An obsession of mine has been a list of rules outlining the critical elements of creating a 'good' theatrical experience. I am speaking about Greg Allen, the Founding Director of the Neo-Futurists in Chicago, IL, and his '26 Rules for Creating Good Theatre' as published in 2012. You can experience the full article at the link below. The Neo-Futurists have been running a show entitled Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind for over 20 years, which they have deemed, "the longes

Backstage used to frightened me, to be honest. My elementary school days encompassed my first nights wandering behind the legs and Cycs in the theaters of downtown Wichita. It seemed at the time that I had discovered another world that was so unimaginably different than any world I had known before. And, that was scary. It is unimaginably dark; the opposite of what we see in under the stage lights from the vantage point of an auditorium seat. It's a parallel universe. Picture