I'm a confirmed theater bum. For over 17 years I've spent most of my weekends (and a lot of evenings) working with a community theater company here in Athens. Click on a title in the list further down this page to see some pictures and/or deepthink about productions I've taken part in.

  • Town & Gown's 2008-9 season is well under way. Tom's production of Moon Over Buffalo started things off, quite a good farce by Ken Ludwig.
  • I go next with Tom Stoppard's comedy Arcadia. As I write this, rehearsals are well under way and the set is largely built.
  • Cabaret follows after the holidays, in a production helmed by Justin. Next Steven directs Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, which will have broad appeal.
  • In late spring, Fran presents Neil Simon's farce Fools. The Mainstage season concludes with Amy's production of Company.
  • People get confused by the name "Second Stage." To be explicit: There is just one stage. The series presents up to five challenging productions, beginning this year with a comedy called Meanwhile, Back at the Super Lair. Superheroes were thick on the ground in Steven's production.

Beyond the local scene:

  • Theater links: I've collected lots of addresses for theater companies, suppliers and other sites of interest.
  • Finding scripts: Here you can get links to publishers and rights houses for straight plays and musicals. I can also suggest strategies for locating low-royalty plays.
  • Shakespeare: It turns out the web is a terrific resource for productions of classic scripts.
  • Amateur Theater Division: These pages
    • offer some good how-to stuff
    • tell how our motto was adopted
    • list my own production credits
    • and introduce my design aides Scaleboy® and Scalemaid®.
  • Town & Gown Players: "My" community theater company maintains a fast-changing web site offering lots of information about performances, auditions and so forth. Our newsletter, The Envoy, is available online too. Eric the webmaster is now introducing Wiki technology to the site, which should make the pages change even faster.
  • My own Town & Gown pages: By not throwing things away, I've accumulated a lot of data about the company's history, plans for its fiftieth anniversary, the space it occupies, and some artifacts.

Now here are those links to production pages, latest season first.

  
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