are coming! The British are coming!” Paul Revere’s rallying cry awoke sleeping patriots to the advancing armies of King George. A version of that cry, uttered in 1775, rang out again on...
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The Actors Center Journal Vol. 1 No. 2, November 2009 Ongoing Concerns Circa 2000, the Actors Center administered the Fox Fellowships, now administered by the Theatre Communications Group. Our criteria for a fellowship—essentially a mini-sabbatical for actors—was that you be nominated by a significant cohort of your fellow actors, who believed your work stood...
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The Actor’s Center Journal Vol. 1 Num. 1 September 2009 Ongoing Concerns (This issue’s moral tale) One of the most depressing, if widely accepted, gangrenous infections in our field was exposed in a most unexpected way on August 15, 2009. In a New York Times article, David Itzkoff reported: “As Twitter becomes increasingly popular,...
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