Allison Cain is Lifeline’s new Managing Director! Yay! We are so happy and fortunate. You may know Allison because she’s acted in four Lifeline shows (including the current Mariette in Ecstasy — closing April 5, don’t miss it!) as well as acting all over town. She was also Executive Director of the Factory Theater for […]
News, news, and more news
Ron Hansen was here! Again! (Elise Kauzlaric, Brenda Barrie, Ron Hansen & Christina Calvit) Author Ron Hansen returned to Lifeline on March 14th to see the finished Mariette in Ecstasy (he’d already come on first preview weekend!) He did a book signing between the 4pm and 8pm shows and a talkback after the latter. We’ve […]
Cheers for Mariette
Let me just give a shout out right now to the Lifeline house and box office team because ALL the bosses were out of town this past weekend and we did not get a single text. As per usual, Susan, Tonia and Deirdre had it all under control. I even got Deirdre roped into the […]
Pain
As we’re working on Mariette in Ecstasy, a play which examines the lives of nuns at the turn of the century in upstate New York, I find myself struggling with one of the key ideas of the text. Why would anyone actively seek pain? Mariette Baptiste, a young postulant, loves Christ with a passionate, teenage […]
Peter Brown was here!
Flight of the Dodo author-illustrator Peter Brown was our celebrity guest at Lifeline on January 18th. Author visits are thrilling and most of us Lifeliners were just bouncing gleefully — but the adapter and the director are generally a smidge Anxious as they wonder about author response to “what we’ve done to his book.” Pretty […]
Thank you, Donald
I lost a special friend (or perhaps a quirky uncle) with the passing of Donald Westlake yesterday. I wish I were speaking of a literal friendship. It would have been a wonderful takeaway from my experience in adapting his novel Trust Me on This for our stage in 2003. But the truth is we met […]
Donald Westlake
Sad news today. Comic crime novelist, Donald Westlake, is dead at 75. He wrote about a gazillion novels and numerous screenplays and is considered one of the best mystery writers of our time. Many of us at Lifeline got to meet Mr. Westlake and his wife Abby Adams in 2003 when they came to see […]
Closing three shows, opening two…
Good Lordypants. Closing three shows at once (Duck for Prez, Dorian Gray, Zorro at TBC) is totally like moving. You know that part of the move where everything you own is in chaos at your feet and you can’t find anything because you started to pack all organized but in the end everything was thrown […]
Mariette Meet & Greet/Read-Through: An Actor’s Perspective
On Monday, December 1, we had our Meet & Greet for Lifeline’s next Mainstage production, Mariette in Ecstasy, adapted from Ron Hansen’s novel by ensemble member Christina Calvit (A Room With a View, Jane Eyre, Far From the Madding Crowd) and directed by ensemble member Elise Kauzlaric, whom you’ve seen on our stage many times […]
To build a flying machine…
WE SPIN WE TWIRL WE SAIL WE SWIRL WE PLUNGE WE DROP ASCEND AND STOP Our first rehearsals began officially a week ago and already we’re tackling some of the most challenging aspects of the script. Working with Rob (ensemble member, Robert Kauzlaric) as adapter on a few projects now I know to expect heightened […]