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ArtsLink: Lessons Learned from Musical Theater Icon

Posted on June 12, 2020

Everyone has a favorite Sondheim musical, or at least they should.   Stephen Sondheim is one of the t...

ArtsLink: Facing Difficulty of Contributing to Current Conversation when There is Nothing Left to be Said

Posted on June 04, 2020

I don’t know how to contribute to the current conversation because I don’t know what is left to say. ...

ArtsLink: Lost Art to Come from a Probable Lost Art and a Mentor Still Teaching, Leading to Find it Again

Posted on May 28, 2020

The best of us have figured out a way to be lifelong learners and teachers simultaneously.   Nineteen...

ArtsLink: Life of Cyclical Risking and Failing, Winning and Losing, Learning and Growing ... and Falling

Posted on May 21, 2020

During my college theatre years I fell down a lot…literally…   It was the second perfor...

ArtsLink: Why the Possibility of Losing a Generation of Artists Amdist COVID-19 Pandemic Could be Real

Posted on May 14, 2020

Time for some real talk.    Let me begin by saying that the views and opinions expressed in this...

ArtsLink: Like World of Arts, Why it's Important in Our Current Gloomy Times to be Sure to Find Your Light

Posted on May 07, 2020

Find your light!    You will hear these words quite a lot if you happen to wander into a darkene...

ArtsLink: For those Who Act, Entertain, Coronavirus Pandemic Leads to Rabbit Hole Featuring "What Ifs"

Posted on April 30, 2020

What if…   What if I told you that those two simple words make up the foundation for the syste...

ArtsLink: Happy 456th Birthday William Shakespeare

Posted on April 23, 2020

William Shakespeare turns 456 years old today.    I am a professed Bardolator, which is one who...

ArtsLink: Power of Pause on Stage and Parallels to a Pause and its Impact in the Current Situation We Face

Posted on April 16, 2020

There can be great power in the pause.    Actors and directors use different words to describe i...

Artslink: The Possibility of the Next Renaissance

Posted on April 09, 2020

I am hopeful that history could repeat itself.    Between the 14th and the 15th centuries, a ser...

ArtsLink: The Life of Terrence McNally and Proof that Theatre and the Arts Offers More Than Entertainment

Posted on April 01, 2020

Terrence McNally has passed away.   I understand that most of you engaging with this blog probably have no id...

ArtsLink: Connie, the Bridgeport Stage Crafters and Why Words Can be More Valuable than Money

Posted on June 01, 2013

I hate money.    I hate what people will do to acquire it. I hate not having it. I hate how not...

ArtsLink: Thoughts on 3-Year Anniversary of Upper Big Branch Disaster Shaped by Farmington Disaster of '68

Posted on April 05, 2013

The last theatre project that I was involved in at college was an ethnographic research based original play based upon...

ArtsLink: BOE Vote Proves Grandma Was Right - With Arts, "You Can't Get There from Here"

Posted on April 01, 2013

My grandmother had some crazy expressions.   She was a remarkable woman that I got...

ArtsLink: Something's Coming ... Something Good

Posted on February 02, 2013

I was afraid I had lost Art!   You see, in the summer of 2002, I was living in the College Park Apartment...
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