Whether you have been performing and designing forever or just started in college, you are welcome in the theatre. Everyone has a place in the theatre.

As Ia??ve been thinking about going back to school, I thought I would share with you what will be my list of essentials heading back into the academic year studying the arts.

There are going to be a lot of changes, positive and negative, coming to universities all over the country this fall. This is how my school is making changes to keep their students and staff safe for the upcoming semester. 

Many theater artists have a a?oeside hustle,' a complimentary job, usually freelance, that you can do on your own time to help supplement income.

When I was in my first theatre performance back when I was nine I made myself one rule to follow (and it seems to be one of the few things nine year old me had figured out) and that rule was a?oenever to fall in love with another cast member.'

This storm will pass. The black clouds will return to their warm, and inviting white color. Life will return. I know it will. It has to. 

When I came to Princeton my Freshman year, there was one club I knew I had to join. I had spent hours that summer watching videos on the Princeton Triangle Cluba??s website and looking at old production clips and photos.

Earlier this week, I had the awesome opportunity to sit on a panel of current students for a virtual high school senior preview day. It got me thinking about how I picked my school as well as everything that goes into picking a college and a degree. 

As disappointed as I am knowing there likely wona??t be a play and my capstone in the Fall semester wona??t be in person, I would say my greatest disappointment was envisioning my lighting design class virtually.

Even though this year will be much different than the rest, thanks to Covid, I can assure you that you will have an amazing year and you will learn and grow immensely. 

Many of my most valuable life lessons Ia??ve learned through theatre, not through high school. Let us not forget, theatre is an art form.

Finding ways to stay busy in the great big realm of theatre has never been a challenge and it still isna??t now, ita??s just different.

For those who dona??t live close enough to the bright lights of Broadway, regional theatres are the next best thing.

For college students, everything they've known has been flipped upside down in several ways.

While the TikToks of Hamilton Jr., Mean Girls Jr., and Tik Tok the Musical grace theatre kidsa?? for you pages, these content creators provide an excellent jumping off point for the question at hand: What will Broadway look like after the shutdown?

This pandemic hasna??t just affected Broadway. Ita??s postponed and even cancelled performances nationwide. Community theaters had to close their doors.

Choosing a college was an overwhelming process for me.  It was probably one of the biggest decisions I had to make at that point in my life.

Through this community I have constantly been pushed by my peers to grow creatively. 

This summer, Ia??m working as a teaching assistant at a virtual theatre summer camp, and working with theater kids during a pandemic has taught me a heck of a lot about life.

But this Freedom Summer that youa??re going to read all about is a new musical written by, now Baldwin Wallace music theatre alumni, based in the events that took place in the summer of 1964.  

Ia??ve found myself looking back and reminiscing on productions past. 

Little did I know that this stranger would turn into an incredibly important mentor and friend

For anyone in the theatre industry, an added stressor of this summera??s health and political chaos has been the complete loss of our industrya??s traditional in-person activity.

The main complaints about bootlegs are 1) ita??s distracting for the performers, 2) ita??s distracting for the audience, and 3) ita??s a form of theft. It is often the last point that holds the most contention from both sides.

In this post, Ia??ll be discussing the top 5 movies I would like to see come to Broadway.