A New Season
Introduction: During these challenging times, I will be sharing a range of ideas, dreams, essays and mostly-true tales stemming from the six decades (so far) of this wonderful career in [...]
Historical Perseverance
Introduction: During these challenging times, I will be sharing a range of ideas, dreams, essays and mostly-true tales stemming from the six decades (so far) of this wonderful career in [...]
The Headshot
Introduction: During these challenging times, I will be sharing a range of ideas, dreams, essays and mostly-true tales stemming from the six decades (so far) of this wonderful career in [...]
Producing the Impossible
Introduction: During these challenging times, I will be sharing a range of ideas, dreams, essays and mostly-true tales stemming from the six decades (so far) of this wonderful career in [...]
Why We Love Theater
Introduction: During these challenging times, I will be sharing a range of ideas, dreams, essays and mostly-true tales stemming from the six decades (so far) of this wonderful career in [...]
The Artistic Director
Introduction: During these challenging times, I will be sharing a range of ideas, dreams, essays and mostly-true tales stemming from the six decades (so far) of this wonderful career in [...]
Northwest HeraldReview: Noises Off
Regina Belt-Daniels of the Northwest Herald Review: I’m setting the bar pretty high here for future performances, but darn it!, I can’t find a single thing wrong with the Metropolis production of “Noises Off.” There’s not a weak link anywhere. The timing, the pacing, that cast, line delivery, costumes, sound, lights and the set are all extraordinary.
Travolta NetMetropolis ‘Noises Off’ is a Lesson in Hilarity
First published on The Life and Times of Rikki Lee Travolta: Noises Off by playwright Michael Frayn is arguably the funniest stage farce to date. Under the skillful direction of Joe Lehman, the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre staging goes to great lengths to prove this true.
Hilarity ensues onstage and backstage at Metropolis in the classic farce Noises Off
Enjoy a glimpse backstage with the comedy that has been hailed as the funniest farce ever written. A production plummeting off the rails takes center stage in this boisterous play-within-a-play. Following a traveling troupe’s production of the British comedy, Nothing On, from a tense dress rehearsal to a chaotic opening night and finally to a calamitous performance. The actors’ personal lives, ego battles and passionate affairs plunge the production toward the edge of complete disaster.
A Christmas Carol Dialect Coach – Saren Nofs Snyder
A Christmas Carol Dialect Coach, Saren Nofs Snyder answered a few questions on the dialects in A Christmas Carol, for our student study guide. Thanks again to Metropolis School of [...]