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watch live Professor Michael McIntyre teaches directing, acting, as well as writing, history and the classics. Students enrolled in his classes get the rare opportunity to use their own scripts, select actors to fill the characters, and learn to direct by showcasing their talents and skills in front of an audience at the end of the school year. Needless to say, it is challenging during the best of times, during the most “normal years.” The 2020-2021 school year has been none of that. The fall of 2020 and spring semester of 2021 have been challenging like no other year. Students and faculty alike have had to adapt, reschedule, regroup after anyone received a positive test, and then it’s rehearsals after rehearsals. Even then, few felt everything was “right.” But they kept on, did run-throughs and with cast support, the end results are wonderful. What tomorrow shows are perseverance and downright hard work. Few could do better and fewer still would have tried. But ....