Theatre | Ryan C Tittle

Jun 284 min read

On Political Theatre

In this year where everyone is on their tiptoes awaiting one form of political turmoil or another, my thoughts have been drifting toward...

Jun 213 min read

On the Providence of Summer (And Why I Hate It)

As you read this, we are in the second day of summer, a season I appreciate (for all the life, the beauty, the cooling pool outside, the...

Mar 227 min read

Cancellation or Practicality: The Life and Death of a Play

I rather enjoy publishing a blog post that announces a new publication. It is rather another thing to write one about the revocation of a...

Nov 24, 20236 min read

Native Children

In the early 2000s, I inherited a book collection from my former theatre teacher. It was a virtual treasure trove of hardcover and...

Sep 22, 20237 min read

Acting in WAITING FOR GODOT: A Recap

All photographs, save the last image, appear courtesy of Steven Ross. For more information about his work, visit his website. The odds...

Sep 1, 20234 min read

An Actor's Journal- Part 7

I’m still vertical. It’s a low bar for living, but there you are. After this experience—rehearsing for my first stage role in nearly 20...

Aug 25, 20235 min read

An Actor's Journal- Part 6

Last Friday night, the show finally settled into a place where the bones were there. I don’t know when we started using the word bones to...

Jul 28, 20237 min read

An Actor's Journal- Part 2

The first thing I panicked about was pencils. Pencils! Did I even own a pencil? When was the last time I even used a pencil? A pencil, a...

Apr 28, 202310 min read

A Quarter Century at the Table Writing Plays

On March 28, 1997, I sat down at my desk and wrote a one act play. It wasn’t the first play I wrote exactly, but it was the first one to...

Jul 23, 20224 min read

Remembering Spalding Gray

I was in Jean Randich’s classroom at Bennington. I thought she was wild and wonderful. She was what I imagined when I dreamed up a New...