Intermission » Theatre

Lilly on the Confidence Required

Intermission — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:00:53 +0000

Some kind of confidence, even fake, is needed for any work, but it is particularly required in the theatre, where ordinary timidity and stumbling seem like disintegration, and are infectious and corruptive to other frightened people.

Pentimento
by Lillian Hellman
p.506-507, IBSN 9780316355117

A Playwright Was Born This Day

Intermission — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 11:06:40 +0000

Clare Boothe Luce
April 10, 1903
New York, New York, USA

…I was afraid that if a new production went badly, the play would be officially buried. But it seems to have more vitality than I thought. Some things don’t change: People still have affairs; divorces still hurt; there are still women who lead empty, idle lives. I’m an old theatre girl, and I’m keeping my fingers crossed.

Clare Boothe Luce
April 22, 1973
On Harry, and Henry and Ike and Mr. Shaw
By Martha Weinman Lear
New York Times

April: Prayer of Gratitude

Intermission — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:00:42 +0000

For those of you joining us on the teleconference: You uplift us with your presence, and we thank you for participating!

Listen to the April 13th OMCCB Meditation: Gratitude Prayer

The meditation is hosted on a rotating basis. We don’t know in advance what the other will present. Each meditation is new and a surprise to us all.

If you’d like to join the live broadcast, we invite you to signup for the remaining meditations. It’s free and it’s fun!

Still Time To Sign-Up for Tomorrow’s OMCCB

Intermission — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:07:17 +0000

To receive the telephone instructions for the Jan 12 One Minute Creative Coffee Break Meditation, please click here to sign-up.

This is a hosted event and your participation is merely to be, well, present.

Come on, no one will even know you’re there. Surprise yourself!

Our meditation is intended in the classical sense as

a spoken or written discourse treated in a contemplative manner and intended to express its author’s reflections.
from the Merriam-Webster

The idea of the OMCCB Meditation is to focus, if only for a minute once a month, our collective minds upon a higher thought about Art and Entertainment.

Northern Writes: A new play festival in Bangor, Maine

Intermission — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:38:50 +0000

I’ve been traveling, and managed to see a great play in Maine, written by a friend of mine.

For the 2nd year in a row, Penobscot Theatre ended its season with its Northern Writes: A New Play Festival. For two weeks, this year’s festival included 23 plays, some short, some long. (In 2007 Penobscot staged 22 plays.) The plays are presented as concert stand readings, each with at least one rehearsal. A small number of plays are given a week’s rehearsal, and some simple staging. All plays feature an audience talk back with the cast, and the playwright. This year, all but two playwrights made their way to Maine for the talk back sessions. That’s a long way for a lot of us! The professionalism and quality of the theatre makes the trip worth taking.

Penobscot’s home is the former Bangor Opera House. It’s new, enthusiastic, risk-taking Artistic Director, Scott Levy, has broken the theatre’s box office records twice in the short time he’s been at the helm. Penobscot Theatre may be on its way to becoming an important force in the theatrical community. Keep watching. And get to Maine if you can. Maine is a great place to vacation. Bangor is some 40+ miles from Acadia National Park, one of the most heavenly places I’ve ever been to.

Playwrights note: No submission fee. Deadline to get your plays in is Feb 14, 2009.