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Cynthia Onyedinmanasu ChinasaokwuErivo is an English actress. Last week she was a judge on "RuPauls Drag Race." When one of the contestants asked for advice for her growing popularity, Ms. Erivo said, “Surround yourself with good people.” I discovered this is common advice in the entertainment business. In fact, entertainment people prefer a small group of friends and associates in their world. For many who are famous, it is profound how small their group of trusted associates are....

Pamela Sterling’s play "LOUISA MAY ALCOTT: THE POWER OF A WOMAN" will be produced by Hanford Multicultural Theater Company. HMTC is discovering all that makes Pamela tick before her production locally. This is the second column dedicated to this power of a woman, Pamela Sterling. An actress, playwright, director, theater educator, and former arts administrator. In last week’s column, Pamela discussed the free acting and performance opportunities from her youth funded by The Oregonian....

I have been making puppets for Grace Cha’s Korean American story that has been adapted to the puppet stage. As I put the finishing touches on two of the puppets, I start to mentally build a creative team to help bring the show to fruition. It is a lot of fun to put together creative people. Our theater is intended for people to have a place to create and have their creativity flourish. But what does creativity really mean? I recently read a scientific description of creativity which made ...

In the last three years I have seen three attempted coups on public entities. The most internationally visible and heartbreaking was at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The most local was two nonprofits in Kings County. In all three there was inciting with fallacies with the intent to commandeer the entities. The Kings County nonprofit entities had to combat these coup schemers with an attorney. The capital has to combat them with congress. HMTC is a nonprofit. It is one of over three hundred regis...

This last day of the 2020 year is going to be more than welcomed by the world. Especially the entertainment sector. The shutdowns from Coronavirus strangled theaters and entertainment businesses. Some still exist. Some are in hibernation. Some will never return. Whatever entertainment businesses are left are in hope-mode for the 2021 year.   HMTC hopes to do a reading of a play I wrote about the Mussel Slough Tragedy. It was planned for the 140 th anniversary last May. Well, we will do a ...

The Rockette’s Radio City Christmas Spectacular aired on television recently. It was the first time since 1933 that the Rockettes hadn’t performed at the historic New York City theater. As we all know by now, Broadway is closed and has been since March to circumvent the spread of COVID-19. The Broadway League has just announced another extension of the stage shutdown. At least through May 31, 2021. Obviously, hearts and pocketbooks are broken for workers on Broadway from the decision ...