Well tonight we open the Advanced Directing Festival: Direct Effect! I am in Katie’s show, Baby With the Bathwater. It is a really awkward play, but I think it will be really fun and the audience will get a kick out of it. Since there are two other plays in this festival that needed the [...]

WOW! Last night we went to see a performance of Rain Pan 43 at the Studio Theatre. I am never so cliche as to say that a play almost had me “rolling on the floor with laughter…” but this performance got me as close as it can get. If I had been near an aisle [...]

Last Wednesday, April 9th, our class went to see “Death of A Salesman” at Arena’s temporary location in Chrystal City. It was great getting to see the new stage they are working on, although the flat nature of the set design did not lend itself to well to the production in my opinion. The only [...]

On Sunday, April 6, our Ideas in Performance class went to see Stunning at Woolly Mammoth Theatre. I had a few mixed feelings and emotions about this show, but overall the effect on me was strong, so I believe it was a good show. I did not know what to expect when I sat down [...]

Well, it’s that time of the semester where you are entering the long haul, where even though a break is so near in sight, the days begin to go by slower and slower… and your pile of work keeps getting higher and higher. The fact that it has been more than 3 weeks since my [...]

I’d like to just mention 10 things that I chose off of Gregg’s NYC blog, where he made a list of so many good things to do around the city including places to eat, places to shop,  theatres to look at, etc. I’d like to reflect on each one a little bit.
* First off, I did what I was [...]

Sunday, March 9th: Our last afternoon in New York City. Gregg took the whole class out to a pizza lunch, which was nice to be together as a group to celebrate a great week in the city. After brunch we saw one of the funniest shows I have ever seen, Is He Dead? at the Lyceum [...]

On the afternoon of Friday, March 7th Gregg held an interview with Natalie Joy Johnson, the UMW alum who is now a principle actor in Broadway’s Legally Blonde: The Musical. A group of us went in to hear the complete story of her journey taking us from her senior year at UMW to the present. [...]

Today, Saturday March 8th marked our last full day in New York City this spring break… I felt really sad about this all day. This trip has been almost overwhelmingly amazing. But in a way, I am ready to go back and get back to everything I have going on in Fredericksburg. Mainly, I will [...]