Shael Risman

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Studio 60 Wasn’t Wrong. It Was Just Early.

Studio 60 Wasn’t Wrong. It Was Just Early.

There was a time—not that long ago, though it feels like another lifetime—when Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip was the industry punchline.  Too expensive, too self-important, too preachy and too stacked with high-paid actors delivering monologues like they were...

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The Blessing and Burden of Being Adjudicated

The Blessing and Burden of Being Adjudicated

If you stay in community theatre long enough, you’ll eventually sit through an adjudication. Usually with a notebook in your lap, a knot in your stomach, and somebody (likely me) whispering, “Well… here we go.” I have mixed feelings about adjudication, and I suspect I...

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