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Listen to Lisa Kay Morton and Lynne Bouchard’s review of Providence Player’s production of William Saroyan’s The Time of Your Life [MP3 3:50 1.1MB]; or read the transcript. Yes, this is the show that I am in, and yes, I did meet Lisa Kay and Lynne after the show, but they were not influenced or bribed in recording their thoughts about the show. Feel free to leave your own thoughts on the show in the comments after their review.

Listen to the talkback session at Vpstart Crow, discussing Anton Checkhov’s The Seagull [MP3 29:20 8.4MB]; or read the transcript. View the show schedule, our review and photos of the show.

Whew! Opening Night for The Time of Your Life has come and gone. It went really well. No major problems, a few minor ones; but nothing that was a showstopper. I did drop a couple of my lines in my first scene, but they didn’t affect the flow of the scene. I was a bit […]

The Denver Post is reporting on a new indoor statewide smoking ban taking effect shortly that will bad indoor smoking, including on stage in live theatre. Thespians tackling smoking ban. Fascinating. The Time of Your Life takes place in a bar in 1939, so of course there is smoking going on. The script calls for […]

I’ve had a great time the last week working hard on The Time of Your Life. We’ve now run the entire show straight through at least six times. I had one run where I didn’t make any mistakes, and remembered all of my lines. Including the lists that Tom is so found of. So what […]

Wow, we have done a ton of work since last I posted. Friday night we ran bunches of scenes. Saturday was an all-day extravaganza that culminated in a full run through. On Saturday we were at the theatre from 9am until 6:45pm. In the morning we did a speed read of the First Act (what […]

Wow, what a week! Wednesday and Thursday night we ran through large pieces of the The Time of Your Life. We’re working on refining the blocking, and getting the timing down. My longest scene is at the end of the last act, and it’s the one I feel most comfortable with. Continue reading…

Last night we did the middle of Act II through the end of Act III. It went quite well. Again I was pretty nervous starting out, but I settled down for the second run through. Part of it is the fear of forgetting my lines, which becomes a self fulfilling prophesy. Chip gave me some […]

Last night we ran through the first 30 pages or so of The Time of Your Life twice. We had all the cast members from those scenes, and we were mostly off-book. I messed up a bit the first time I was on stage. I’ll admit it, I was nervous. It was so loud! People […]

Listen to the ShowBizRadio Playbill #4 for September 24, 2006 [MP3 5:46 1.7MB]; or read the transcript.