Episode 46: Rick Santorum’s Google Problem

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Host Benjamin Rexroad discusses Big Box, politics, tribalism and more with special guest and ex-HUAR host TJ Jozsa Heads Up actors as social scientists It only took 17 takes to get this episode right Big Box and Burning Man Special shout out to…Benjamin Rexroad!? You can thank Nici Romo when you see Benjamin running down [...]

Do or Do Not. There is No Try.

A few months ago, on The Huffington Post, I read an article by the media maven herself, Arianna Huffington, about the crisis in our country and how politicians want to be “caught trying” to do something.  That is, they want to talk about the problems, “seem concerned” and leave a paper trail to prove it.  [...]

Episode 45: Commedia dell’Akron

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Host Benjamin Rexroad interviews Wendy Duke, (Drama teacher at Miller South), who’s Commedia Troupe has teamed up with New World Performance Laboratory to host an afternoon of Commedia workshops on Saturday February 25th from 2 – 5pm at the Balch Street Theatre. Commedia dell’Arte – a family form of theatre Commedia is improvised, slap-stick comedy [...]

Episode 44: Big Box, Week 7: “Chaos Theory”

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Host Benjamin Rexroad interviews Cat Kenney, writer for Chaos Theory. The longest pre-interview interview ever (From Kierkegaard to drugs and back again) Fractal science as a metaphor for theater What the heck is a Mandelbrot set? YouTube it! Cartoonist, teacher, world traveler…she even does her own stunts Vampires should read more Cat may or may [...]

Episode 43: Big Box, Week 6: “Divorcing Batman, Dating all of Gotham City”

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Host Benjamin Rexroad interviews Melissa Barber, writer/actress for Divorcing Batman, Dating all of Gotham City.  A solo performance based on one woman’s dating experience following her divorce from a certain costumed crusader Progressive dating, online dating and blind dating…oh my! So it really isn’t about Batman? Good, solid criticism….is there any other kind? The Three [...]

Actors Make Adaptation of ‘Bluest Eye’ Sizzle

Belser, center, is able to exude a super-human sadness

Until I saw The Bluest Eye, directed by Fred Sternfeld at Karamu House in Cleveland, I don’t think I had ever watched a production that inspired two contradictory trains of thought. Before I explain those divergent trains, a background of the play is necessary. The Bluest Eye is adapted from Noble Prize-winning author Toni Morrison’s [...]

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