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• about 2am, conversation starter, ideas, meetups, rabble rousing, social media, theatre festivals, theatrical ecosystem, video, watch this

  Watch this: 2amt in the 3rd Dimension

  09.04.10 | Permalink | View Comments

  Want to see us live and direct from the first annual Chicago Fringe Festival? Streaming via the #newplay channel from Arena Stage, we go live at 10:30 am CT, 11:30 am ET, Saturday, September 4th, 2010. Kris Vire, theatre editor at Time Out Chicago, is the moderator. The panel includes Bilal Dardai of The Neo-Futurists [...]

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  Watch This: 2amt at the CT(a)C

  08.31.10 | Permalink | View Comments

  From the Chicago Theatre (anti) Conference held at the Theater Wit complex in Chicago, here’s the 2amt session, featuring Nick Keenan and myself as recorded by Kyle Hamman… 2amtheatre Talk at Chicago Theatre (anti) Conference from KBH Media on Vimeo. It’s a fun talk (as I recall) and should whet your appetite for this weekend’s [...]

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  Meatspace is like #2amt Squared

  05.07.10 | Permalink | View Comments

  I recently had the opportunity to meet up IRL (in real life) with @scottyiseri and @Chris_Ashworth, two gentlemen whose thoughts I have been following regularly through the #2amt hashtag on Twitter. Each time I was astonished, once again, at the value of translating the “idea” of a person… the strange amalgam of avatar, blog thoughts [...]

• about 2am, audiences, ideas, marketing, social media

  Top 5 Ways NOT to Build a Younger Audience

  04.30.10 | Permalink | View Comments

  It popped up in my newsfeed again: another article about an opera/museum/symphony theater company’s new initiatives to attract a “younger audience.” I open these articles with a combination of dread and excitement these days. Maybe this time, this new organization (that spent a couple hundred thousand dollars on a market research study) will announce a [...]

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  A TheatreFace Chat about 2amt

  04.14.10 | Permalink | View Comments

  This week’s live chat over at TheatreFace.com featured 2amt, among other things… Here’s a transcript in case you missed it or aren’t a member of TheatreFace. (And if you’re not a member, why the heck not? Go on over to TheatreFace and join up. It’s free, it’s a lovely place to visit, we’re all over [...]

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  E is for effort.

  04.07.10 | Permalink | View Comments

  So there you are, surfing the Twitter streams with your interface of choice–sounds like something out of William Gibson, doesn’t it?–and up comes a tweet from one of the theatre companies you follow. There’s a link in the tweet. You’re curious, so you click on it. The next thing you know, you’re in Facebook, reading [...]

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  Nick Keenan, Web Ninja.

  02.24.10 | Permalink | View Comments

  We don’t normally pay attention to 2pm around here–or time at all, really, since it’s always 2am here–but this afternoon, you’d have been able to join in a chat at TheatreFace with our own 2am summit guru, Nick Keenan. Quite simply, if it weren’t for the ongoing conversations with Nick among others, there would be [...]

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  It’s too late. Unless it’s early.

  01.31.10 | Permalink | View Comments

  2am. You’re wondering why this is called 2am.  What does that have to do with theatre? 2am is when the ideas start to flow. The other week, over on Twitter, a group of theatre folk started talking, brainstorming, tossing out ideas and testing to see how they’d float.  Or if they’d float at all.  And [...]