Check out this video – a time lapse video of the set up of the set of Clybourne Park on Broadway. It takes a lot of people to make the show happen – and even more than are in this video (those pieces being assembled were constructed somewhere before being installed).
Mayfair Affair — Production Pictures
Hey , check out our production pictures from the Mayfair Affair. If you would like to purchase prints or downloads from this production CLICK HERE.
Thank you Merianne Dietrich Photography!
tags: Acting, Belhaven, Mayfair Affair, Performance, pictures, Productions, student, Students, Theatre
The Mayfair Affair closes
Congratulations to the cast and crew of The Mayfair Affair on a great run!
Look for production photos to be posted on our blog very soon.
category: Uncategorized
Congratulations!
Belhaven theatre major Anna Rebmann has won first place in the Southern Literary Festival one-act play competition!
Anna’s play, Opening the Past, was produced as part of the 6th Annual Evening of One Acts this past fall at Belhaven.
category: Playwriting, Students
The Mayfair Affair opening
A fantastic opening night last night for The Mayfair Affair – a new farce by Joseph Frost.
Our production is the premiere workshop of this play, which will continue rewrites after the show closes – the Belhaven audience response will help to reshape the play! Frost and director John Maxwell worked through several drafts of the play before the production and made adjustments to the scenes and dialogue through rehearsals – a challenge for the student actors, which they met admirably.
Mayfair Affair has 7 more performancesFeb 24, 25, 29, Mar 1 & 2 at 7:30 and Saturday matinees on Feb 25 and Mar 3 at 2 pm.
category: Productions
Artist-in-Residence… at a cathedral?
Award-winning actress and solo performer Anna Deavere Smith has taken on the task of being the first Artist-in-Residence at San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral. Smith is known for creating powerful solo performances through doing extensive interviews in research, then assemble a performance of direct quotations from those interviews, taking on the character of the interviewees.
What a great opportunity for the church at large to look at another way that artists can interact with the life of a congregation.
NY Times Article
Opera training?
In a recent interview with NPR’s Fresh Aire, actress Meryl Streep discussed the value of opera training she received in her youth, and how it has helped her with her work today, which has been lauded specifically for her ability with accents and vocal transformations. Check out the LA Times article here.
Autism-friendly performance of Broadway shows
A couple of Broadway productions (Lion King, Mary Poppins) are being sponsored by the Theatre Development Fund (TDF, the organization that runs the discount TKTS booth for Broadway shows) to have performances specifically tailored to be more accessible to audience members with Autism – less harsh sound effects and strobe lighting. Read more about it in this Backstage article.
category: articles
“How Theatre Artists become Essential”
Ron Russell, co-founder and Executive Director of New York’s Epic Theatre Ensemble wrote a two part essay titled “How Theatre Artists become Essential”
Religious Art… made by the non-religious
Terry Teachout wrote an interesting article for the Wall Street Journal discussing the ability of non-believers to create some of the most significant religious art – specifically visual art and music (much of the 20th century literature, he noted, came from people of religious conviction). Lots to consider.
category: articles, Playwriting
