THE BOOK OF GENESIS: In our 15 years, we’ve had some adventures. Some amazing, even inspiring. Until the end of our campaign (October 24), we’ll remember moments in our history. Laugh, cry, whatever works. The Spotlight-On Festival and The Performing Arts Society. Kingsborough College’s theater program was fading. A once renowned program was now suffering due…
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Another Star in the M Constellation
White Rabbit productions in association with Genesis Repertory will present a series of plays at the Kraine Theater in the East Village. On the same block as La Mama and The New York Theater Workshop, where RENT first began. In that series of plays you’ll find Savannah Marie Elliott. Her folks – upon learning that both…
THERE IS A MONSTER UNDER MY BED … OR POSSIBLY PRODUCING MY NEXT PLAY.
AS WE APPROACH THE “DARK TIMES”… A big discussion in several of our classes has been FEAR. There is an irony to fear, thus a reason the arts are ALWAYS precarious. Fear is an outcome of creativity. Thus, the more creative the mind, the better chance that the fears will be great and oppressive. It…
OMG
Mary and I don’t have a second anymore. She’s welcomed several new students and a group of new classes including a kid’s performance class and a Tarot series, so she is at the studio during all the prime hours and then some! She is also working on the M BAND’s first recording session at Wayne…
Graffiti
So when I got to the studio on Sunday after my tech, the floor in front of the M Center was covered in graffiti. I was thrilled… huh? The graffiti was a game of hopscotch which used the Solfege signs for music notes. Mary and our new arts associate, Adele, used it to teach Alinna…
Keep Calm We’re Doctors.
In honor of the 51st Season of Doctor Who we introduce: The Deeapohib Nope not a misprint. It’s new word, based on a 50-year-old word that is now securely into our lexicon…Tardis: Time and Relative Dimensions in Space. This is the little blue police box that DOCTOR WHO uses to travel throughout the universe of –…
Sander in my Eyes
There’s a terrific writer, reviewer, and playwright in town. Sander Gusinow I’ve read his reviews – literate, sharp, intelligent … and fair I’ve read his plays – engrossing, clever, to-the-point I’ve read his article on Mary – top notch. http://drama-queens.net/?p=264 Welcome to the shark tank known as New York, pal. Here’s to collaborating. j
Play On
Sunday was wild. The morning brought Alinna and Mira, our newest students, into the studio. Newest in every way. At ages eight and six, they’re the newest to life as well as the M. Both gifted, it was marvelous to watch two baby artists begin to write music, sing, story-telling (what we affectionately call doing a…
A Note for the Skeptical
I attended a REIKI session this past weekend. It was joyous. I was a skeptic so I address my fellow smellers of BS. REIKI works. But if you’re skeptical, chances are you’re not going to be believe me anyway so I will speak your language. Here’s what REIKI means to the skeptic. It’s a chance to STOP. “Stop what?”…
What makes something a CENTER?
There are so many “centers.” Every community has a “community center” then there’s Lincoln Center … Kennedy Center… the Open Center. One imagines that centers should be these huge places where so much happens … they’re half right. So much should happen but that doesn’t mean it has to be huge. Mary and I dealt with…
THE M CENTER VOCAL ACADEMY 