Theatre For Thought, December 3, 2011
FEAR ITSELFjoel fishbaneI've been thinking about stage fright recently, mostly because I don't suffer from it. But I used to. I was born late and had to be ushered onto stage a few years later in my school's Purim pageant (Purim being Carnival for Jews). Stage fright, known in the non-acting world as Performance Anxiety, is a pretty common thing, afflicting everyone from Abraham Lincoln to Elvis Presley to Brad Pitt.…