I love doing tableau work with kids because it's a fun, easy way to get them up on their feet and creating quickly. Tableau vivante (or, frozen picture) is where kids use their bodies to create, as it says, a frozen picture. Tableau may not use movement or words -- just your body and your imagination. …
"I think in any form of acting, you're well served if you've done theatre." - Jim Parsons, Emmy & Golden Globe Award-winning actor (The Big Bang Theory)
Sometimes when you're strapped for inspiration (and you're blogging late at night), it's fun to complete a tag questionnaire! This one comes via Theatre Girl. I did another one back in November about musical theatre. Completing a tag questionnaire could be a "great getting to know you" game with a new cast! Or, you could answer …
I'm sure you've heard the expression "There are no small parts, only small actors" before. We often tell this to young actors who have received their role in a show, counted their lines (ugh!) and have discovered that their friend has 36 lines while they only have 4. They truly have a small part. If …
In case you hadn't heard, I'm directing Nancy Drew: Girl Detective this season at Original Kids Theatre Company! Rehearsals have been going swimmingly; we have the entire show blocked, and off-book day is coming up on Saturday! (For those of you who don't know that term, that's the day that all the actors have to …