R.I.P. Madison Rep
Dunkirk NY – In cruising the theatre blogs this evening after writing the previous post and while watching USA-Venezuela, I came across the depressing news that Madison Repertory Theatre in Madison WI is closing shop. It’s depressing to me because in my days with the also-defunct Wisconsin Shakespeare Festival I met and worked with many of the fine actors who made that place a theatrical marvel. Mark Lazar, Mark Herold, Laurie Birmingham, Elaine Lazar, Lee Ernst, Laura Gordon and so many others under the original artistic direction of Joe Hanreddy (now AD of Milwaukee Rep) did so much good work there. Another story of going $500K in debt. Very sad. -twl
Conference Workshops? Not!
Dunkirk NY
“Birmingham Birmingham
Greatest city in Alabam
You can travel ‘cross this entire land
There ain’t no place like Birmingham” -Randy Newman
Well, it’s back from the SETC Conference. With the change in time, I’ve actually lost two hours today; one from the change to Daylight Savings Time, and one from going from the Central back to the Eastern Time Zone. But I have to get this post up before I go into serious rehearsals for Romeo and Juliet starting tomorrow.
The Prof and I had a wonderful day yesterday getting our fill of downtown Birmingham. Actually, it began on Friday night when we went to the Five Point district to grab some Thai food. Five Points is a very nice entertainment district that has a number of restaurants, night life hot spots, coffeehouses, and panhandlers. Considering that it is in the neighborhood of the University of Alabama-Birmingham, no doubt there is a lot of college nightlife going on in the district. I was amazed, as Scott drove me back to my hotel, to find ourselves in a lot of traffic on the interstates. Things were very very busy.
