If you’ve read my past couple of posts, you know that I am, ahem, a technical consultant for the upcoming production of Wait Until Dark at the Court Theatre in Chicago. The stage is set up for previews now, and last Tuesday stage management invited me to come and check it out. Emjoy, the actress […]

I’d been sound asleep in our Milwaukee hotel last month when I heard someone trying to get in our room. The key card went in the slot, then out. In, then out again. If I hadn’t just visited the Wait Until Dark cast at Court Theatre in Chicago the day before — and told the […]

Emjoy Gavino is coming over today. You might remember Emjoy from that post I wrote about the upcoming production of Wait Until Dark at Court Theatre in Chicago. Emjoy has the Audrey Hepburn (Susy) role — she’ll play a newly-blind woman in the play. I can get a little nervous when I know people are going […]

Hanni and I like to think of ourselves as divas, but I gotta admit – it’s pretty unusual for us to ever appear on television. And it’s very unusual for us to be on TV two days in a row. In fact, that’s never happened before. Until last week, that is. Last Wednesday morning Hanni […]

Earlier this week I got an email from “stage management” of Court Theatre in Chicago. The Hyde Park company is staging the play Wait Until Dark — they were wondering if I’d be willing to come by at rehearsal to, well, you know, show them the ropes. Chicago’s Metromix describes the play like this: A […]