Hiatus
A Poor Player will take a week’s hiatus for vacation. Postings will resume around July 25th. There will be much catching up to do at that point, I am sure. -twl
Love Laborious
I arrived back from taking my son to NIU for orientation this past Tuesday. The trip itself was fairly uneventful. On the way we took in a show at the Porthouse Theatre in Cuyahoga Falls OH, where my ASC buddy Chris Seiler was playing Editor Webb in Our Town (review below), and Olivia Braza was also visiting. There is certainly a great deal of construction over in Chicago, most of which we managed to find traveling in either direction. Courses were selected, and we had a great talk with Alex Gelman, director of the School of Theatre at NIU. I also took Eric for a tour of the Illinois countryside, with its miles of corn, soybeans, straight roads and open skies. On the way back we visited another ASC colleague, Alyssa Wilmoth, who is working at the Ramada Wagon Wheel Theatre in Warsaw, IN, currently doing Seussical with Thoroughly Modern Millie and Steel Magnolias to follow. Chris, Olivia and Alyssa are all heading for New York City in the fall, so I gain a lot of new places to stay when I head down to the city. Continue Reading »
