BWW Blog: Handling Rejection
When I was around 15 or 16, there were auditions in my town for The Miracle Worker.
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When I was around 15 or 16, there were auditions in my town for The Miracle Worker.
Hi everyone! My name is Meghan, and I'm a Junior Lighting Design and Technology Emphasis at Oklahoma City University.
In my first journalism course, my professor would bring in the best of her graduated students to guest lecture once a month.
Lesson number one: paint one straight white line and one straight black line onto your forearm in cream stage makeup.
There are so many ways you can absorb theatre but one of the most important and underrated ways is through television.
Congratulations! After months of countless auditions, Unifeds, interviews, callbacks, portfolio reviews and the dreaded waiting (and inevitable acceptance and denial) period you have final found a collegiate theatrical home...only to find out that it's not actually your home.
Here's the deal.
Something that every artist needs to learn is how to effectively collaborate.
For all of my terrified freshmen out there, this one's for you.
So, you've finally moved up to the big leagues, college.
What is stage dooring? How do you stage door at a show? How should you behave at the stage door? These were questions I was thinking about as I visited New York this past weekend to see a few shows.
Congrats, you've made it to college! The freedom you feel while in college is truly something special and you get to put your life in high school behind! It's the fresh start you've dreamed of! It's also a great time to hone your talents and really figure out who you are.
This past week has had ups, and downs.
As college students, most of us have probably become accustomed to working with fellow actors our age who may have been doing theatre for several years, but how often are we getting involved in our communities to work with children and teens who are being introduced to theatre for potentially the…
This past weekend I had the pleasure of seeing a production of Spamalot at the University of South Carolina Beaufort (USCB) Center for the Arts and it inspired me to discuss not only the importance of seeing theatre but also how there is so much theatre that is around you that you haven't yet…
I wanted to be an actor for a really long time.
I'm going to start this off with something that you probably already know: being a student is hard.
It's just now what we might call mid-September, and I already feel as though I've been back at school for three months instead of three weeks.
When we think about hunger, we usually hear it preceded by the word world, or mass, and in the context of food.
Hello BroadwayWorld, it is such a pleasure to be given this opportunity to write a blog about college, theater, and all the different aspects of the arts.
I think we all know as theatre artists, that an important part of our craft is paying our dues.
How many of us have had the opportunity to work in an unconventional theater space? To strip down bare, take away all the commodities that a traditional theater has, and perform a show in a unique space with a simple sound system and just a few par-cans? One local theatre company in Johnstown, PA…
14 months ago I and a group of students from my college (Pitt-Johnstown) embarked on a project working with a local Summer Stock theater in our area to commemorate their 80th anniversary.
Coming into week two we really started to crack into our Three Sisters work.
Hello everyone! I've been blessed to be given the opportunity to study with Anne Bogart and SITI company here at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs New York.