Meet Sonya: Maria DeCotis on her role in ‘Uncle Jack’
What is your role in ‘Uncle Jack?’ Sonya What have you learned while creating this role? I have learned a lot about how I measure my own worth. And how my characters measure their worth. Sonya is a very intelligent, strong, and stubborn individual. She’s a ballbreaker. The ballbreaker I wish to be. It’s a […]
Into the woods?
Just for fun — as we enter this final weekend of Michael Hammond’s Uncle Jack — posters from all over the world advertising productions of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya. (Thank you to our intern Marissa for her help with this!) Don’t miss Michael Hammond’s ‘Uncle Jack,’ a new collaboration with our friends at the Boston Center for American […]
Meet Elena: Madeleine Lambert on her role in ‘Uncle Jack’
What is your role in ‘Uncle Jack?’ Elena What have you learned while creating this role? Acting 101 (I think I relearn this every single time I work on a play): Stay present with your scene partners and in doing so surprise yourself and your fellow artists. Abandon originally held ideas so that more effective […]
Talkin’ To: Michael Hammond
Don’t miss our co-production with the Boston Center for American Performance, Michael Hammond’s Uncle Jack, which opens in preview tomorrow night! (And thank you, as always, to our friend and resident videographer Alexis Scheer!)
‘Uncle Jack’ poster art
Uncle Jack by CFA faculty member Michael Hammond — a co-production with the Boston Center for American Performance — opens next week. The multi-talented Tim Spears (who is also in the Uncle Jack cast!) designed this elegant poster featuring Uncle Jack himself, actor John Kooi.
Scored BTM XVII play packets due back 1/12
Look — more photos of the table! Thank you again to everyone who took home packets of plays to read over holiday break! Now it’s time to tabulate the scores for each ten-minute play submitted so we can get the highest-scoring scripts to Boston Theater Marathon XVII’s final judges. Please return your play packets to […]
All gone! Thank you!
THANK YOU to everyone who came by over the past two weeks to pick up play packets to read for Boston Theater Marathon XVII. Your generous participation means so much to us, and we look forward to presenting you with the best New England playwrights have to offer when we gather once again at the […]
‘Chosen Child’ family
We said goodbye to Chosen Child over the weekend, but not before posing for this family photo. (Thanks Greg Nash!) Standing (L-R): Stage Manager Greg Nash, Lewis D. Wheeler (David), Lee Mikeska Gardner (Claudia), Director Megan Schy Gleeson, Playwright Monica Bauer, Assistant Stage Manager Mary Darling. Front (L-R): Melissa Jesser (Anne), Debra Wise (Donna), and […]
Meet Lee: Margaret Ann Brady on her role in ‘Chosen Child’
What is your role in ‘Chosen Child’? I play Lee Bailey, the stepmother. Some would say, the evil stepmother. What have you learned while creating this role? Wow. I wish I even had words to say. I think I could more readily say I’ve grown, than learned, but I’ve definitely learned as well. I am […]
And that’s the way it was: Walter Cronkite on Apollo 8
In Chosen Child, half siblings Donna and David bond over their mutual passion for space exploration when they meet for the first time. Check out this footage from 1968 — the first of several parts — of CBS News’ Walter Cronkite reporting on Apollo 8, the first mission to orbit the moon. And don’t miss […]