Performance Art.  Spoken Word.  Don’t stop reading yet. David Sedaris comes to my town fairly often, once or twice a year.  He can fill up a 4,000-seat theater, or quickly sell out an eight-night run at a smaller one. Last year, the ...

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The Washington, DC area loves Shakespeare.  I’m not sure I can say why, exactly – perhaps he’s the most bi-partisan playwright – but the facts are indisputable.  Year after year, the Shakespeare Theatre Company, the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, the Folger ...

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It's said that if a butterfly flaps its wings in Illinois, it can cause a rainstorm in Brazil. I'm not sure how meteorologically sound that is, but it certainly holds true in the world of social media. In today's podcast, ...

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It should be clear that we at 2amt like Twitter just fine. But where do you draw the line? After this story about how some theatres in Australia are using Twitter during performances, an idea that some theatres ...

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If you are part of an active participant organization with a shot at the top 200 in Chase Community Giving, you might want to read this tomorrow, after your adrenaline levels have returned to normal. This is likely to just annoy ...

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I’m currently working my way through the fantastic book Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age by Clay Shirky, the author of Here Comes Everybody, and boy does it ever make me think of our very own #2amt ...

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By popular demand, it's the debut of the first 2amt podcast. This time out, Jax Steager visits the Hollywood Fringe Festival and interviews Ben Hill, producing director of the Hollywood Fringe, with snippets of interviews with Alexa Hanrahan, support director, and ...

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What do you think of when you think of the word brand?  Do you think, first and foremost, of a logo?  The swirled “G” of the Guthrie Theatre?  The lowercase red-and-white “tkts” next to the discount booths in New York, ...

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Some more pull quotes, this time a quick conversation from Twitter between playwright Kristoffer Diaz and Tony Adams, artistic director of Halcyon Theatre in Chicago, maybe spinning off a little from comments on yesterday's post about scripts and AD's...

Being a part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival (HFF) was amazing. When my co-producer and I signed up as a project, I wasn’t sure what to expect. I had never produced before. I just figured that my project management skills ...

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Disruptive technology and disruptive innovation are terms used in business and technology literature to describe innovations that improve a product or service in ways that the market does not expect, typically by being lower priced or designed for a different ...

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While we're putting together some audio treats from my adventure at the Hollywood Fringe, here are some visual tidbits--photos from the first couple of days of the first annual festival.