Announcing our 2009/2010 Season
Bill and I are really excited to be able to finally announce the slate of plays selected for our 2009/2010 Season. It takes a very long time to assemble a good variety of stories that we think fit our...
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Hedwig past and present
Wow does time fly. I can’t believe it is already June and Summer is almost here. What is even more amazing is that we are about to start our 7th Season. When Sean and I started Cygnet, I never...
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I’ve been Advocated!
When Sean Murray offered me a part in Noises Off, he didn’t have to go very far – he just strolled the ten feet from his office to the “Development Suite”, as we affectionately call the corner office...
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It’s Not an Age Thing…
Jessica John and her mom The opening night of Hedwig and the Angry Inch left me with a quandary. Admittedly a “mama’s girl”, I take my mother to see everything. She’s an artist and an intellectual and...
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The Best Kind of Madness
Albert Dayan as Lloyd DallasPhoto by Daren Scott Jason Heil drove up to my hometown of Los Angeles to see a play, not cast one. But there we were, sitting in the audience of a theatre in Glendale, when...
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MAN FROM NEBRASKA: Road trip to Lincoln
Jack Missett in front of Nebraska cornfield On the road at 5 a.m., headed west from the bottom left corner of Iowa across the Missouri River on highway 34, which runs through the heart of the “Prairie...
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Revisiting “It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play”
Veronica Murphy and Tom Andrew. Photo by Randy Rovang Our theatre is presenting a 1940′s radio version of the movie, It’s A Wonderful Life. We all know the movie. I remember the first time I saw the...
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Five Things You Didn’t Know About Cygnet Theatre
1. The Cygnet Theatre Name has a Cheeky Origin. As most theatre buffs will tell you, the Globe Theatre in London has long-been considered one of the “most magnificent” theatres the city has every seen....
View ArticleA Sweeney Blood Rehearsal
In order to test drive the special blood effects designed by resident artists Peter Herman, Shirley Pierson, Bonnie and Nick Durben for our production of Sweeney Todd, we held a little blood-letting...
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We celebrated the opening of Sweeney Todd last night. The performers were all outstanding, and the audience responded with a standing ovation. Afterwards we enjoyed a wonderful post show party hosted...
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