Richard C. Aven - Director
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Amelia Sciandra, Liz Morgan & Emily Kitchens in Serendipity, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Quincunx, by David H Rosen

art gives life meaning

I believe in the live performing arts.  The space between the performer and the audience has many possibilities, but ultimately it is that relationship that opens up the opportunity for a moment of entertainment, that allows the performer & the observer to hold each other together, mutually (which is the root meaning of the word "entertain"  - thank you Erich Leinsdorf for that definition).

Theatre, Dance & Music all exist within the unique combination of time & space & the physical human body & the audience.
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Melissa Wolff, John Clarence Stewart & W Tré Davis in Exquisite Corpse, by Liz Thaler & Sam Hicks for Connect the Shotz (April 2015)
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Beginning the tech rehearsal process with the brilliant actors of Go Get the Axe, by James L. Menzies (June 2017)
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