August 2011
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"And the clock begins to wind down."
It’s so hard to believe that we’re already in our last week of By the Dawn’s Early Light! While we will surely have more blog posts as we wrap up our run, our playwright Mel turned in his final, very contemplative, very heartwarming post last night. (Sigh.) And the clock begins to wind down. How is it possible that as I write this, we as a company are about to embark on our final...
Aug 24th
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Aug 17th
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Aug 17th
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Aug 12th
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Interview: Farin Rebecca Loeb
Thank goodness we have an awesome stage manager for By the Dawn’s Early Light. With twelve actors and two plays (and eight scenes in the second play), keeping track of what-props-were-supposed-to-be-where — and keeping our [wonderful] actors in line — was much too much for us to handle. Please meet the wonder that is Farin Rebecca Loeb, who has a surprisingly varied background...
Aug 9th
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Aug 8th
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Aug 7th
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Interview: Karen Sours
We still have interviews on the way for By the Dawn’s Early Light. Today, we hear from the lovely Karen Sours, who plays the role of Angie, the pregnant girlfriend of a soon-to-be-deployed marine, in “Midnight Mass.” How did you end up in New York City? When I was 5 years old, I told my mom I wanted to be an actress.  My mom smiled, thinking this would be a passing thing, and...
Aug 6th
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"A person noted for feats of courage or nobility...
Mel writes about a subject matter close to his heart: the first responders of September 11. It never ceases to amaze me that, whenever you are writing about a particular subject matter, the themes that you are exploring seems to jump out at you from every newscast you come across or any periodical your eyes happen to glance at. Case in point: the subject matter of those heroic, selfless first...
Aug 5th
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Aug 2nd
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