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Summer Theater Camps
My son has been interested in acting for many years. Before entering high school he has been involved in 38 theater productions or classes, starting in preschool at age 4. About a third of these of...
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New video camera
I bought my first video camera recently. I wanted it for two purposes: to record my son’s theatrical performances and to record student presentations in class (both practice talks in the...
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Accents, please
http://accent.gmu.edu/browse_atlas.php is a cool site that has recordings of many people reading the same passage of English text, to provide samples for determining accents. Information is recorded...
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Summer Programs for Gifted Kids
Carol Fertig of Prufrock Press (which bills itself as “The Nation’s Leading Resource for Gifted and Advanced Learners”) has just posted on her blog a list of lists of Summer Programs for Gifted Kids....
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The Three Musketeers | West End Studio Theatre – Santa Cruz, CA
The theater group that my son has been taking classes from for several years had a production tonight of Dumas’s Three Musketeers: PlayLab: The Three Musketeers | West End Studio Theatre—Santa Cruz,...
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Shakespeare Santa Cruz 2012 Season
Shakespeare Santa Cruz has released their 2012 Season: Twelfth Night Man in the Iron Mask (world premiere) Henry IV, Part two The Mandrake (fringe show, by interns) It looks like it will be a good...
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Dinosaur Prom Improv
Dinosaur Prom logo by Hunter Wallraff. My son had his first performance tonight with the Dinosaur Prom improv troupe. This was only their second performance with an audience, but they managed a full...
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West End Studio Theatre summer program
WEST Performing Arts ad for the "Academy at WEST" summer classes. West End Studio Theatre has released their summer 2012 schedule. They have 19 programs that they are running this summer. Each...
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Busy week(s)
My son and I have just finished a busy week, and he has another busy week coming up. Last weekend (April 28 & 29) he had 3 performances of a “Fringe Show” with his teen acting class. The Fringe...
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Oregon Shakespeare Festival field trip May 2012
In an earlier blog post, I talked about how busy my son and I have been lately and promised a post on the field trip to Ashland, OR for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival with the Alternative Family...
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No coordination in our school district
Three high schools in the same school district have all scheduled their Spring musicals at the same time: Big weekend for theatrical productions. We managed to get to none of them, as we had the MATE...
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Summer Classes 2012 at West End Studio Theatre – Santa Cruz, CA
My son will be taking 2 2-week teen theater classes this summer: Teen Production: Hunger Games – The Great Debate and Teen Conservatory w/Shakespeare Santa Cruz; Scene Study Intensive There are, I...
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WEST adds extra Hunger Games summer camp
My son signed up early for the theater camp production of Hunger Games this summer at WEST performing arts. It was a good thing he did since that class filled up quickly and acquired a waitlist. In...
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Santa Cruz Fringe Festival
Santa Cruz is having its first Fringe Festival this year—an event that is long overdue. Santa Cruz has had plenty of festivals in the past, but each one has been focused on a single art form (improv,...
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Shakespeare Santa Cruz previews
I got a postcard from Shakespeare Santa Cruz announcing discount prices for their preview shows. I think that they sent this to everyone on their subscribers’ list, even those (like us) who have...
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Hunger Games starting tonight
I’m going to see a teen production of Hunger Games tonight at West End Studio Theater. They are doing six performances with two casts. Each cast serves as extras for the other cast’s performances, so...
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Opening night for Twelfth Night
Last night my family went to opening night for Twelfth Night at Shakespeare Santa Cruz. I’ve seen a number of different productions of the play over the past 40 years, and this was neither the best...
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End of season for Shakespeare Santa Cruz
Last night my family went to Henry IV, Part 2 at Shakespeare Santa Cruz, which marked the end of the season for us, having seen all 4 plays: Twelfth Night, The Man in the Iron Mask, Henry IV part 2,...
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Guiding gifted kids in selecting career paths
I read Laura Vanderkam’s blog post, What to do if your kid wants to be an artist, about the difficulty of guiding gifted kids. When kids have talents that could lead them to success in fields where...
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Teen improv Dec 2
logo by Hunter Wallraff On Sunday, 2012 Dec 2, two different teen improv troupes will be presenting shows in Santa Cruz: Water the Weeds, 2:00–3:30 p.m., Tannery World Dance & Cultural Center, 1060...
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