1,392 stories from Theatrefolk
This week’s Movie Monologue Monday is going to look at Robert De Niro’s “That’s Entertainment”  monologue from the beginning of Raging Bull. It’s no…
Romeo and Juliet is probably Shakespeare’s best-known play, and often studied in schools. We’ve been heavily influenced by this play and there’s all sorts of great R&…
Groak: To silently watch someone while they are eating, hoping to be invited to join them. As a lover of words, nothing tickles me more than seeing words that used to have a life and do no l…
This month we conclude our extensive look at Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. It’s time to dive into the language of the play. How do we find character clues in the way a chara…
 Broadway needs to figure out YA. Wouldn’t it be great if a new musical connected to that hopeful, younger you inside (without pandering)? The above was a tweet that I saw recently …
Episode Thirty-Six: YouTube Fireside Chat. Little Shop of Horrors. Pull up a fake chair by our fake fire with a fake cup of hot cocoa and listen to Craig and Lindsay discuss and dissect diff…
I do love the Internet at time. I love it for the speed with which you can find something. The flip side of course is when you don’t know exactly what you’re looking for it can b…
On a previous Movie Monologue Monday I looked at Peter Finch in Network. Â Today I’m going to return to Network, this time looking at Ned Beatty’s brilliant and prophetic perfo…
We’re thrilled to announce the immediate availability of Lindsay Price’s newest script: Shuddersome: Tales of Poe. Shuddersome: Tales of Poe Adapted by Lindsay Price From the wor…
Over on Buzz Feed they have pictures of Happy Objects. Not, you know, objects with a cheery disposition, but that have happy faces somehow in them. They can’t help it, they look really…
One of my favourite activities on our free resources page is the Shakespearean Insult Activity. I don’t know where it originally came from. Way back in the middle ages, Lindsay a…
I’m working on a new play in a different way this month. Â It’s going to be from the ground up with a class. When we had the first meeting a student raised their hand and asked…
Episode Thirty-Five: Getting and Giving Feedback It’s necessary. It’s evil. It’s a necessary evil. Oh no not really, but there certainly is an art and a skill to giving and…
Last week I received some wonderful pictures from the Otto Middle School production of Tick Talk. I love the way they’ve colour blocked the different stories in the play and I really l…
This week’s Movie Monologue Monday is going to look at James Corden performing an excerpt from 1 Man, 2 Guvnors during the 2012 Tony Awards. I know this isn’t a movie so it techn…
"I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be enga…
The Stratford Festival is working with The University of Waterloo (my alma mater!) to develop some video games to complement their production of Romeo and Juliet. I’m very cur…
Who are the artists in your field that you love?  If you’re a playwright, what plays do you love?  Why do you love them? Do your loves change over time? Knowing who you love a…
Episode Thirty-Four: Once Upon a Midnight Dreary In this episode Lindsay talks with high school actors as they prepare to present her adaptation of Poe stories and poems. Based on this produ…
Owensboro High School put together a video following their road to winning Best Play (with our very own Among Friends and Clutter) at the Southeastern Theatre Conference. What impresse…
This week’s Movie Monologue is going to look at Steve Martin in The Jerk. Martin is a master of comedy and this scene is played brilliantly. It’s a spoof of the cliché breakup s…
I believe that the word “musician” is too-often used to discourage people from participating in their birthright as sound makers. We are all sound makers. Mark Stewart Here’…
In the Theatrefolk podcast this week I talked about celebrating the competition and got off on a little side tangent about what it must be like for athletes who not only must compete …
Theatre is supposed to be for everybody, but sometimes it feels anything but. Especially so on Broadway where tickets prices can be prohibitive. I found a Broadway trip report posted o…
The Guardian has compiled five of “the best video talks on theatre” and wanted to share them with you as well. The article asks the question: “How can the performing …
