Yes!  In this financial environment everyone’s looking for less expensive forms of entertainment.  Consider community theater.  Attending a show is inexpensive.  At Old School Theatre, we do our very best to provide top-quality entertainment from the ground up.  We are always learning and practicing cost-effective ways to do just that so that we can...

Written by Mark Pelletier I spend my 8 am to 5 pm (sometimes 6 pm, 8 pm, 11 pm) hours as a computer consultant specializing in disaster recovery.  Before you fall asleep or close this message, this is not about that.  I am writing this to show the wonderful diversity that I love about community theatre and to show you how differing skills are necessary to put...

We all know our state motto, “The Volunteer State.” There is quote from an 1885 edition of the Knoxville Journal that really illustrates that. “Tennessee’s quota was always full, and scores of men enrolled their names whose services were never called for at all”(1). Never called for at all! They had too many people stepping...

Written by Alan Rhoads ‘Aye Matey!’  ‘Swab that deck!’  ‘Shiver me timbers!’  Ok everyone, admit it.  When you read the title ‘Walk the Plank’, these are a few of the phrases you thought of.  You cannot read the words Walk the Plank and not think of pirates.  But this is not about pirates, and it’s...

While perusing the web searching for theatre thoughts, I came across this note about theatrical philosophy on wikipedia.  I’m not one to turn to wiki anything for definitive answers, but I like the way this is stated. “There is a variety of philosophies, artistic processes, and theatrical approaches to creating plays and drama. Some are connected to...