"Thanks to Matthew, I got my confidence back, and I don't think I could have done it without his gentle approach." Rosie Cosch studied with Matthew at HB Studio in NYC when she returned to her acting career after a child rearing hiatus. Read more

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COFFEE GROUNDS, KALEIDOSCOPES, AND CHARACTER: 

How the past is used to shape character, both our own, and the ones we play.

 

 

     Six women are sitting on a bench at a playground. They are watching a three-year-old boy high up on the jungle gym, his balance precarious, his little hands tiring, his grip tenuous. He slips a little, catches himself, and pauses, looking back at his mother. He tries to read her face for an indication as to what he should do. Each of the women on the bench feels a different emotion as they look at the child.

     The first woman remembers a time  . . . read more . . .

 

For the first time since 1968, Matthew Arkin and Adam Arkin will be playing brothers, starring in the reading of Steven Drukman's The Prince of Atlantis, which will kick off The Pacific Playwrights Festival at South Coast Repertory.

Choreographer Trey McIntyre founded the acclaimed Trey McIntyre Project in 2008, and has been called "one of ballet's most surprising talents" by The New York Times.

In discussing his creation "The Sweeter End," he gives a unique expression to the role that an artist's suffering plays in the creative process: "The most challenging thing has been, because of the subject matter, knowing fully well that it's going to bring up for me painful things, it's been the realization that that's just part of it . . ." read more and watch the video.