An interview with Noreen Brandt
Writing “Miss Robin Hood and Her Merry Band of Thieves”
An Ojibwe Story
Behind the Scenes by John Miller – January 2025 “Did I tell you what happened at the play? We were at the back of the theater, standing there in the dark, all of a sudden I feel one of ’em tug my sleeve, whispers, “Trudy, look.” I said, “Yeah, goose bumps. You definitely got goose…
Frozen Jr.
Bigger than a Minnesota blizzard in January, Frozen exploded onto our movie screens in 2013.
Newsies: Flop to Hit
Behind the Scenes by John Miller – March 2025 Sometimes it’s all about timing. In 2002, the movie musical Chicago was released, winning six Academy Awards including Best Picture. The success of Chicago paved the way for a new generation of successful live-action musicals, most recently the critically acclaimed and popular movie Wicked. However there exists a vast wasteland between…
Get to know your Tech
Behind the Scenes by John Miller – February 2024 Dancers live in light as fish live in water. The stage space in which they move is their aquarium, their portion of the sea. Within translucent walls and above the stage floor, the lighting supports their flashing buoyance or their arrested sculptural bodies. The dance is…
Who Was Cyrano?
Did you know that there really was a Cyrano de Bergerac?
Bringing Family into the Theatre
Grand Rapids Players’ production of “Fiddler on the Roof“. Editor’s note: This article is from the Grand Rapids Players’ newsletter and is reprinted here with permission. Grand Rapids players will be our hosts for MACT*Fest 2027 at the Reif Center in Grand Rapids in February of 2027. What an audience might not realize about the…
Digital Scenery
Behind the Scenes by John Miller – March 2024 King Triton’s court, Ursula’s Lair, and a storm-tossed Galleon; are just a few of the many scenes set under and over the sea in the Reif Theater Arts production of Disney’s The Little Mermaid JR. How do we go about designing these scenes without breaking our…
