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audiences
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audiences, augmented reality, conversation starter, new technology, rabble rousing, social media, storytelling, the process, transmedia
I Came, I Tweeted, I Pondered
Over the past week or so I have been near the center of exchanges about theatre and social media that feel alternately like discussions, vent sessions, and policy ponderings. Social media and theatre and the mix of both — discuss. And when you add in questions of the directionality of the media stream and who [...]
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audiences, broadway, collaboration, conferences, conversation starter, ideas, presenting, producers, rabble rousing, social media, theatrical ecosystem
Just a Dream Away
There’s a great, big, beautiful tomorrow Shining at the end of every day There’s a great, big, beautiful tomorrow And tomorrow’s just a dream away Walking into the darkened New World Stages for TEDxBroadway, I half expected to see a sign saying “Presented by General Electric,” or at least a robot welcoming me to the [...]
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arts service organizations, audiences, charity, community, Uncategorized
The Conversation After The Show
01.25.12 | Permalink | 4 CommentsWhen a theater is only open to the public for 15 minutes before and after a performance—and is otherwise closed and locked, with the public let in and, if necessary, kicked out—the question arises of how to make the performing arts a conversation, a participatory activity more articulated than active listening. Here’s a simple story of [...]
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#2amt, actors, audiences, directors, dramaturgy
Stoopid Shakespeare
01.20.12 | Permalink | 4 CommentsAn exuberant conversation, hosted by Peter Marks and Howard Sherman, broke out on Twitter yesterday about Shakespeare; many good ideas were debated and discussed. I am writing this post to delve more deeply into one of the fundamental questions about Shakespeare in performance, which is, after all, his native habitat. Shakespeare in performance should be, [...]
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#2amt, #stealthisidea, arts administration, audiences, conversation starter, crowdsourcing, ideas, locavore, marketing, steal this idea
Steal This Idea: The Only Winter Theater Pitch You’ll Ever Need
Sometimes its not the information you consume, it’s how you use it: Fertile Ground Festival Project Lear’s Follies did a clever thing recently. They snagged a link that was much shared around #2amt circles (the Marie Claire article about theatre being behind only sex and exercise for creating happiness)and turned it into an irrefutable, ingenious [...]
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arts administration, audiences, festivals, locavore, marketing, new play development, new plays, new technology, non-profit theatre, playwrights, presenting, social media, steal this idea, storytelling, the future, theatre festivals, video, watch this
Steal This Idea: Cutting Your Way Through the NEVER HEARD OF IT Barrier
As the founder and now social media manager for Portland’s Fertile Ground Festival, I have recently had the delightful and curious experience of being able to dip my finger daily into the stream of material our 100 plus world premiere projects have created to promote their shows. I asked myself, how can I harness this [...]
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audiences, conversation starter, rabble rousing
Walk
10.25.11 | Permalink | 7 CommentsOver the past 48 hours, the culture pages in England have been filled with reports which are all variants of the same story: “Walkouts abound at The Royal Shakespeare Company’s Marat/Sade.” I first spotted this on Sunday in The Daily Mail and since then, the BBC, The Guardian and The Telegraph, among many others, have [...]
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audiences, community
Blue
I suspect that, for many working in the arts, the weekday matinee is no man’s land. I’m not suggesting that we don’t operate them, or deal with them, but I do wonder the last time any of you have had occasion to attend one as a member of the audience. After all, we’re usually too [...]
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audiences, facts + figures, funding and support, rabble rousing, theatrical ecosystem
Gross
10.11.11 | Permalink | 9 CommentsThey come, with startling regularity, on Monday and Tuesday each week. “The Grosses.” The Broadway League aggregates and releases the gross sales and attendance for every Broadway show on Monday afternoons (Tuesdays when there’s been a holiday), and a wide range of outlets dutifully report on the biggest hits, the biggest losers, and prognosticate on [...]
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audiences, critics, marketing, p.r., public relations, pull quotes, social media
Blurb
“Everyone,” I wrote in a tweet to promote my previous blog post, “enjoys a good blurbing now and again.” Although I didn’t mind if someone read some perverse double entendre into “blurbing,” it was neither euphemism nor metaphor. I was referring to the time-honored and oft-criticized practice of skillfully extracting positive phrases from arts reportage [...]
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audiences, collaboration, corporate sponsors, designers, development, devised work, directors, dramaturgy, funding and support, ideas, new plays, non-profit theatre, playwrights, presenting, producers, the process
Devised Theatre: Transitioning to Production
Previously in this column: The members of Bright Alchemy Theatre, a very young devised theatre company based in Washington, DC, have spent the last nine months working on its new project which began with the question: Why do we as a species feel the need to tell stories about our own destruction? This weekend, for [...]
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audiences, conversation starter, Uncategorized
Do you really want to be like Apple?
08.30.11 | Permalink | 7 CommentsI promise, this is not another premature eulogy for Steve Jobs. I saw this on Google+ this morning. This is an old video of Steve Jobs responding to a critic at the World Wide Developers Conference in 1997, shortly after Jobs returned to Apple. One thing immediately jumped out at me… In the context of [...]
