Theater and Drama

Word on the street is that they are thinking of removing the arts from the schooling system… I'm sorry. WHAT?! Do my ears decieve me? JUST because it isn't considered 'academic'…? I'll tell you now, anyone who has trained in the arts knows just how important it is and how you can learn things even more useful than Pythagorus … Life skills!

This year there were three separate productions of Glengarry Glen Ross in the Bay Area meaning the play was running for four months straight: one production in San Francisco, one in Berkeley, and one in Alameda. I should say there was one ten day stretch where GGR wasn't playing, but there was also one ten day stretch wherein two were happening at the same time, 11 miles apart, so they sort of cancel each other out in my non-scientific mind. I wonder if both of those Ricky Romas were looking up at the same moon.

Rentals and classifieds for theaters in the US.

Reading and watching William Shakespeare's plays shouldn't make you feel stupid. But the 400 years between when they were written and today have put up barriers of culture and language that make it hard to read or watch them clean. People (alive and dead) are always telling you what to think about these plays instead of just letting you engage them yourself.

Legends and Worlds is a tool that allows authors to move beyond the final prose, and collaborate on concepts and ideas. Explore the events, characters, locations, and stories that make up the author's creative universes.

For those of you who are new to furniture painting. Here's a quick overview of the basic steps of furniture painting. Of course we can't cover everything here - but here's a start to finish flow chart!

"One of Shakespeare's best-loved comedies, Twelfth Night was 'blissfully reborn' (Telegraph) for the 2012/13 season at London's Globe Theatre, under the direction of Tim Carroll. The hilarious tale of misdirection and deception is performed here by an all-male cast, among whom we find Mark Rylance as Olivia and Roger Lloyd-Pack as Sir Anthony Aguecheek. The production also marks Stephen Fry's triumphant return to the stage as the pompous Malvolio, ridiculous in his yellow stockings."

"During the tour, a blood-making demonstration was given, and the Public has now offered us their special recipe. Save it for Halloween... or your own at-home Lear reenactments. "

"Below is American Theatre magazine's Top 10 Most-Produced Play list, as printed in AT's annual Season Preview issue in October, from 1994 to 2014. These numbers are as reported to TCG at press time by its member theatres nationwide."

"This sketch was performed on stage for an AIDS benefit concert directed by Stephen Fry on September 18, 1989. Rowan Atkinson's character is unnamed, but from the look of him, it seems he's a member of the Blackadder family. The other character, whom you will know, was played by Hugh Laurie."

From 1945 onwards, J Edgar Hoover's FBI spied on Camus and Sartre. The investigation soon turned into a philosophical inquiry.

Use this free tool to play nature sounds on headphones while reading or meditating or just for fun.

Not your average calculator site. While Calculate This! does provide standard calculators, there are even more calculators that you probably didn't know you even needed.

Online Voice Recorder is a free simple application which records sound from microphone. After recording you can trim the sound and save it to your computer.

This is a free service for playwrights and play readers.

What makes RBI so different is that Ron has a genuine curiosity about all of his guests. And there's no script; there's no agenda; there are no pre-written questions. Its just honest, real talk with incredibly talented and creative people about what they do, and how they do it. You can't find interviews like this anywhere else.

This website lets you put in measurements (like weight and height) and shows you what a person with those measurements might look like!

SHOT OF THE WTC IN 9/11/01 FROM THE NYU DORM

A group of women were slated to snooze in the central gallery of the National Art Museum of Ukraine this month, inviting worthy male suitors to try and wake the slumbering women with a single kiss. They're not under the spell of an evil witch or a poison apple however; instead, the ladies have been recruited to participate in an art exhibit appropriately titled "Sleeping Beauty."