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advocacy, audiences, collaboration, community, conversation starter, funding and support, ideas, non-profit theatre, producers, rabble rousing, supply / demand, talk about what's good, the future, the process, theatrical ecosystem
What You’ve Never Had
08.24.11 | Permalink | 11 CommentsThe non-profit model is living on borrowed time. The current model is dying. Even still, I think we spend more time trying to figure out how to fund a show than actually making the show. Read: The way we make money to make art is not sustainable. Insanity: Doing the same thing again and again [...]
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audiences, community, dramaturgy, new plays, non-profit theatre, playwrights, rabble rousing, the future, the process, theatrical ecosystem
The Intersection of Culture and Narrative
07.12.11 | Permalink | 5 CommentsIt’s been a month since the first Dramatists Guild National Conference. In that month, three things have stayed with me: Mame Hunt’s declaration to playwrights to stop writing realism, Julia Jordan’s keynote speech on gender parity, and Marsha Norman’s comment that we need to hear everyone’s stories at the gender parity panel discussion. All three [...]
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audiences, augmented reality, community, conversation starter, ideas, new technology, rabble rousing, social media, the future
The New Wild West
07.07.11 | Permalink | 16 Commentsor, How Meta-Conversations are Taking Over Our Theatres Photo illustration featuring members of American Theater Company. (William DeShazer/Tribune / July 2, 2011) My friend Briana, a brilliant arts educator and visual artist, alerted me (via a tag on Facebook) to an article about the rising phenomenon of texting in the theater and asked me, as [...]
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audiences, conversation starter, corporate sponsors, development, directors, education, ideas, new plays, producers, sponsorship, technical work, the future, the process, theatrical ecosystem
Do whatever a spider can.
07.07.11 | Permalink | 3 CommentsIn case you’ve been in a coma for the last year, there’s this Broadway musical, it’s called Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, and it’s made some headlines. There were accidents and script problems and fights with critics and the official opening kept being pushed further back and back and back and…etc. Basically, it redefined the [...]
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arts administrators, audiences, funding and support, marketing
Reviews and Pull Quotes: Telling The Truth and Courting The Indifferent
“THE CRITICS AGREE!” Urban legend or not, this was the marquee tagline someone told me about years ago, something a theater company posted after their show received unanimously bad reviews. I like the integrity of it: not including the negative assessments on the marquee or poster, but still wanting to tell the truth. This morning—bright, [...]
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audiences, collaboration, conversation starter, development, devised work, ideas, new plays, playwrights, rabble rousing, social media, the process, Uncategorized
John Lahr is not a dumbass.
06.22.11 | Permalink | 5 CommentsJohn Lahr, New Yorker theater critic, wrote a piece on Julie Taymor’s frustration with the process of creating a new theatrical work in the era of instant feedback, Twitter, and focus groups. It’s a great piece, full of historical perspective on the role of audience (that is to say, amateur) criticisms of theater. He rubbed [...]
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audiences, conversation starter
Is Your Theatre A Boob Box?
06.05.11 | Permalink | 4 CommentsI’m not sure who coined the expression “boob tube” but its implication has always been clear to me: people who watch TV are boobs, simpletons, and lack common sense. Even as a kid, I never really understood this characterization of TV viewers because it was with TV that I first learned to express my autonomy. [...]
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advocacy, audiences, collaboration, community, conversation starter, corporate sponsors, facts + figures, follow friday, ideas, major regional theatre, partnerships, playwrights, rabble rousing, social media, theatrical ecosystem
Follow Friday: 03 June 2011
The Follow Friday posts are back! We look at communities remembering their own stories and pulling together to give to the arts, philanthropy from donors and from theatre companies themselves, playwrights living in towns small and large. We also look at theatre companies working together and, well, working at all. And we check into the [...]
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2amt events, 360 storytelling, audiences, community, ideas, social media
A 360 in Practice
A few weeks ago, I felt like a time-traveling documentarian. My theatre company, Glass Mind Theatre, decided to host a 360 Storytelling event, as developed by 2amt. We went with the theme of “The One” to celebrate our first official season. A few company members – not including myself – and some invited storytellers in [...]
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arts administrators, arts service organizations, audiences, conversation starter, marketing, producers
What Every Theater Website Needs
04.09.11 | Permalink | 10 CommentsPlease. If you are a board member, artist, or employee of a theater company, understand that most people are not visiting your website because they like you, or because they want to like you. First and foremost, they are visiting your website for information. All the glossy photos, taglines, and rave reviews will not give [...]
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advocacy, audiences, collaboration, community, conversation starter, festivals, ideas, new plays, partnerships, presenting, rabble rousing, social media, theatrical ecosystem
Ask Not.
04.05.11 | Permalink | 2 CommentsAsk not what your country can do for the arts, ask what the arts can do for the country. — Kevin Spacey The 24th Annual Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy April 4, 2011, 6:30 p.m. John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts At exactly the same time as Kevin Spacey was [...]
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2amt events, audiences, collaboration, community, conversation starter, festivals, ideas, major regional theatre, new plays, partnerships, rabble rousing, social media, theatre festivals, theatrical ecosystem
HF35: The 2amt Challenge
So you’re at the Humana Festival of New American Plays and you’ve got a few minutes. You’ve seen the art, you’ve looked at the gifts, you’ve had a beer. Maybe you’re in the mood to play a game. Maybe you’re looking for something to engage audiences at your own theatre company. Take the 2amt challenge. [...]
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