Daily Rehearsal: Children on children’s theater
By Kate DriesDaily Rehearsal: Children on children’s theater
By Kate Dries1. The Sketch Comedy Festival line-up is here. It runs over two weekend between January 5 and 15th, and includes one day of comedy for the kids. They proclaim themselves to be “the largest sketch comedy festival America has ever seen.” If you go and feel clastrophobic, I guess they’ve succeeded.
2. Following up on the debates we’ve been having about cell phone use during performances, Washington Post readers agree that it’s rude to live tweet during a play, and that theaters shouldn’t allow that. 43 percent of readers said “People should be able to turn off their phones for two hours” and other 43 percent agreed, except for a different reason: “it’s just plain rude.”
4. More children: Hear from Shanequa Beal, an eighth grader currently starring in A Christmas Carol at the Goodman. She says she likes the play because she gets to work with kids her own age, and “surprisingly we all get along pretty well!” Additionally, the Goodman is probably glad Beal has some union backing her, with comments like these: “A Christmas Carol was not a piece of cake. It required a lot of hours of work, memorizing and tons energy! At one point we worked a 50 hour week. Yes, I was really tired and missed school often but it was totally worth it.”
5. The latest conversations about theater on the Talk Theatre in Chicago podcast include an interview with Timothy Edward Kane from An Iliad, and some insights into the Neo-Futurists Too Much Light with Bilal Dardai and Greg Allen.
Questions? Tips? Email kdries@wbez.org.