Creating Culture: Monica Mercer
Time is flying by and, unbelievably, we are in the last week of November! It has been wonderful sharing these stories with you, and seeing how all for One has an impact on the lives of those we work with…
Creating Culture: Anna Macke
Impacting our culture starts small. It starts with impacting individuals. all for One seeks to intentionally build relationships with the people who work with us. We take time at the beginning of every rehearsal to spend as a group, sharing…
Return to a Little House…
A year ago when we decided it was time to reprise one of the most popular shows we've ever produced, that was our only motivation: the combination of Laura Ingalls Wilder and Christmas had been irresistible to our audiences in…
Phoebe Weems Retrospective
We opened our 2020-2021 season with our first ever virtual performance, a world premiere of Michael Wilhelm's comedy-drama, The Dreadful Journal of Phoebe Weems. As we navigate the challenges of live performance during a time of pandemic worries, we are…
The Play’s Afoot! Our Season Opener 2019-2020
Sherlock Holmes and the 1st Baker Street Irregular is a new play by Brian Guehring which incorporates several of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s short stories about the famous detective, and weaves in an original story about how Holmes came to employ…
Dramaturgy: An Ideal Husband
I realize this is after-the-fact, but I wanted to include our thoughts on this production here, for the edification of other theaters who may want to produce this work.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish-born poet, novelist and playwright, best known for his daring psychological thriller/morality tale, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his hilarious but insubstantial comedy play, The Importance of Being Earnest.
Wilde is widely acknowledged to have had a genius intellect. He spoke and read several languages and took double first class honors at Oxford (roughly equivalent to earning two simultaneous bachelor’s degrees, magna cum laude). He read widely and deeply, and loved the Classics, especially Greek literature. He also exhibited a lifelong fascination with the Catholic Church, read the Bible and St. Augustine while in jail, and requested a priest to administer Last Rites on his death bed.
Introducing “Edward Tulane”
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane is a gorgeous stage adaptation by Dwayne Hartford of Kate DiCamillo’s children’s novel. DiCamillo is the award-winning author of such diverse books as Because of Winn Dixie, The Tale of Despereaux and Flora and Ulysses.
The plot of …Edward Tulane is fairly simple: a china rabbit is separated from his owner, and is found in turn by: a fisherman and his wife, a hobo and his dog, and a poverty-stricken little boy and his dying sister. The premise of the story is a bit harder to articulate.
An Ideal Husband is ideal comedy
An Ideal Husband (February 22 – 24 and March 1 – 3, 2019) Oscar Wilde’s warm and witty romantic comedy is the perfect antidote to our cold winter blahs! Sir Robert Chiltern is a paragon of public and private virtue,…
Composing A CHRISTMAS CAROL
At the age of 31, Charles Dickens had already lived through several reversals of fortune and circumstance: from an idyllic early childhood, to the trauma of separation from his family, to a tentative career in journalism, to the triumphant reception…