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In the COVID-19 pandemic era performing artists have been challenged to discover new ways to share their gifts with their audiences. Some solutions, like…
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The renaissance of Henrik Ibsen's play "The Enemy of the People" over the last few years has been so pronounced even the New York Times took note of…
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UMD theater professor Tom Isbell was a darling of television producer Burt Metcalf (M*A*S*H) and went on to work in movies with the likes of Anne Bancroft…
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Author (and UMD professor) Tom Isbell wraps up his young adult Prey trilogy with The Release. He talks about his inspirations (The Sneetches by Dr. Seuss,…
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For the 12th time (they average this about once every three years) UMD Theatre is off to the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, this time…
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Tom Isbell is a bit of an overachiever.The UMD Theatre professor/director is also a novelist and playwright .So when he heard about the One River, Many…
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Chris Harwood talks with Tom Isbell, UMD Professor of Theatre, about character-building. There is a broad palette of techniques an actor can use to…
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UMD's Tom Isbell takes off his director hat come May ... and usually, he puts on his novelist hat.But this summer, inspired by the "One River, Many…
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Fresh off their triumph with Spoon River this fall, UMD students and four staff members, including director Tom Isbell, journied to Paris as part of an…
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Social media is all abuzz with the story of J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books, taking actor Alan Rickman aside and confiding to him a secret.…