The Design Team
With the script under control, now Lauren needed to recruit a team to make the show come to life. Lauren met with costumer Mary Swerens to describe her ideas for how to easily morph the human characters into the dream…
AUDITION NOTICE: Father Brown
Father Brown by Patrick RiegerAdapted from stories in The Innocence of Father Brown by G.K. ChestertonPresented by all for One productions at the PPG Artslab September 20 -29, 2024 AUDITIONS WHEN: Monday, May 13 at 7:00 PM with call backs on…
A New Collaboration is Born
This play originated over two years ago with a casual conversation between two friends: one, a father-to-be, mentioned that he was practicing his “Pooh” voice so that he could read to his baby the stories beloved by his wife; the…
2024-2025 Season Announcement!
London is once again confounded by the notorious thief, Flambeau. Scotland Yard detectives team with an unlikely ally: the humble and unassuming priest, Father Brown. Patrick Rieger’s faithful adaptation weaves together four of author G.K. Chesterton’s beloved mystery stories, which…
A Unique Partnership
A.A. Milne and his illustrator, Ernest Shepherd, were both veterans of WWI and met through working with the magazine Punch after the war. Shepherd was hired by Methuen Books to illustrate Milne’s first book of poems, When We Were Very…
About the origins and creator of Pooh
In 1914, Harry Coleburn, a veterinary surgeon, was traveling with the Fort Garry Cavalry unit from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada to Great Britain, to prepare to fight in World War I. Getting off the train to stretch his legs at a…
My Life as a Theatre Director, part 2
by Lauren E. Nichols Read Part 1 here Just months later, in the spring of 2005, I found myself in the director’s seat once more. This time, the play was one I discovered and fell in love with: William Gibson’s…
Audition Notice: Winnie-the-Pooh: a dream of honey
Winnie-the-Pooh: A Dream of Honeyadapted from the A.A. Milne stories by Lauren E. Nichols To be presented in the PPG ArtsLab Black BoxApril 19-21 & 26-28, 2024 WHEN: Tuesday, October 24, 2023, 7:00 PMWHERE: afO offices, 2310 Weisser Park AvenueWHO: …
The TEMP: an origin story
by Michael Wilhelm “You’ll never work in this town again.” That’s what they tell you in Hollywood if you don’t quite live up to their expectations. The truth is, there are all sorts of interesting jobs in that town. An…