Mary Poppins kids

Working with the Mary Poppins kids

Shane AnnRehearsals

The Mary Poppins kids I work with on the Broadway production are pretty incredible.  They range in ages from eight years old to twelve years old and when other children their age are out playing soccer or going to ballet classes or playing baseball, they are at dance rehearsals or blocking rehearsals or put-in rehearsals or dialect/diction rehearsals.  For such …

Jeff Whitty

A Different “Hedda Gabler” written by Jeff Whitty

Shane AnnProductions

This last weekend, I saw a fascinating production called “The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler written by Jeff Whitty.  Jeff was my student at NYU in the Graduate Acting program and I still remember the first play he wrote.  It was for “Free Play” which is a Third Project where the students write, produce and act in their own productions. …