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• Diversity, social profit, the future

  Move the Goal Line

  03.19.13 | Permalink | Comment?

  If you have sat around a computer for any length of time over the last five years hashing out any of the ‘issues’ around (particularly) American Theatre you have found yourself invariably infuriated, sullen, and withdraw because the topics are circular and, because the answers are hard, evergreen. I swear I have quit this conversation [...]

• #2amt, #tawg, advocacy, community, conversation starter, rabble rousing, talk about what's good

  Ordering off the menu

  02.04.13 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  I grew up in a household that was… healthy. Healthy healthy. Lima (bean) burgers, grinding grain blends for homemade bread, fresh milk from family friends who ran a small farm… my folks idea of retirement was decamping the suburbs and repairing to a 10 acre tract further north in New Hampshire so they could farm [...]

• conversation starter

  Killing that old black magic

  11.27.12 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  If you’re wise, even just a little wise, you don’t blurt out the literal first thing that comes to your mind. Your first response may be the truest, it may be right, but unfiltered conversation is seldom advisable no matter how entertaining. You of course should always record your first impulse and dissect it later [...]

• festivals

  Fringe: Big Tent

  09.04.12 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  In another life I was the assistant production manager at the Exit Theatre in San Francisco. Mostly that meant mopping and house managing and babysitting load-ins but the Exit is also the home of the San Francisco Fringe Festival. I loved that month every year. We work in a field that is mostly siloed into [...]

• rabble rousing, talk about what's good

  First Steps. Next Steps.

  08.09.12 | Permalink | Comment?

  On early Monday, August 6th – right after my densest stretch of work in a long time – I got to join in the collective joy that was the landing of the Curiosity rover on Mars.I was crying on my couch at headset chatter and strangers eating peanuts. I hadn’t personally accomplished a single thing [...]

• arts administration, audiences, community, development, neverbedark, new play development, new plays, the process

  Well if you’re so smart

  08.09.12 | Permalink | 26 Comments

  The ease of publishing in this post-Millennial moment means that a lot of half and semi-baked ideas get pushed into the universe, and the lack of friction to respond combined with the relative lack of consequence of narrowcasting your opinions means that a lot of folks get to talk an awfully big game without anyone [...]

• development, education, history, talk about what's good

  Repeats

  06.12.12 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  No matter how deeply you bury yourself in new plays and new play creation and theory, theatre remains largely a reflection of where we’ve been (check your local listings). Right now I’m in two shows that combined are more than 800 years old. So the tone of this Culturebot article is bizarre to me. The [...]

• #2amt, international

  Just another day

  03.27.12 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  It’s March 27th again. A day stamped by UNESCO as World Theatre Day 50 years ago in that way that organizations will… slapping a name on a day as though that could make it special. It can’t of course. And every year there is a susurration of tuts and tsks from the keyboards of those [...]

• #2amt, #stealthisidea, cities, community, conversation starter, neverbedark, new play development, new plays

  Let’s Get Vertical (Vertical)

  01.23.12 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  On my own blog some time ago I wrote about smaller and regional theatres being considered “minor league” in the pejorative sense and the broken ideas around that vocabulary in a post called “Is this Heaven, No It’s Iowa”. The happy upbeat ending for those of you too good to click through is the idea [...]

• advocacy, community, conversation starter

  I’m nobody! Who are you?

  11.14.11 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  I’m nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there’s a pair of us — don’t tell! They’d banish us, you know. How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a frog To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog! ~Emily Dickinson I am Michael Kaiser’s nightmare. I don’t have an [...]

• advocacy, arts service organizations, charity, collaboration, community, funding and support, partnerships, spotlight, talk about what's good, the future

  A Little Conspiracy

  08.17.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  The theatre niche of the social media stream operates much like any other Animal Farm and in this particular backwater Animal Farm I am a donkey who has lived a long time. Hang around long enough and one sees the patterns of people entering and leaving or the ebbs and flows of the heat of the conversation. One [...]

• 2amt podcast, collaboration, community, devised work, spotlight, storefront theatre, the process, video

  2amt Podcast: Rubber Repertory

  04.22.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 31:43 — 29.0MB)

  Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 31:43 — 29.0MB) Subscribe to the 2amt podcast in iTunes. There’s an aggressive sort of experimental theatre that longs to prove not just how smart it is, but how much smarter it is than you. Or how much more grad school it went to. Rubber Repertory is [...]