Tag: Totem Pole Playhouse

Starting Rehearsals and Making Script Changes with an iPad

Starting Rehearsals and Making Script Changes with an iPad

Today started a 2 week crazy period where I’m running back and forth between Wayside Theatre where I work full time and Totem Pole Playhouse where the musical play I co-authored, Southern Crossroads, is being produced. I’m also directing the show there as well. This morning I realized we needed to make a few script [...]

Posted by | 07/27/2011 | 5 Comments More
The Tablet Challenge: Using a Tablet as a Script in Rehearsal

The Tablet Challenge: Using a Tablet as a Script in Rehearsal

As I continue to check out the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the HP TouchPad, along with my ongoing usage of the iPad 2, I’m about to begin an interesting two week challenge. OK, that’s not being intellectually honest. This is one of those instances in my ongoing comparison testing when the the iPad 2 [...]

Posted by | 07/25/2011 | 7 Comments More
Build Your Own ePUB eBooks in OS X Lion

Build Your Own ePUB eBooks in OS X Lion

Concurrently with my experimenting to prepare Tablets to be used as my scripts in rehearsals for Southern Crossroads at Totem Pole Playhouse, I was eager to test out this new Automator feature in OS X Lion. Essentially the Automator action Text to ePUB File does exactly what its name says it does. It allows you [...]

Posted by | 07/25/2011 | 3 Comments More
Surviving Three Weeks of Crazy Work with Mobile Gadgets

Surviving Three Weeks of Crazy Work with Mobile Gadgets

Whew! It’s over and life is slowly returning to normal for me. (Although normal is always a moving target.) Several weeks ago I launched into a very intense work period where I was to direct two shows at two different theatres in two different states. It sounds further away than it is, as Wayside Theatre [...]

Posted by | 06/10/2009 | 3 Comments More