Last night, 6ABC Action News aired a segment on “What You WIll” with Don Polec! If you didn’t catch it last night, you can see it here!
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news%2Fdon_polec&id=6669549
Last night, 6ABC Action News aired a segment on “What You WIll” with Don Polec! If you didn’t catch it last night, you can see it here!
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news%2Fdon_polec&id=6669549
Tonight is first preview of “What You Will”. We can’t wait to see you all at theatre and get your feedback on our hard work on our blog

Trevor Vaughn as Feste in "What You Will"
Every time I leave the theater, even if it’s just for our 10 minute break in rehearsal, I find myself looking to my right at the river. I sometimes see birds on blocks of ice floating down the river. This is one thing I’ll always remember about Bristol.
I am starting to feel quite at home here. I think it’s taken a while because I’ve been back to New York a few times since coming to Bristol, but I have gotten used to the rhythm.
I’m looking forward to opening so that I can use the days to explore.
As always happens, you’re going along rehearsing and suddenly it’s almost time to go into the week when we add lights, sound, costumes and real props. That’s when you remember what a temporary thing it all is, and you better start savoring it.
In December 2008 “ What you Will” started for me with a cast list of names and email addresses. After several e-mails and phone calls to arrange transportation and housing for this group of very talented artists, it finally comes together with a putting face to name meeting as they arrive to begin work on this World Premiere event. We trade backgrounds, thoughts and good humoring words about this and that. Work for them is just beginning. For me to watch the likes of such talented, well-known men as Mr. Keith Baker and Donald Byrd put hip hop, Shakespeare and this cast together is totally amazing and very fascinating to say the least. I watch them daily and sometimes just stare in awe as they all put this wonderful event together. I see everything from cast members in the lobby and backstage learning lines and moves, to directors, musicians, stage managers, lighting and stage crews working hard and long hours to make it all happen. I am very proud and thrilled to be a part of it all. I must mention all the behind the scenes staff from the head office folks who keep us all going strong and happy,(and laughing) to the promotion and box office group who bring us the audiences and special deals. I am anxiously looking forward to this opening nights performance, to see the reactions from the audience, volunteers, cast, crew and the satisfaction from the directors. For me that’s what this is all about. A Job well Done by all….“What you Will” is what it is.

BRT and Anthony's on the Delaware team up!

BRT and Anthony's on the Delaware team up!
If you could ask a BRT actor, director, or designer one question, what would it be?
Life is one big soap opera in Illyria – a country where everyone is very much in earnest, but also a little insane. The social center of Illyria, Club 12th Night, marks the boundary between games and masquerades and the business of the workaday world, a place where pranks and disguises, playful games and folly rule.
A shipwrecked woman enters the fantastic Club 12th Night, beginning a chain of events that lead to an astonishing conclusion. Mistaken identities, intrigue, music, a beautiful heiress, merry drunken revelers, and a spiteful servant merge with a hip–hop rhythm in Shakespeare’s enchanting tale of revelry and love. Hopeless romantics will be captivated and pranksters will discover the ultimate joke.
Directed by BRT’s Artistic Director, Keith Baker and Donald Byrd, acclaimed Broadway choreographer (The Color Purple) and Artistic Director of Seattle’s Spectrum Dance Theater. Original hip-hop score by Justin Ellington. Set and costumes designed by Hiroshi Iwasaki, lighting design by Ryan O’Gara.