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K David Cochran

Life Upon The Wicked Stage: Sometimes You’ve Just Gotta Keep Your Squee in Check

October 19, 2011

Sometimes working in the theater is far from glamorous. Take right now for example. I’m working on Horton Foote’s “Dividing the Estate” at the Alley in Houston. Do I spend my time hanging out with the fabulous cast that includes Elizabeth Ashley? Do I have any fancy or intricate set changes? No. I spend most [...]

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Positivity seems to be the hardest word…

August 3, 2011

These are some pretty rough times. Everyone already knows the details. Everyone already knows why. I don’t even have to elaborate. But there has to be a light at the end of the tunnel. There just has to be. I believe that. I have to. If I didn’t, it would be to easy to wallow. [...]

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My Kate

June 8, 2011

You lie, in faith; for you are call’d plain Kate, And bonny Kate, and sometimes Kate the curst; But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom, Kate of Kate Hall, my super-dainty Kate, For dainties are all cates: and therefore, Kate, Take this of me, Kate of my consolation; — Hearing thy mildness prais’d in every [...]

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Robbed… but not of everything

April 18, 2011

“Put it all in the bag.” That was the first thing he said to me last night as he pulled out a gun and presented a ratty purse to me. I was going to meet a friend out at club last night. It was near my house, so I walked. When I got there he [...]

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Life Upon the Wicked Stage… The Art of Making Art

April 11, 2011

If it’s Monday that must mean it’s an Equity day off. So. What am I going to do with my freedom from the eight-show week? Talk about theatre. More specifically, talk about what “life upon the wicked stage” has taught me. I have had the most amazing week. You know what it’s like to be [...]

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People to watch – Nicholas Downs

April 8, 2011

When I first began this blog, I promised to introduce you to some of the people I admire and some of the people who inspire me. Today I want to introduce you to a man who does both. A very talented and very industrious man who is not happy waiting for luck to come his [...]

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Off the grid…

March 24, 2011

Going without a computer these days is almost unthinkable. Our information, our entertainment, our communication… in fact, most of our lives are contained on our electronic devices. So, it’s been a most interesting month for me. My computer froze up. After a possible light at the end of the tunnel became a tunnel painted on [...]

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Angelic Voices

February 15, 2011

On this most loving (and commercial) of holidays, I have a gift for you. Two voices. One you may have heard, the other probably not. GRIFFITH FRANK If you saw NINE and stayed to the final credits, you are stronger than I. Normally I do, but in this case I just couldn’t take anymore – [...]

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Meet Maury

February 6, 2011

With my computer on the blink, I couldn’t get my new blog together. But I wanted to get something new on the boards. So I introduce you to Maury – a new friend who may have more to say… Maury looked down from his perch. The sky above was gray. The ground wet from the [...]

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Art Matters

January 24, 2011

I recently had a few days between shows and decided to visit a friend in D.C. Having only a short time, Albert and I made a list of all the things that needed to be seen. I wanted to see everything, but three days is really not enough to take it all in. So, with [...]

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