Drama and Theater in Schools: Living History Wax Museum

Celebrate National Reading Month at Your School with a Living History Wax Museum
In honor of Dr. Seuss, March has been declared National Reading Month. The NEA has instituted Read Across America, offering fun, educational activities for schools. Why not celebrate National Reading Month with a Living History Wax Museum?
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George Gershwin 'Porgy and Bess' and 'Summertime'

George and Ira Gershwin's Porgy and Bess and Summertime Coming to Grand Rapids Opera
George and Ira Gershwin gave us some of the best jazz songs and musical jazz operas. Gershwin's sizzling hot orgy and Bess, with its haunting song Summertime is coming to Grand Rapids Opera at Devos Hall, April 30 and May 1.
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Theater and Drama Tips: How to Audition with Stage Fright

Theater Audition Tips: Using Stage Fright, Adrenaline and Butterflies to Perform Better
Auditions make people nervous. Whether you are trying out for your first play or your 151st play, auditioning produces butterflies in the stomach. And that's good. Make stage fright part of your theater audition toolbox. Here's how ...
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1920's-1930's Costumes, Props, Setting for Edwardian Drama

Winter Wedding Themes
Written for a winter wedding theme, this piece contains useful advice for Edwardian theater, costumes from 1920-1930s or a murder mystery dinner theater. Costumes, lighting, props, decor.
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Medieval Times: Dinner Theater

Medieval Times Restaurant: Schaumberg, Illinois
Medieval Times is a dinner theater experience you'll enjoy! Kinda schmaltzy and not entirely period correct. Not the only or best of it's kind, but big and loud and something different. Still worth a visit! A review of Medieval Times in Schaumberg, Illinois, a Chicago suburb.
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10 Best World and Opera Singers

10 Best Singers Living Today
This is not a list of good singers. This is THE list of singers with heavenly voices. You listen to your music; I feel, live and breathe this music. You haven't heard music until you listen to these singers.
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How to Produce a Radio Play

How to Produce a Radio PlayRadio plays bring us back to the days when there weren't the visuals of television. Listeners relied upon their imagination and the talents of the 'actors' to produce the story in their minds. In this they must have been successful, because when H.G. Wells' radio play first aired on Halloween in the 1930's, it caused mass hysteria among listeners who were convinced that it was indeed an attack from extra-terrestrial beings! Let's make your radio play equally effective! Read on...