WFT in Boston Globe!

in the Boston Globe, Thursday December 28:

Local actress and dialect coach Lisa Rowe-Beddoe, who’s also Wheelock Family Theatre’s assistant director of education, taught kids to move like animals during “Exploring Character Through Music and Movement,” a vacation-week class put on by Wheelock and the Boston Lyric Opera. At the front of the class was the room’s designated seal, 10-year-old Myasia Aitoro. Rowe-Beddoe, who left the UK for Massachusetts in 2002, has signed up to do some dialect coaching for the Zeitgeist Stage Company’s production of “Life of Riley,” which opens in February.

Coming Soon.

Coming soon to this space: An interview with Kay Arden Elliott. If you knew Kay like I know Kay -- well, soon enough you will! In the meantime, I leave you with these interesting theatre-related internet tidbits to ponder:

Mike Tyson has a one-man show. Seriously.
Read about it here.

Carrots instead of tickets. I wouldn't mind that.

Yep. Carrots.

There's seriously an app for everything.

Wherefore art my phone?

Live.

I miss live theatre, which is a crazy thing for me to think when I have access to so much of it. Who am I to be missing it when I have a professional theatre literally down the street from me as well as living a mere 20 minutes from Philadelphia, which hosts national runs of almost every touring show. I am also just a short two-hour drive from NYC. What am I doing sitting here, missing theatre?

I think it's a function of having a little kid. I saw a lot more theatre when I was kidless and, frankly, a lot more when I was single, too.

But there really is nothing like live theatre and I want to get back to seeing more of it. What keeps you from seeing the shows you want to see? Is it location? Money? Time? Maybe our new year's resolution should be to make the time and space in our lives and budgets to sit in a dark theatre, just checking out and soaking it in. Technology switched off and me-time switched on.

(Maybe we can all start by getting tickets for Oliver! Wanna?)