In our third episode of the sub-series, we're joined by artist/hypnotherapist extraordinaire, Rachel Collignon -- in an episode hosted by Bluebird's Gracie Rittenberg!

Taking us through her actor-to-therapist pipeline, it turns out there’s a whole lot more that connects our neural and life pathways than meets the eye. When she’s not on a stage or on a set, Rachel Collignon is guiding her hypnotherapy clients to their full potential. Here’s the transcript of Rachel and Gracie’s conversation. If you’d prefer to listen to it, you can find the episode wherever you get your podcasts.

On the intimate Lower East Side stage of Teatro Latea, lights came up on April 26th, 28th, and 30th to reveal Halston’s Amitha. Written by Tannasia Gonzalez and directed by Albert Xavier, the production made it’s Off-Broadway debut at the New York Theater Festival for the Spring/Summer lineup.

On the latest episode of Bluebird Broadcast’s sub-series, Tell Me About It, I had the pleasure of talking to two young artists whose work you better keep an eye out for, and the strides they are bound to make in the industry. Having recently written, produced, and brought into the world a new short film — as I had to call it, “a feast for the senses” — Maya Shoham and Max Cattana very transparently shared just what went into the making of Midnight Cannoli.

Inspired by Euripides’ The Bacchae, the play explores our relationship to technology and how it affects our ability to connect with others and ourselves. Raving Reason is a new play written by Penny Fylaktaki, conceived and developed by Ioanna Katsarou & Penny Fylaktaki, and directed by Ioanna Katsarou at the LaGuardia Center for Performing Arts. It was produced by Eclipses Group Theater NY.

Throughout Metamorphoses, storytelling demonstrates its enduring power as part of our ability to live and comprehend tumultuous love, desperate passion, remorseless fate, inevitable death -- and as its title suggests -- change.

Restrictions have been around for years for Actors Equity Association, meaning that in the so-called land of opportunity, Broadway, was intent on keeping its doors shut. The push to change these rules finally won over the AEA.

In moments like this, live performance could be more helpful than ever. To experience something in real-time with others, to have your heartbeats sync as you all listen and experience the same moment, never to be replayed again.