Mark Your Calendars! Two weekends in July the Lincoln County Community Theater is presenting Blithe Spirit. Friday & Saturday July 22 & 23 Pre-performance dessert is at 6pm and the performance begins at 7pm. A Sunday Matinee at 2pm on July 24. The following weekend Friday July 29 & Saturday July 30 again dessert served [...]
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1st Annual Mountain Top Songwriting Contest
JOIN US! Bring all your friends and family! The Ruidoso Regional Council for the Arts and several local sponsors are preparing for a GREAT end of summer bash with our First Annual Mountain Top Song Contest
The Second Circle
(Another from Patsy Rodenburg…) [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub27yeXKUTY&NR=1]
Perfectionism
I’ve recently started reading Anne Lamott’s Bird By Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. Aside from the fact that her writing style is fresh, honest, and hilarious…there’s a practicality to it that is proving immensely helpful. In a brief chapter about perfectionism, she offers this – helpful to writers, visual artists, actors, musicians, chefs…whatever [...]
Why I Do Theater
Art that tells the truth isn’t always well accepted… [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9jjhGq8pMM&feature=related]
Shrimpy’s on St. Patrick’s
Three short plays will be presented March 17 at 7:30 p.m. at Shrimpy’s, 2501 Sudderth. The plays, written by Lyn Kidder, will be presented March 20 at the Theater New Mexico annual conference in Artesia. Even though it’s St. Patrick’s Day, audience members will notice a Christmas theme, Kidder said. “That’s easy to explain–I wrote [...]
From Sketch to Stage
Here’s an interesting audio slide show giving some inside information ona new performance of The Miracle Worker in New York (yeah, it’s a long ways away and we doubt any of us will actually see it, but we can enjoy and learn from it long-distance!)….click on over HERE to see the slide show (you’ll want [...]
More mime!
You hear people make fun of mimes…but WOW. What they are able to communicate through motion and expression – it’s astounding! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0cHCnuNGJc&feature=channel] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5t6imAcAD4&feature=related]
Mime
A mime artist is someone who uses mime as a theatrical medium or as a performance art, involving miming, or the acting out a story through body motions, without use of speech. In earlier times, in English, such a performer was referred to as a mummer. Miming is to be distinguished from silent comedy, in [...]
