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The Key to Streetcar Named Desire is Stella, and Don’t Let Anyone Tell You Different: A Review of Who Am I This Time? (1982)

Posted on October 24, 2012 by sheila

A re-post, because I’ve got love and theatre on the brain. Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit That from her … Continue reading →

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Jennifer McCabe on Acting: “Bring Yourself.”

Posted on March 8, 2012 by sheila

Jennifer McCabe I met Jennifer McCabe in 1995 when we both were grad students at the Actors’ Studio MFA Program in Manhattan. We became friends, of a sort, during our 9 a.m. dance classes at the Alvin Ailey Dance Studio … Continue reading →

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The Books: Accidentally on Purpose: Reflections on Life, Acting and the Nine Natural Laws of Creativity, by John Strasberg

Posted on November 20, 2011 by sheila

Daily Book Excerpt: Theatre Next book on the acting/theatre shelf is the classic Accidentally on Purpose: Reflections on Life, Acting and the Nine Natural Laws of Creativity, by John Strasberg I took an intense acting workshop with John Strasberg, son … Continue reading →

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Today in history: March 26, 1914

Posted on March 26, 2010 by sheila

Tennessee Williams (Thomas Lanier Williams) was born in Columbus, Mississippi. Will you do a total stranger the kindness of reading his verse? Thank you! Thomas Lanier Williams — Tennessee Williams, letter to editor Harriet Monroe, March 11, 1933 “You’re always … Continue reading →

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“a fatally mistaken premise”

Posted on March 8, 2010 by sheila

Now I like Thornton Wilder a lot (not only because of Our Town and all the others, but because of this anecdote – which should be memorized by every actor/director planning on doing Our Town, because THAT is the key … Continue reading →

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Today in history: December 3, 1947

Posted on December 3, 2009 by sheila

A Streetcar Named Desire opened in New York at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. Scene 5, Streetcar Named Desire BLANCHE: Young man! Young, young, young man! Has anyone ever told you that you look like a young Prince out of the … Continue reading →

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Blanche Dubois and the Code

Posted on October 28, 2009 by sheila

Wonderful post from Jose about Blanche’s monologue about her husband (“he was a boy”) in Streetcar, and how it had to be made much less explicit (meaning: not explicit at all) in the film version, due to the Production Code. … Continue reading →

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Great Mad Women in Cinema

Posted on October 11, 2009 by sheila

Some of these women probably would not qualify for a diagnosis from the psychiatric profession. And perhaps their madness is actually a heightened level of sanity, as is often the case. Nevertheless, they are mad. Wonderfully mad.

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Happy Birthday, Tennessee Williams

Posted on March 26, 2008 by sheila

Will you do a total stranger the kindness of reading his verse? Thank you! Thomas Lanier Williams — Tennessee Williams, letter to editor Harriet Monroe, March 11, 1933 “You’re always having to compete with yourself. They always say, ‘It’s not … Continue reading →

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Specifics About Performances

Posted on November 26, 2005 by sheila

Alex has up a really nice post right now, praising my observations about Bud White and Russell Crowe in that role. She writes: “I love people that notice the little things about actors.” Speaking of noticing specific little things about … Continue reading →

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