Blog by Rich

Resurrection! Sean Benson has found it in fourteen of Shakespeare’s plays. Sometimes the theme is spot on, as when Juliet is drugged so as to appear quite dead before coming back to a tragically short life, but in Shakespearian Resurrection: The Art of Almost Raising the Dead, Benson says Shakespea...

Here are links to the things I'm talking about in today's faculty devotion.

Penn Jillette: "How much do you have to hate someone not to share what you believe?" 

Hollywood Reporter interview with Emmy winner Tony Hale: Tony Hale on 'Arrested 

Development': 'It Didn't Satisfy M...

Totally convincing as the "land speculator swindler" using just a twinkle in his eyes and a crooked smile, such is the mastery of actor Rich Swingle, in Alone Yet Not Alone.
--George Escobar
co-director of Alone Yet Not Alone

Last week I was interviewed for radio and television on The Dove, and it just posted:

//www.youtube.com/embed/4wfl0ADyr9Q

I talked about our work in Russia during the Winter Olympics, the MasterWorks Festival and  Alone Yet Not Alone, the film in theaters right now in which I play a land specu...

After much discussion and prayer we have cast our MasterWorks Festival production of  Much Ado About Nothing with the following cast:

		Understudy
Benedick	Esh Ryans	Craig Fairbanks
Beatrice	Isabella Cardine	Tiffany Rott
Claudio	Timothy Bartlett	Zachary Mull
Hero	Rachel Marley	Kelly Stagner
Leonata	Morg...

We just received this from the folks that organized our work in Russia during the Olympics...

Engage Sochi partners and friends -
We have just finished working through all of the contact sheets for the Engage Sochi project and have been crunching the numbers. As you know, it was our goal that...

23 Blast opened in theaters October 24, 2014, and it's now available on DVD through Walmart and ChristianBook.com.

Our friend Dylan Baker (actor in Secretariat, Spider-Man 2 and 3) just screened his directorial debut in our building: 23 Blast. It's based on an unbelievable true story. T...

We had an extraordinary time in Sochi during the Olympics. This article tells some of our most exciting stories: Ukrainian-American finds open doors to share at Sochi Games

I'm starting this post at 2:49am. I'm just too wired to sleep after seeing a sneak preview of Moms' Night Out!

Not only am I jazzed because it's so well done, but because it's so inspiring! It really makes me want to do my part in getting other films like it into theatres.

Sarah Drew ( Grey's An...

We saw Heaven Is for Real and enjoyed it very much, as did the packed out theatre with us on Times Square. We forgot to ask if that screening was sold out, but we didn't see any empty seats.

I guess houses are being packed out everywhere.  Wednesday it was the number one film in America.

Our...

Rich Swingle will lead Cry of the Whole Congregation by Walter Wangerin, Jr., from his book The Ragman and Other Cries of Faith.

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