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conversation starter
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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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#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, conferences, conversation starter, ideas, neverbedark, partnerships, rabble rousing, social profit, theatrical ecosystem
Side By Side By Side
01.23.12 | Permalink | 3 CommentsHappiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. — Tom Stoppard, The Real Thing Over at Arts Journal, they’re hosting a discussion & debate this week called Lead Or Follow? In their words, “Increasingly, audiences have more visibility for their opinions about the culture they consume. Cultural institutions know more and more about their audiences and their [...]
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#2femt, advocacy, conversation starter, playwrights, rabble rousing, theatrical ecosystem
#2femt: Can Women Write Good Plays?
01.21.12 | Permalink | 14 CommentsI’m 22 years old, a student at NYU’s Dramatic Writing Program. I’m sitting in a coffee shop, surrounded by friends. The topic of conversation is how a teacher admitted that he couldn’t name a female playwright he liked. I don’t know if this story is true. I don’t care since I don’t have a class [...]
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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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#2amt, advocacy, cities, community, conversation starter, ideas, newplay, partnerships, talk about what's good, the future, theatrical ecosystem
#Newplay: A New Day in D.C.
01.19.12 | Permalink | 2 CommentsI have spent the past couple days trying to get back into the real world. There is always this time period when you have taken a vacation and now need to get back to work and the world you put off for a week or so. While on vacation I pushed hard to try and [...]
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advocacy, conversation starter, dramaturgy, ideas, mission, new play development, playwrights, social profit, talk about what's good
Beyond the Bechdel Test
01.18.12 | Permalink | 3 CommentsSoon after I wrote this Forum Theatre post on the Bechdel Test, the question arose: what might be a similar test for LGBT characters? Being both gay and up for the challenge, I gave it a try. Here it is: The Test – Does the movie have? 1. An identifiable LGBT character 2. Who has [...]
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advocacy, arts administration, board members, conversation starter, ideas, non-profit theatre, rabble rousing, social profit, theatrical ecosystem
On Board
12.13.11 | Permalink | 3 CommentsA few weeks ago, during the TCG Fall Forum, I saw an interesting Twitter conversation and felt compelled to wade in. Kristoffer Diaz had written: Disappointed at the lack of response to question about non-financial contributions of potential board members. #tcgff My response was that every board member should give, though the amount might vary. [...]
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conversation starter, playwrights
The Robert Frost of Playwrights
12.05.11 | Permalink | 20 CommentsI am a tremendous admirer of the verses of Robert Frost. I’ve been studying his work for as long as I’ve been studying poetry, which is (at happens) more than a couple of decades now, and it continues to yield new discoveries for me. He was a prosodic genius—a fact that I fear goes largely [...]
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advocacy, charity, collaboration, community, conversation starter, funding and support, international, partnerships, social profit, theatrical ecosystem
Belarus Free Theatre: NOW
Early in 2011 the national and international theatrical community rallied together behind the Belarus Free Theatre as they struggled to find a way to not only continue their powerful work in the theatre, but bring awareness to the truth of the situation in their country of Belarus. Human rights infringements, horrors of torture, disappearances, and [...]
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advocacy, collaboration, community, conferences, conversation starter, follow friday, ideas, major regional theatre, marketing, meetup, neverbedark, newplaytv, non-profit theatre, partnerships, playwrights, producers, rabble rousing, social profit, talk about what's good, the future, theatrical ecosystem
Follow Friday: 18 Nov 2011
What can we learn from the birth of the regional theatre movement? Which arts administrator has reached a mass-critical critical mass? Where did Verdi and Shakespeare work to support their writing habits? How many theatres are we going to have to occupy? Why do we call it play? These are the stories we’ve been following [...]
