Hello, folks! I hope you've been getting more rest lately than I have. I'm still pledging Delta Kappa Alpha, my school's coed, pre-professional cinema fraternity (see my article on networkin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:25PM"Typecast [verb]: to assign (an actor or actress) repeatedly to the same type of role, as a result of the appropriateness of their appearance or previous success in such roles."Especially in…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:51PM1. Profanity/slurs Although profanity has become a lot more widespread in mainstream theater, there are still those who feel uncomfortable hearing "bad" words used on stage. I can understand…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PMIf you watched the Tony Awards this year, you know what a stir the play Peter and the Starcatcher caused on Broadway. I remember hearing it mentioned in the weeks leading up to the show, and…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:00AM"Money makes the world go around, the world go around, the world go around. Money makes the world go around, that clinking clanking sound!" – Cabaret (Kander and Ebb)As a student of theate…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:44PMFor me, this has been a week of madness. "More madness than usual, you mean?" you might say. Yes indeed. You see, I looked at my schedule, subconsciously panicked over my excess of free time…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PMLittle did I know that there was a theater just down the street from USC that would provide me with an international experience that is universal enough to touch anyone who sees it. 24th Str…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PMWhen you're up at 3:00am on your laptop in the library, slaving away at a paper on the Italian Renaissance, do you ever look up and suddenly think, "I'm a theater major. What am I DOING?"Bel…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:04PMIf you've answered it once, you've answered it a thousand times: "Hey! How are you! How was your summer?!" This is pretty much how conversations open for the first two weeks of classes. For …
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