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In the early days, I might have gotten on stage and begun to sing as a desperate attempt to communicate, but now I found that singing was both a physi...more

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Powerpoint presentations are a kind of theater, a kind of augmented stand-up. Too often it's a boring and tedious genre, and audiences are subjected t...more

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In musical performances one can sense that the person on stage is having a good time even if they're singing a song about breaking up or being in a ba...more

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One forgets that part of one's performance is one's history—or sometimes the lack of it. You're playing against what an audience knows, what they expe...more

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I also realized that there were lots of unacknowledged theater forms going on all around. Our lives are filled with performances that have been so wov...more