"At our first meeting of the Cohort Club for the Book Club Play director Sean Daniels distributed a handout entitled “ How to Watch Directing” by John Jory. As I watched rehearsals during tech and preview week, many of the components in Jory’s piece really hit home. And I also realized that Sean really put … Continue reading A cohorts take on directing by Joanna Grosodonia
Month: February 2013
(this picture is from Tyler's off-Broadway debut BULLET FOR ADOLF, which was co-written and directed by Woody Harrelson - Tyler is about to become a regular blogger as they get ready to move the show to Rochester.) "Hello Geva Nation! I’m Tyler Jacob Rollinson and I’m playing John in The Whipping Man by Matthew Lopez, … Continue reading Meet Tyler J. Rollinson, who will play John in THE WHIPPING MAN
For opening night, the Book Club Play team brought an old tradition of ours to Rochester - Live Band Karaoke. After the staff has worked so hard to make the designers vision possible, the designers work hard to make the staff feel like rockstars. As Matt Callahan says "it's a party, not a performance". … Continue reading Book Club Play: Live Band Karaoke Pics
The band is practicing for tonight!
Love that last night's performance report referred to them as the "Dream Design Team". Truth.
The blog this month has been all about plays in progress - Sean's posts from both the rehearsal room and from the theatre have been about the fine tuning that plays go through in production. Karen Zacarias, playwright of The Book Club Play, remarked yesterday to audience members during the Prologue that plays take time to find … Continue reading Plays in Progress
As we prepare to open The Book Club Play in the Mainstage on Saturday night, and as the Bob set loads into the Fielding Nextstage, I stumbled upon this article in the L.A. Times about Mike Daisey's The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, an adaptation of which was our last show in the Nextstage. In this article, Daisey … Continue reading Mike Daisey Says the Fiasco May Have Done Some Good
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