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Rehearsal Process
Building a Rehearsal Schedule That Actually Gets You to Opening Night
A weekly rehearsal calendar looks simple until you try to fit every scene, every actor's availability, and a tech week into it — here's a method for splitting your hours sensibly.
The Page-a-Minute Rule: Estimating Your Show's Runtime
Directors have used a simple rule of thumb to estimate a script's stage time for decades — where it comes from, when it breaks down, and how to use it responsibly.
Planning a Production From Five Numbers
A production plan can be sketched in an evening from five figures, and having them early changes decisions that are expensive to change later.
Rehearsal Time Is a Budget — Divide It First
Rehearsal time feels abundant at the start of a process and runs out at the end, which is a sign it was never counted. It is a fixed budget, and it can be…
What the Page-a-Minute Rule Misses
A page of script runs about a minute. It is the most useful rule of thumb in theatre scheduling and it is wrong often enough to be worth understanding…