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Michael Sheen performing 'Do not go gentle into that good night' is everything you'd hope it to be #DylanThomasDay

Interested in learning about directing? Join us at 3:30pm PDT for an all-new episode of Creative Youth Studio! Your hosts Katrina Heil, Jada Jackson, Imahni ...King, and Emily Talerman will dive into theatre directing with Mexican American artist José Hurtado and acclaimed director Patricia McGregor! https://youtu.be/1a8rsxi4cYI José Hugo Hurtado is a Mexican American, multidisciplinary artist currently studying at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts’s Experimental Theatre Wing. His directing experience includes The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (NYU’s Latinx Artist Collective), Ubu Rock (NYU’s New Studio on Broadway), Bad Hombres and Good Wives (NYU Theatre 104), A Winter’s Tale (The Old Globe), and various projects in Playwrights Horizons Theatre School. His notable acting credits include Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Orsini in Twelfth Night (The Old Globe’s Pam Farr Summer Shakespeare Studio). He also appeared in the workshop of Tell Me If I’m Hurting You by Jeremy O. Harris (Playwrights Horizons). Completing a drama major, with a double minor in producing and dance, Hurtado aims to make theatre, or any artistic medium and practice, more accessible to lower-income communities, as he believes the arts truly do make a difference. [email protected]. Para mi familia, siempre. Patricia McGregor is an acclaimed director and writer from St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. Her directing credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Measure for Measure (The Old Globe’s Globe for All Tour), Lights Out: Nat King Cole (also book) and Skeleton Crew (Geffen Playhouse), Place (Brooklyn Academy of Music), Good Grief (Center Theatre Group), The Parchman Hour (Guthrie Theater), Hamlet (The Public Theater), Ugly Lies the Bone (Roundabout Theatre Company), A Raisin in the Sun, The Winter’s Tale, and Spunk (California Shakespeare Theater), and Hurt Village (Signature Theatre Company). For several years Ms. McGregor directed The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway. Additionally, she was consultant for J. Cole’s 4 Your Eyez Only tour. She is a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow and a New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect. She is also the co-founder of Angela’s Purse and with her artist/activist sister Paloma McGregor, and she was Artistic Director of Yale Cabaret.

"It concerns me, " I told Brando, "that I am incapable of understanding or enduring life--or other people--without imagining them in some sort of play or film t...hat I happen to be stuck in." "You should be concerned," he replied, "but what makes you think you're unique? I don't think most people can face life squarely as it is. That would be grim. We're walking in some sort of fantasy to get by, to get through. The ones who face life dead straight, no color, no light, no shift of reality--they're the crazy ones. Life isn't livable until you distort it to your fantasy. To show up without a fantasy would be worse than showing up without bathing."Marlon Brando to James Grissom.

Brandon Burton joins Emmy Award winners Eric McCormack and Mary-Louise Parker in a livestream of the Obie Award-winning play by Paula Vogel.

Al Pacino on acting schools... Of course, you go to acting school, and the best school is the school where you go and do a scene with somebody in front of people. That’s the experience. And the more you can do that, I think the more you can understand that that’s what we do. We act in front of an audience, and how do you do that? That takes a certain amount of commitment. So if you can get into an acting class or school, that’s good. [One] that isn’t too expensive. Something that allows you to participate and be a part of a community, whatever the community is. You see you’re not alone as an actor. https://www.backstage.com//acting-school-advice-al-pacin/

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Plays that focus historical and/or strong women characters.

"Everyone will tell you WHAT you're doing, but only you can tell us WHY you're doing it. The why is what distinguishes your work."-Martha Graham #FolliesOfGod

"I feel we all should give what we can when we can. I think it's how the world operates best. I don't regret anything I've given, but I do find it a bit odd--sa...d--that most of the money people have given to causes is to protect people from other people. I added it up one day, and my money has gone mostly to cancer and cruelty. A disease that destroys people and people who destroy other people."--Paul Newman/ Interview with James Grissom/1993 See more