From October 1 thru 5, 2012, Round House Theatre will host the workshop of a new play that’s being developed based on the popular PostSecret website. Frank Warren, creator and curator of PostSecret where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard, is working with a creative team to bring the [...]
Regardless of one’s politics, the domestic consequences of simultaneously fighting two extended ground wars are harrowing. Hundreds of thousands of families have been forced to endure extended periods of time without their closest loves ones: men and women without their spouses, children without their parents, mothers and fathers without their sons and daughters – all [...]
Three years ago, playwrights Emily Ackerman and KJ Sanchez began interviewing service men and women returning from and preparing for deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq. Emily and KJ are both sisters of veterans: KJ has five brothers who served in the military during the Vietnam War and Emily has two brothers (USMC) who have served [...]
Directors are often asked to supply notes such as the one you’ve just begun reading. It’s an opportunity for me, the director, to focus you, the audience, on those aspects of the play that I would like to call your attention to. The irony is that, if I’ve done my job well, there should be [...]
The Trip to Bountiful remains one of my all time favorite plays, and has been on my director’s wish list for some time. Over the years I’ve had the great blessing of working with the preeminent African-American actress Lizan Mitchell, for who, like many artists of her talent, experience, and maturity, challenging roles are far [...]
The first time I met with the Sarah Play production team and began to look at the script, my mentor, Rachel Schuldenfrei (Round House’s Costume Shop Manager), told me “Don’t even THINK about clothes or costumes”. Not the advice you’d expect from your costume design mentor… But, obviously, she knew what she was talking about. [...]
Gather around everybody, I am going to tell you of the first rehearsal of the 2011 Sarah Play, Androcles and the Lion. It started off like anything does ‑ with people arriving. Those people were delighted to find some glorious food items waiting to be eaten by them. A significant portion of this food was [...]
The 2011 Sarah Play director, Kari Barclay (junior, Richard Montgomery High), discusses the audition process: Last month, we held actor auditions for the show. The whole process was an absolute blast, and I LOVED the group of teens that came out to audition. To quote Danisha, my directing mentor, this is the perhaps the strongest [...]
Hello, my name is Amy Vallis! I am a junior at School Without Walls and I am the stage manager for the 2010-11 Sarah Play. Each year, Round House offers a program called The Sarah Metzger Memorial Play, a program which allows high schoolers to direct, design, and act in a full scale production mentored [...]
This has been a week of firsts: the first days of rehearsal for the first show of Round House’s new season, The Talented Mr. Ripley. It’s also my first experience as an assistant director working on a professional show. And, for an unapologetic English nerd such as myself, what better way to start out than [...]
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