I really enjoy this subject heading.

Okay, after my ambitious attempt to start a blog on a cooler looking site, I'm back ( Read more... )

Friends, at long last, I am changing blogs.

find me now at http://greatnortherncity.blogger.com

I'll check in here from time to time.  And the Fiebig blog will still be going.  That is all.

We're entering our final week of classes.  This is good ( Read more... )

I'm coming to the Blackfriars conference.  Now the question: when do WE hang out?

I took one of my students up to the Guthrie to see The Seagull today.  Directed by Trevor Nunn and part of the tour with King Lear starring Ian McKellan.

The fun thing was that Arkadina was played by Frances Barber, who played Cleopatra at the Globe all the M.Litt folks saw last year.  She is also playing Goneril.

I also saw the Balthasar from the ( Read more... )

I'm sitting at the final dress for our first production of the season.  Not bad, all told ( Read more... )

Nan is 37 weeks today.

My job these days is to build something that looks like a 1954 Hudson out of EMT conduit and welding supplies.

More details, but I'm going to start a new blog about my first year as faculty.  More later.  Swamped to the max.

Folks:

I need help in developing the "essential" Shakespeare/Original Practices book list.

Useful titles are about original staging practices, pronunciation, or are exceptionally edited Shakespeare volumes.

Videos are good, too.

Post forthwith.

Just finished a new employee lunch where we ate food and got our picture taken.

I think I've mentioned that our college president is a former NFL lineman and is possibly Paul Bunyon's grandson.  I am intimidated.

I'm also recovering from Theatre Camp, which is this sort of a marathon.  We renovated a theatre space, changed over a prop room, struck a ( Read more... )