What's Happening at First Act?
At First Act Theatre Arts, we are excited and prayerfully looking forward, with abundant hope, that our next home is becoming a reality. Throughout the next year of our Capital Campaign, it is imperative that we make this journey rooted in Christ and the purposes created for us.
First Act’s Middle School Overnight Camp is always my favorite week of the summer. When I heard that High School Musical Jr. was our show this year, somehow my excitement for this week grew exponentially. My first camp experience with First Act was a High School Musical summer camp when I was five years old, and I cannot comprehend that I am now directing the musical with the same organization!
Before the 9 to 5 movie and musical we know and love, there was a movement that inspired both. 9to5 is an organization created in 1973 by clerical workers to respond to the inequities, unfairness, and outright harassment and discrimination they were experiencing in the workplace. These courageous, tenacious, and fierce women organized and banded together to advocate for themselves and for a better future for working women. 9to5 still exists today, fighting every day for equal wages, paid family leave, and a harassment-free workplace. Their work continues to advance racial and gender justice through community-led advocacy as they seek widespread, long-lasting change.
Almost, Maine is a beautiful depiction of human connection. We all hope for connection and love throughout our lives - people who understand us, accept us for all of our faults, know us completely. In our journey to find it, we risk heartbreak, we fall in love, we make mistakes, we grow apart, we find each other again, we move on, and the list goes on.
Ever since Charles Addams first sketched this wonderfully oddball family in the 1930s, The Addams Family has captured the imagination of audiences everywhere. They’ve crept, crawled, and cackled their way from the pages of The New Yorker to television screens, animated adventures, movies, and now the stage, becoming one of the most beloved (and bizarre) families in pop culture. There’s just something about their world that draws us in: the flickering candlelight, the ominous organ music, the dark humor, and, of course, the undeniable love that holds this spooky bunch together.
Dr. Seuss stories have been delighting us since 1937 with their catchy rhyme schemes and unique illustrations. I know I have memories of my parents reading Dr. Seuss books to me over and over again because I couldn’t get enough! And all the while, underneath the surface, there were deeper lessons to be learned from these stories.