Finding Beauty Next Door
By Melody Murphy | How Ocala Civic Theatre found inspiration through their neighbor, the Appleton Museum of Art, leading to a unique collaboration on Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. Disney’s…
By Melody Murphy | How Ocala Civic Theatre found inspiration through their neighbor, the Appleton Museum of Art, leading to a unique collaboration on Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. Disney’s…
By Matthew Aaron Stern | The world has changed. A global pandemic, the rise of Black Lives Matter and social justice movements, and the intensifying climate crisis have altered how…
By Tom Alsip | ‘This award is for every kid who is watching tonight who has a disability, who has a limitation or a challenge, who has been waiting…
By Keith T. Martin | In presenting celebrated theatre actress Rosemary Harris with the 2021 Distinguished Career Award, SETC President Maegan McNerney Azar (she/her) astutely noted that the recipient “has…
Professors and other experts share their advice on researching and negotiating the best possible financial aid.
By Amy Cuomo | The challenges that students face begin long before they step on campus. One of the biggest mistakes that Steven Roten, a theatre professor at Meredith College…
By Derrick Vanmeter | “Theatre is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.” – Martha Graham In the wake of renewed calls for…
By Zackary Ross | I often tell my students that the greatest gift a playwright gives an actor is a pause written into the stage directions. A pause offers actors…
How did you find your theatre training program? This was a question recently posed to the SETC staff by our coworker Debi Belanger. For some, their theatre training begins at…
By Matthew Aaron Stern | Over the last year, we have experienced historical challenges that cannot be understated. A global pandemic, intense political division, a rising social justice movement, and…
Written by Sharrell D. Luckett | “White people seem paralyzed,” I said to a colleague. “What?” she asked. “Some of them seem confused,” I continued, “and I’m not sure why….
Written by Erik DeCicco & Bill J. Adams | All of us in theatre understand the necessity of being able to walk in someone else’s shoes to develop good characters,…
Over the years, SETC News, the bi-monthly newsletter of the Southeastern Theatre Conference, has collected success stories of professional audition candidates. Check out some of the recently featured stories below…
Special theatrical effects can be so much fun to work on, but they can break the budget if you aren’t thinking imaginatively. Among the most challenging are those that incorporate…
Written by Deanna Thompson | Mill Mountain Theatre Creates, Presents Digital Production on Broadway on Demand When the coronavirus pandemic made it impossible for Mill Mountain Theatre to present its…
Written by Zackary Ross | When I started planning this column a short time after the coronavirus shut down theatres, my first thought was to include plays that somehow addressed…
Written by Deanna Thompson | Southern Theatre followed up with the six theatres featured in our Summer 2020 issue that either had opened or hoped to open for summer seasons…
Written by Mark Catlett | Creating a High-Quality Self-Taped Audition Is Key to Getting a Job in Our Socially Distanced World Prior to March 2020, video auditions, or “self-taped” auditions,…
Introduction by Marci J. Duncan | With the recent resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement, everyone is listening. Listening to the cries that have now turned into full-on screams of…
Written by Stefanie Maiya Lehmann | As the novel coronavirus pandemic continues to impact the U.S., the majority of theatres across the country remain closed. According to Americans for the…
Written by Stefanie Maiya Lehmann | Broadly thinking, there are three major questions theatre companies must ask when considering whether or not they are ready to reopen. Each of these…
Matthew Stern, longtime Broadway stage manager and producer of the Broadway Stage Management Symposium, shared 10 changes that he believes will be necessary for theatre practitioners to safely return to…
Two productions at the University were affected, both with ties to Padraic Lillis’ The Farm Theater. The first piece was Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit, directed by Lillis. The interruption occurred…
Jose Simbulan holds the keys to success for thousands of auditionees. At most of SETC’s Professional Auditions for the last 25 years, he has been the unflappable pianist at the…
Few projects are as challenging as replicating items found in nature. Creating a realistic tree or, in this instance, a stage full of rocks, can be a costly and timeconsuming…