I was pretty excited to be able to spend Stage Manager Day working on a show. That probably won’t always be the case, so I’m grateful. I’m not one of those people who says that the show couldn’t go on without the Stage Manager. There would still be theatre. There was theatre without Stage Managers. For hundreds

So, I don’t drink beer. This show I’m Stage Managing right now? It’s a “boozy” show, which means the audience around us is drinking and getting free drinks from us when they participate in the show. We open this week and are in tech rehearsals right now. Here is a lovely photo of the cast

Each show I work on has the day when I explain this blog situation. Three weeks in to rehearsals of Dracula, it finally happened. During a break I shyly asked, “does anybody want to celebrate National White Chocolate Day with me?” Obviously they were down. This is part of the cast and our Producer/Co-Director in

Stage Managers use tape measures. Above, you can see the SM I’m currently working with taping out the set in our rehearsal room today. I also used my tape measure to assist in hanging my spice rack in my kitchen. I love my kitchen btw. This is a nice little addition. What’s Tomorrow? July 15th National

I’m working on a staged reading for New York Musical Theatre Festival this week. Because I am the Assistant Stage Manager, much of my time during today’s rehearsal was spent in front of a copy machine. Look at these fantastic paper bags they gave me to take home all of my copies. How considerate. Unfortunately, when