The Starving Theater Artist

When I started in this business it was as a scenic carpenter. I don't mean a carpenter that is good to look at (although I remember one...

I notice several visitors have been to the posts where I talk about my cheap one-button MIDI devices. I currently make them with Arduino, w...

It seems strange to hang wireless microphones on kids. But the sad reality is that area mic'ing doesn't give you the volume before...

Finished up the current musical while trying to recover from a bout with the flu. Sunday was two performances, then strike. An hour after ...

I am signed on to three different musicals. One is ongoing, with the last of 34 performances happening this weekend. Immediately following...

Sound effects in musicals are an odd beast. Well: just as in straight plays, there are plays with many sound effects, and plays with few. ...

I'm just finishing up something like a dozen shows nearly back-to-back. All of them were musicals, and on most of them I was the sole d...