Theatre Journalist Guest Blogger: Samantha Tirrell has written 8 articles for BroadwayWorld since 2001, covering Broadway.
Samantha Tirrell is a student stage manager double-majoring in Theatre and English at Russell Sage College in Troy, NY (at which the Theatre Institute at Sage is in residence). Her favorite credits with the Theatre Institute include Spring Awakening, The Stinky Cheese Man (Tour), Romeo and Juliet, and Backbeard. This summer, Samantha will relocate to Nantucket to further immerse herself in the world of stage management in the Theatre Workshop of Nantucket's internship program.
We are about to enter our final week of rehearsal for Backbeard: A New Musical at the Theatre Institute at Sage! This Friday, we will begin technical rehearsals for the show, and we open for school groups next Wednesday, June 1st.
Exciting things are happening with Backbeard here at the Theatre Institute at Sage! This past week, as we've finished staging the piece and other creative elements have started surfacing in rehearsal, has been an exciting reminder of how many different mediums of art are synthesized in the creation
This week over at the Theatre Institute at Sage, we staged Backbeard's big visit to the tailor shop, where two ostentatious tailors are given the fashion challenge of their lives -- Backbeard, who has been restricted by the Pirate Council to wearing only clothing without color, needs new clothes aft
According to page 136, paragraph four, subsection C of the Pirate Handbook, on a pirate's 'older-than-ninth birthday,' his trusty crew must grant him a fight! That is exactly what happened this week at the Theatre Institute at Sage in our staging of Backbeard's own birthday fight, an exciting 10-pir
We've just finished our first week of music rehearsals for Backbeard at the Theatre Institute at Sage! Because Backbeard has been workshopped with our department a couple of times now, most of the cast is already very familiar with the music, so the trajectory of our music rehearsals was naturally a
The arrival of warm weather in the Northeast means for most college students that the semester is winding down and that summer break is drawing nearer; however, for theatre majors at Russell Sage College, the warm weather is an exciting indicator for us that our summer production is just around the