And working in theater taught me that it was all about being respectful of the team.
Sokolove's own experience being wowed by Volpe's charges becomes the implicit dramatic arc, as he recognizes, with admiration, how theater "teaches the opposite of what I learned in sports, in which the model is that there is no self, no emotional landscape or core.... To look within, to feel or imagine, is not encouraged".
Pushing up from below is an emerging, more specialized brand of music theater, taught in a thriving network of schools and workshops, that keeps one eye planted on tradition and whose greatest talent is Mr. Guettel, whose score for "The Light in the Piazza" won the Tony last season.
The third and final course being offered this semester is a yearlong introduction to dance theater taught by Emily Coates, a Yale graduate who dances for Yvonne Rainer and is the artistic director of the university's World Performance Project, which Professor Roach founded with a grant from the Mellon Foundation.
"Theater teaches so much more than learning lines," Fike said.
His mother is on the board of the American Musicals Project, in New York, a nonprofit organization that uses musical theater in teaching English and history in New York public schools.
Since then she spends much of the year in Wilmington, directing plays on the city's busy theater scene, teaching master classes and running the Red Barn Studio Theater with her husband, Steve Bakunas, an actor and artist she met in Wilmington and married in 2005.
His first solo project there, Inner-City Arts, completed in 1995 and expanded in 2002, was an entrancing enclave of sculptured stucco-clad buildings — a theater, library, teaching spaces and ceramics studios — for after-school arts programs at the edge of skid row.
My wife started her own theater company, teaching acting and performance, so she's found her niche.
