Why Do I Act Like That?
Being home for the holidays is an excellent opportunity for you to examine how your family’s dynamics have shaped your personality. If you’re an actor, you can use the experiences to grow your awareness of human nature and, of course, apply it to your creative work.
Inside PSYCHONAUT LIBRARIANS Part Two: The Tired Rule
In this 4-part feature, PerformInk continues its INSIDE series and takes you behind the scenes of The New Colony’s production of PSYCHONAUT LIBRARIANS through blog posts written by the people behind the scenes.
Spiel Chicago Episode 12: Not In Our House
In June of 2015, actress Lori Myers heard–for the fourth time in two months–a story from yet another colleague about extreme abuses of power in the Chicago theater community. Frustrated, she posted a now infamous Facebook post asking, “If your friend, sister, daughter, or co-worker was working under a sexual predator—what would you do about it?”
The Benefits of Vocal Training
As an actor, you’ve spent countless hours studying Stanislavski, Meisner technique, and Shakespeare. And, of course, if you’re a dancer, you’re extremely well-versed in ballet, tap and modern dance. Have you spent much time investing in your singing voice?
Inside PSYCHONAUT LIBRARIANS Part One: Welcome to PSY LI
I would like to share this story with you. And if that title isn’t enough to grab you, let me try a little harder.
Race and Representation Among Decision-Makers in Chicago Theater
Diversity on Chicago’s stages has been the hot button issue in 2016. But, as Lavina Jadhwani observes, “Casting is the symptom, not the root problem.”
Spiel Chicago Episode 11: Kara Tesch
This week, Smyra talks with longtime friend and talented costume craftsperson, Kara Tesch.
Hamilton Shows Its Power to Pence – 8 Thoughts
VIEW FROM THE MEZZANINE PerformInk Publisher Jason Epperson’s take on the business and life of producing theater. In case you missed it … Vice-President Elect Mike Pence was booed before Friday night’s Broadway performance of HAMILTON by the audience. During several moments relevant to our current political discourse, the actors...
Inside CINDERELLA AT THE THEATRE OF POTATOES Part 4: Choreography
In this 4-part feature, PerformInk continues its INSIDE series and takes you behind the scenes of The Hypocrites production of CINDERELLA AT THE THEATRE OF POTATOES through blog posts written by the people behind the scenes. Part 4 By Breon Arzell, Choreographer This is no longer the show it once was....
Integrating the Unthinkable: How to Respond to Election 2016
“This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”
-Toni Morrison