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A. Jason Jones: Keeping a 100-Year-Old Theatre Alive During COVID-19 Lockdown
Self-proclaimed "theatre brat" A. Jason Jones fell for the stage from an early age, but walked away for years before he came roaring back. Today, he directs and serves as board president at the historic Gaslight-Baker Theatre in Lockhart, Texas. His directing credits there include Hamlet, Arsenic and Old Lace, Frankenstein, Something Rotten!, Annie Get Your Gun and Godspell, and he recently returned to the stage himself in The Giver.
Ben and Jason dig into the nuanced but rewarding task of directing children on stage, the anxiety-inducing work of keeping a volunteer community theatre's doors…
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