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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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audiences, collaboration, community, conversation starter, festivals, ideas, theatrical ecosystem, video, watch this
Watch This: Festivals + Community
Live from the stage of Actors Theatre of Louisville, a panel discussion about festivals and community. From the Humana Festival of New American Plays to the IdeaFestival, Louisville, Kentucky, is home to a growing variety of high-profile festivals that celebrate the arts and culture, reflecting the joy of conversation and community in our city. Why [...]
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advocacy, audiences, conversation starter, ideas, non-profit theatre, rabble rousing, supply / demand, theatrical ecosystem
Just What Are We Supplying?
03.04.11 | Permalink | 6 CommentsSupply, Demand, and Quality in the American Theater Or, Just What Are We Supplying? NEA chair Rocco Landesman’s comments at the recent Arena Stage New Works convening – that we have a supply and demand issue in the American Theater, and that we should consider decreasing supply – has started a welcome controversy in the [...]
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audiences, conversation starter, facts + figures, ideas, producers
Spider-Man: Broadway Isn’t The Finish Line
02.17.11 | Permalink | 5 CommentsThe New York critics have weighed in, so what’s left? What I haven’t heard mentioned in articles and reviews about Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark is that, in 2011, for a mega-musical of this kind, Broadway is just an out-of-town tryout. Instead, the producers’ goal is to have a show that will eventually be up and running in [...]
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audiences, conversation starter, development, rabble rousing
Their Entrances and Their Exits
02.09.11 | Permalink | 5 CommentsOn the Life-cycle of the Theatre Lover Your patrons are all very old. They’re all going to die. What on earth will you do? Oh, dear. You’d better invest all your time and money into getting young people to come to the theatre, or in a few years, you’ll be alone and starving. Except you [...]
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advocacy, audiences, conversation starter, development, ideas, major regional theatre, marketing, new plays, non-profit theatre, playwrights, presenting, producers, rabble rousing, the process, theatrical ecosystem
#Newplay: The Undelivered Rant
02.03.11 | Permalink | 3 CommentsIndulge me in a little rhetorical drama, I have, on occasion, so indulged many of you. The USA needs theatre. We are a potentially free and democratic people, but when the citizens become disenchanted and politically disengaged, we disenfranchise ourselves and cede leadership to those who can tolerate swimming in a political cesspool. Theatre makes [...]
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advocacy, audiences, development, devised work, dramaturgy, marketing, social media, the process
Your Real Theater Job
01.10.11 | Permalink | 5 CommentsYour real job is relationships. No new surprise there. You build relationships through shared meaning and narrative. Still, no great revelation. Meaning is through shared language. What are you creating to bring new language to the collective discussion? Dr. Seuss (a master in the use of language) put it best when he wrote the book [...]
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actors, audiences, conversation starter, follow friday, ideas, playwrights, rabble rousing, social media, the process, theatrical ecosystem
Follow Friday: 22 October 2010
10.22.10 | Permalink | 3 CommentsLooks like everyone’s wrestling this week, whether it’s playwrights & critics, casts & audiences, critics & artistic directors, journalists & editors… We’ve also been thinking, arguing and questioning what we do and why we do it. We even get a little political, but only a little. And there’s no intermission. (Unless you want one.) This [...]
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actors, audiences, conversation starter, directors, ideas, major regional theatre, marketing, non-profit theatre, playwrights, presenting, theatrical ecosystem
The Jewel Box
10.20.10 | Permalink | 2 CommentsWe all have regrets. We have the shows we almost saw, the times when we didn’t quite make it out the door, didn’t cross town, and then the show we wanted to see existed on Earth no more. It happened without us. We so wanted to go. We were tired, or we were distracted, or the cost was too [...]
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