Thursday
Mar222012

Reviews are in!

The Mourners' Bench, George Brant's exquisite play, opened two weeks ago at Trinity Repertory Company, and the raves are coming in.  It's a production I'm extremely proud of, and so it gives me great pleasure and hope that the encouragement will mean more people get to see it!

Providence Journal

Providence Phoenix

The Sun Chronicle

Warwick Beacon

Providence Monthly

Woonsocket Call Review

NBC 10

Try to see it if you can!! An extraordinary evening at the theater!

Friday
Feb032012

Returning Home

One of the great joys of working in theater is being able to find artistic homes.  Trinity Repertory Company is one of those homes for me, and this Sunday I'll be heading back. 

I'm heading up to direct the premiere production of George Brant's haunting, moving play The Mourner's Bench.  Exploring the ways in which we are forever attached to the past - sometimes not even our own, it's a play that is surprisingly devastating and hopeful. 

Trinity has taken on the noble challenge of producing three new plays in rep this year, allowing Providence to be exposed to new work, and allowing the company to really perform as a repertory company.  I'm curious and intrigued to see how Curt Columbus' Sparrowgrass and Deb Salem Smith's Love Alone will dialogue with The Mourners' Bench, and how our spectacular cast and production team will rise to the challenge.  

Above all, I'm excited to return to another home and be amongst family.

Friday
Feb032012

My Favorite Moment of the Bee...

In a few short weeks, I will be packing my bags to head down to Baton Rouge, LA to direct the LSU Mainstage production of James Lapine and William Finn's hilarious and charming 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.  Though hilarious and charming, it's also a musical of outsiders all of a sudden finding themselves on the inside.   I can't wait to explore it with the production team and wonderful cast.  

 

Friday
Feb032012

Summertime...

I'm thrilled to announce that I will be directing David Ives' Adaptation of Mark Twain's Is He Dead? for Creede Repertory Theater this summer.  Creede is in the beautiful mountains of Colorado, and I can't wait to spend my June with what seems like an exciting, dedicated and extremely fun company working on a play that tickled me right to my funnybone when I read it.

What makes it doubly thrilling is that in September, it will be moving to The Arvada Center just outside of Denver.  It will be an interesting challenge to transfer this farce from an intimate space to a much larger one, but I'm looking forward to entertaining as many different audiences as we can!

Sunday
Nov272011

Well, well well well well well well well well well...

Will wonders never cease!

I'm in heaven this week - I'm lucky enough to be doing an observership with Scott Ellis and his associate director David Solomon as they put together a star studded concert of "She Loves Me" for the Roundabout Theater.  Watching these incredible talented people at work is a true master class in Musical Comedy, and also in how to put together a theatrical event with absolutely no time.  It's a gift to be in the room, and the concert will be a gift to anyone lucky enough to go!