Joseph Frost
Chair of Theatre, Associate Professor. MFA in Script and Screen Writing, MA in Theatre Acting/Directing from Regent University. Married to Shannon, three children (Nina, Darby, and Emory)
What makes the live experience…
A very nice Wall Street Journal article about the unique quality of the live experience – sometimes, it’s in the spontaneous response of the audience…
category: articles
A good review…
Alumni Scott Gaines (’11, B.A. Theatre Performance) recently appeared in the We Happy Few production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest in the Metro DC area. The review of the production contained the following comment: “Britt Duff’s Miranda was interesting, and a take on the character that I found unexpected. Duff’s chemistry with Scott Gaines’s Ferdinand is [...]
category: Alumni
Preparing The Drunkard!
With the opening of the show this week, we wanted to share a couple of photos of the construction work in process… And a few of the work in the costume shop… We’ve put a lot of time and energy into the preparation of this show, and we can’t wait to [...]
category: Productions, Students
Brand New Lighting Grid – installation in progress
We are pleased to announce that over this Christmas season, we have been overseeing the installation of a new lighting grid – a significant investment in the safety and ease of work for our lighting crews and future productions. Check out Inter-America Stage’s website and see a video on their SkyDeck system. Crews continue to [...]
Video: 1960′s Stagehands
Here’s the link to a great documentary video from the 1960′s talking about being a stagehand. 50 years later, it’s surprising how similar it is to today – especially with larger productions touring the United States (the film shows people working on the original tour of My Fair Lady). We often talk about how many [...]
tags: stagehands, video
Chekhov – served three ways
In contrast to the article on authorial intent and protecting the playwright’s vision that I previously posted, this article in the Guardian talks about 3 different productions of Chekhov plays being performed in London – each with a unique vision of what it means to attempt to communicate what the playwright had in mind: One [...]
Playwright’s intentions defended
Two recent articles spoke of the issue of playwrights defending their intentions in production. Australia’s Belvoir theatre company based in Sydney has, over the years, faced a number of cases of opposition from playwrights (or their estates/ rights holders) over their re-interpretive productions of plays. The recent article talks of their cutting of the Requiem [...]
category: articles, Playwriting
Translation: Novel into Film
David Mitchell, author of the novel Cloud Atlas, wrote a very clear article in the Wall Street Journal this week on the necessity of translation in adapting a novel into a film – and talking about how his novel pushes the limits of what’s possible to portray on the screen. If you’re wondering why “the [...]
category: articles
Other Careers in Entertainment: Cue-Card Guy
A nice article in, of all places, the Wall Street Journal about Wally Feresten, the cue card guy for Saturday Night Live. It involves performance, writing, timing, rehearsal, and excellent penmanship. It takes a lot of people to make a performance happen – many more than you see on the stage and screen…
category: articles
