Animal. Bigger than a breadbox. À propos de rien.
I taught improvisational acting for a few years at our local community college. It’s simple to learn the basic concepts of improv, but much harder to actually master it. I’m certain I never did, but I could improvise well enough to be able to teach others how to do it. The main rule of improv […]
and it wasn’t Sgt. Pepper teaching the band to play, but Prof. Harold Hill. Sometime during the week before February 27, 2001, I was leafing through the Port Huron Times Herald and saw that a local community theater group was going to hold auditions for The Music Man, one of my favorite musicals. I did […]
Lawrence Ferlinghetti died on Monday at the age of 101. He was a wonderful poet in his own right, but was probably better known as the long-time proprietor of City Lights, a bookstore located in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco that was the heart of the Beat Generation’s writers and thinkers in the […]
Sometimes we work toward a goal, knowing what we want and devoting our efforts toward achieving it. Other times opportunities are presented unexpectedly, and if we take the chance it might change the course of your life. David Korff, who died on January 20, provided that opportunity to me in late 2008. David was the […]
I used to teach acting at a community college. The department where I taught was called “visual and performing arts.” The performing arts were vocal and instrumental music, dance, and theater. While “performing arts” is no doubt an accurate description of what happens when the artist is in front of an audience, I prefer to […]
