As the clock ticks down to its highly anticipated premiere, "The Girl WIth The Dragon Tattoo" will not only take theaters by storm, it will sweep up and entirely change the life of its star, Rooney Mara.
The group also takes theater programs into local schools.
Bay Area performers taking theater out of theaters is nothing new, of course — in the late '60s and '70s, thanks to influential countercultural groups like the Diggers and the S.F.
She also took theater workshops at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, and in 2007 moved to New York for a few years to take acting classes from Susan Batson at Black Nexxus.
During his years at the college, he developed a program that took theater to the inmates at Rikers Island.
In a city that takes theater very seriously, Kama Ginkas was arguably the most successful director of the season that just ended.
The name they took (Theater of the New Moon) comes from a poem by Bertolt Brecht and reflected the company's founding hope to discover the new in the old.
"We need to start finding work that has rigor and integrity — or a total lack of it, like this — that takes theater out of black boxes because they're killing everybody," he said.
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Puppetry majors undergo highly intensive training that involves taking theater classes in other areas, like costume design and lighting, to add to their puppetry skills.
