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Coping with COVID: A Return to Self
Concert halls have fallen silent. Art galleries are vacant. Theatres are void of people. This is our new reality, a temporary stop or PAUSE, as Governor Cuomo refers to it.…
An Actor Doing Nothing
I took an acting workshop with Maggie Mancinelli-Cahill a number of years ago and one of the first things she did was went around the room and asked us all to think of a…
Blowin’ In The Wind
It’s like quicksand. You can’t see how deep it is, and it looks so normal, you have trouble believing there’s any danger at all. But once you’ve stepped in it, the more you…
Kenny Rogers Knew When to Hold ’Em and When to Fold ’Em
He called me on a cell phone in the parking lot of a McDonald’s somewhere in Louisiana. It was 2011, and Kenny Rogers was advancing his Christmas show at Proctor’s Theatre in…
Dear David / Hi Jan: Brickman & Galligan Discuss Film
The following account represents an actual email correspondence between two art-buddies, and is bookended by excerpts from the original script of the film 1917, which is the…
Ralph Renna’s Crash Course in Troy-Core History
Editor's Note: This is an editorial piece from a long time personality within the Troy and Capital Region scene, Ralph Renna. Ralph's involvement with local music dates back…