The Starving Theater Artist

A place I work at decided they didn't need a designer for their next show, but they want to pay someone a stipend to "run the micro...

Now we can actually hang mics on actors. This requires at least passing attention, and perhaps coordination, with costumes, make-up, and wig...

Your next problem is establishing a good signal path. The RF (radio frequency) environment is getting increasingly cluttered. Unfortunatel...

As I've explained in other journal entries, there is more to Sound Design for a Musical than hanging microphones on the actors. There is...

I got called last month for an emergency come-in-and-FOH-our-show-the-last-sound-guy-left-suddenly. The design I was working off of was uniq...

How does one compose music for a play? This essay will likely be short and rambling; I know only a little of music theory, music history, an...

I'm tired of being ninja. Oh, I don't mean the killing-people part. Or even the cool weapons part. I mean the wearing black and snea...