*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....
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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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“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...
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I am writing with no idea how it will appear in our new format. I feel tentative writing in a vacuum, or more accurately, with no idea of how to picture this will actually reach you. This is not desirable. Context is always desirable. However, I feel that, increasingly, this is how we live—without...
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The Actors Center Journal Vol. 2, No. 4, November 2010 Phil’s Page One of our trusting and very caring and not at all wet behind the ears advisors has suggested to us that with more and more high profile actors interested in working in the theatre, the chances of populating a series of major...
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The Actors Center Journal, July 2010 Vol 2, Num 3 Phil’s Page Here is The Actors Center Journal making all this noise about a National Theatre which would, of course, be a repertory theatre and after a little soul searching, I have had to confess to myself, and so to you, that I am...
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The Actors Center Journal Vol. 2, No. 2 Phil’s Page In my zeal to instill the wonderful way I think into as many minds as possible, I find myself doing lectures and workshops about acting and the business and getting a job and who might qualify to be a truly great actor and who...
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The Actors Center Journal Vol. 1 No. 2, November 2009 Phil’s Page Where Have You Gone, Joseph Schildkraut? by Philip Carlson As a former agent, it breaks my heart the number of gifted—nay, extremely gifted—actors who cannot find work in the theatre today. And since I choose to live by my opinions, it comes...
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The Actor’s Center Journal Vol. 1 Num. 1 September 2009 Letter From The Editor What Are We Doing? In 1970, John Gielgud wrote to his friend Irene Worth that he had been given a tour of one of America’s premier acting conservatories and he commented, “Wonderful classrooms, two theatres, superbly equipped—about 70 students who...
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