BARBARA SLOAN

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Theatre is my Life! Thoughts on Play Quotes: A book of Meditations for Each Day of the Year

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Play! Professor Dante Marlowe Browne’s Wonderfully Marvelous Amazing Historical Book of Playgoing Manners with Adventures and Anecdotes by his Friends Collins and Violet

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ABOUT ME:

I am a former theatre professor, a mother of two grown children and grandmother of five, an author and playwright, a teacher of higher consciousness, and world traveler. 

One of my missions in life is to help other people understand the healing, connecting, exciting, self-esteem boosting power of the arts, and to encourage creativity in others. If you are in agreement, keep reading!

ABOUT MY WORKS:

"Theatre Is My Life!" is a collection of memories, meditations, life lessons, and theatre-related short stories. A second edition is out now!

My newest book Play!, a book on theatre manners for children, is now published by SBA Books. It is available on Amazon, and illustrated beautifully by Jarrett Rutland.

My blog.

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When Our Hearts Remember
When Our Hearts Remember

As another September arrives, I look back at some tender memories stirred by the enchanting song, “Try to Remember” from the musical The Fantasticks. What recollections does this familiar melody rouse in you today?

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When the Queen of the Night Comes Calling
When the Queen of the Night Comes Calling

Mozart’s Queen of the Night may belong to the opera house, but I’ve discovered that she sometimes makes house calls. A look back at designing The Magic Flute leads to some very present-day thoughts about sleepless nights, the questions we ask in darkness, and the light that changes our perspective.

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For One Season in Their Very Long Lives
For One Season in Their Very Long Lives

What does it mean to spend a lifetime bringing the words of Sophocles, Shakespeare, Molière, Eliot, Wilder, Williams, and other great playwrights to life?

Every production begins at zero. The actors gather, the words live again, and eventually the scenery comes down and the costumes return to their racks. The production disappears. But the play remains.

In For One Season in Their Very Long Lives, I reflect on the astonishing privilege of having been entrusted, for a little while, with some of the world's great plays.

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The People Who Never Walk Onstage: Five Invisible Characters Who Steal the Show
The People Who Never Walk Onstage: Five Invisible Characters Who Steal the Show

The People Who Never Walk Onstage: Five unforgettable plays reveal one of theatre's quietest mysteries. Sometimes the characters we never see shape the story more profoundly than those standing in the spotlight.

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