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#2amt, #stealthisidea, cities, community, conversation starter, neverbedark, new play development, new plays
Let’s Get Vertical (Vertical)
01.23.12 | Permalink | 4 CommentsOn 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 [...]
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advocacy, community, conversation starter
I’m nobody! Who are you?
11.14.11 | Permalink | 3 CommentsI’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 [...]
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advocacy, arts service organizations, charity, collaboration, community, funding and support, partnerships, spotlight, talk about what's good, the future
A Little Conspiracy
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 [...]
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about 2am, advocacy, ideas, non-profit theatre, social media, storefront theatre, theatrical ecosystem
What We Talk About When We Talk About: #NeverBeDark
Some days the internet seems like nothing more than a jargon factory. It pops out new words, phrases and memes that we are somehow supposed to instinctively know moments after coinage and knowledge of the day’s watchword becomes a hard demarcation of inclusion or exclusion. It is imperative for those pockets of the internet that [...]
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advocacy, conversation starter, development, ideas, new plays, theatrical ecosystem
#Newplay: Austin
by Heather Bishop Gathered today at the Vortex Theater in Austin, Texas, members of Austin’s theater community watched final discussions from both ideological and practical perspectives. From Kristoffer Diaz’ points regarding the documentation of diversity efforts in theater and the definition of an American play regardless of accent or region to very moving points made [...]
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conversation starter, development, meetup, new plays, non-profit theatre, playwrights, presenting
#Newplay: New Orleans
FROM SOUTHERN REP, New Orleans, LA A CONVERSATION IN RESPONSE TO NEW PLAY PANEL When you talk about diversity – what does that really mean? If your audience doesn’t reflect that – what is diverse? If you want a diverse audience, are you doing work that would reflect that? Only the institution knows what kinds [...]
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conversation starter, development, facts + figures, funding and support, ideas, new plays
The Long Tail of the NEA
01.27.11 | Permalink | 5 CommentsIt’s easy to get swamped during the Arena Stage Convenings.There is a lot going on and a lot of theoretical conversation. The hardest workin’ folks in show business are trying to fix some part of show business and let me tell you: it’s invigorating. I’ve been on the ground at one of these things, sometimes [...]
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about 2am, social media
We’d like to welcome: Suzi Steffen
As part of our efforts to solidify the beginnings made last year in the dawn of 2amTheatre.com, we will be rolling out some programmatic additions. Let’s start with: award winning arts maven Suzi Steffen. Suzi will be joining 2amTheatre.com as a contributor, kicking off her stay with us with wall-to-wall coverage of the Fertile Ground [...]
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development, ideas, playwrights, rabble rousing, social media, the process
Punching Holes in Walls
11.22.10 | Permalink | 2 CommentsA lot of the cross talk that happens on the #2amt tag on Twitter is, at its core, about gatekeepers. Who they are, why they exist, why we want them not to exist and what can or should we do about them. Outrageous Fortune is a story of gates and gate keepers. Getting a play [...]
