Theatre Geekery

Hopefully the actors in a play want to learn and study up about their roles at least a little bit about the play by themselves. It certain...

Theatres often engage in educational activities. They will bring shows to schools and will provide educational packets to the schools for ...

Dramaturgs basically need to know everything about theatre. They have to be obsessed with it. One easy explanation that people give is th...

The Oxford English Dictionary defines dramaturgy as a noun that means "Dramatic composition, the dramatic art" or "Dramatic...

Now that I have covered objectives, stressing words, and beats, it is time to put scoring a monologue all together. If you haven't alr...

Today I promised to cover beats in a monologue. The thing is that there is no one specific definition to a beat. Different theatre artist...

When it comes to scoring a monologue, it is important for you to know which words you are going to stress. A monologue may already have so...

When it comes to scoring a monologue, there is no one "right way" to accomplish this. Scoring a monologue means that you are mar...

"Once upon a time, there was a little ogre named Shrek...." And thus begins the tale of an unlikely hero who finds himself on a...

I promised that I would tell how the emotions for that piece came. My teacher worked with me on this. I didn't focus on a person for ...

When I was taking theatre classes at McNeese State University in order to earn my undergraduate degree in theatre, I had to work on diffe...

When it comes to dialog in theatre, emotions are extremely important. I wanted to address this a little bit. I don't have much ready ...

Lake Charles Little Theatre is currently showing their production of Crowns by Regina Taylor. The description of the play from Dramati...

This reading plays challenge to read 52 plays in a year , is something that I want to do. However, I would want to replace the plays that ...

I've always been a theatre geek, so coming "clean" in the last post was fun. I've gotten caught up in many things. I...

It's time to come clean. I am a theatre geek. Are you a theatre geek? Here is where you will find all kinds of links and information...