Scene4 Magazine | letters to the editor

To answer Nathan Thomas' question: I've been reading Scene4 for many years and I especially like Nathan's column because of his personal one-on-one style and off-beat insights. All of the columns and articles are good and follow a course of interesting, informative and enjoyable journalism.
Martin Moore, Producer
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Nathan Thomas article brought the words "community theater" into a more enlightened context than the one usually associated with the words "community" and "theater". His broadening of the scope of community, suggests a broader landscape for theater artists to work with. In the August, 2007 issue of Scene4, titled "Homeown Grown Theater", I wrote about the efforts of the 4TH Line Theater in a Canadian rural community, developing stories that frequently leap frog over parochial concerns, into a shared and cognizant sense of the overall human community. For the most part, Community theatre in the United States simply copies what has succeeded elsewhere in order to appear up to date and "professional" with the right kind of recipe. I am not talking about merely exploring the "experimental" aspects of theater; that has been done to death and has limited appeal. I am talking about rediscovering community theatre from the ground floor up, where the real demand for a fresh approach needs to succeed.
Ned Bobkoff
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I have been an avid reader of the magazine since its inception and I've always look forward to Nathan Thomas' commentary.
Anee S. Waterson, Writer, Director-UK

Actor
Tim Forman

Playwright and actor-US
Mary Scott-Raines

Theatre lover and community theatre participant
Pearl Berg

Actor and Poet-Denmark
Karl Mendik

I love the arts, especially theater and opera
Suzanne Seibring

Filmmaker
Peter Johns

Producer, Director-US
Toro Sanchez

Just an arts lover and reader
Karen Moreland

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Thanks for the insight. Your analogy is right on depending on how many times you flip the coin. I'll take "heads."
Tim Forman
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Nice review--makes one want to rush out and see it. Does anyone know how one can see this spectacle without making the pilgrimage to Vegasland and pay the exhorbitant ticket prices?
Will
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Great observations on real country music. It's like the difference between locally produced vegetables sold at the family grocery and Walmart with their grapes from Chile.
Nice work Les
Ray Istre
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Fantastic review of Cirque Du Soleil's "O". I recently forked out the dough earlier this year to see this show and while it was well worth the price, your article captured the experience for those folks who either can't or won't make it to Vegas for this show.
Lia Beachy
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Great interview, Kathi. Thank you!!
Sarah Browning
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Kathi Wolfe is simply one of the best writers in America, and Kim Roberts is one of the best poets. Who could not love this interview?
Grace Cavalieri
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Karren Alenier takes us to another time, another era, another life, another appetite we did not know before. And let us have more.
Grace Cavalieri
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