What am I scared of? Before we make theater, we sit in a room together. I’m scared of the generation that is coming to the fore in the arts.
"My sense was always that newspapers were the training ground and the ladder for me. I always thought I would spend my entire career in newspapers."
I have also always been a very attentive learner. So if an editor made a change, I thought about why that change was made, and I learned from my mistakes.
"Can you believe I just started the outlet and then started the training program that same year? I can't believe I had the audacity."
We, Julius Rea (arts producer & writer), Sharon Shao (actress, musician, arts educator), and Erin Bregman (playwright & librettist), saw Christopher Chen’s The Headlands at ACT. We’ve all been part of the Bay Area theater community for a long time, but haven't worked together (or known each other well) until now.
On the seventh floor of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library, I found myself with eleven strangers sitting in a bare room containing only chairs, a sheet of plywood with a stack of cards, a coat rack and a table to gather our things.
I need to stop deleting my sexts. For the past 10-odd years of my flirtatious life, I’ve sent, received, screenshotted, but ultimately deleted hundreds of kinky virtual messages from electronic records. The intent behind this hurried erasure has always been protective.
3Views sent three team members – Sarah Rose Leonard (SRL), Emma Orme (EO), and Maddie Rostami (MR) – to see Are we not drawn onward to new erA, a featured production of Under the Radar Festival presented at BAM. Read on to hear their thoughts about gibberish, voluntary extinction and the role of art in political action.
Ovid’s Metamorphoses divided the ages of man into metals, degrading in preciousness and value along a timeline of both technological progress and moral corruption. A golden age of peace gives way to a silver age of agriculture, then to the bronze and iron ages of mining, warfare, and conquest.
I loved my high school experience. I know I can sometimes be in the minority when I say that but, it’s true. I have always been proud of having gone to Douglas Anderson School of the Arts in Jacksonville, FL, with a focus in theater.
