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conversation starter
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advocacy, change the ratio, conversation starter, dispatches, ideas, international, playwrights, social profit, theatrical ecosystem
Other Voices, Other Rooms
05.20.13 | Permalink | 3 CommentsThere’s been a lot of talk online recently about the need for women playwrights to be better represented, have more opportunities, and be, if you’ll excuse the vagary, more equal. That’s lovely. As a woman playwright, I am all for that kind of talk, and the more there is of it, in any context, the [...]
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#2amt, #tawg, advocacy, community, conversation starter, rabble rousing, talk about what's good
Ordering off the menu
02.04.13 | Permalink | 2 CommentsI grew up in a household that was… healthy. Healthy healthy. Lima (bean) burgers, grinding grain blends for homemade bread, fresh milk from family friends who ran a small farm… my folks idea of retirement was decamping the suburbs and repairing to a 10 acre tract further north in New Hampshire so they could farm [...]
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advocacy, community, conversation starter, ideas, presenting, rabble rousing, social profit, the future, theatrical ecosystem
Artisphere: What Could Be…
01.07.13 | Permalink | 2 CommentsThe DC Theatre community took a hit recently when Artisphere announced that due to a policy change its resident theatre company WSC Avant Bard would be kicked out in the middle of its season. I feel deeply for the company; it is upsetting have your home taken from you and I wish them all the [...]
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advocacy, conversation starter, education, engagement, ideas, journalism, mission, social profit, storytelling
Responding As Artists to Newtown
Terror and Courage, Hope and Art We can’t claim to engage our communities in important conversations if we run away from them One of the plays to generate the most interest at our recent National Showcase of New Plays was Pluto, by the prolific and supremely-talented Steve Yockey. An alum of NNPN’s MFA Playwrights’ Workshop [...]
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#stealthisidea, collaboration, community, conversation starter, presenting, producers, theatrical ecosystem
Four Gentlemen of Verona?
12.10.12 | Permalink | 2 Comments[Ed Note: This post originally ran on Tales of a Squishy Morph] We have two Equity theatre companies in the Boston area in devoted primarily to Shakespeare. Commonwealth Shakespeare Company does a splashy outdoor free production on Boston Common every summer, while Actors Shakespeare Project does full seasons of edgy productions in a variety of metro-Boston venues. I don’t [...]
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conversation starter
Killing that old black magic
11.27.12 | Permalink | 4 CommentsIf you’re wise, even just a little wise, you don’t blurt out the literal first thing that comes to your mind. Your first response may be the truest, it may be right, but unfiltered conversation is seldom advisable no matter how entertaining. You of course should always record your first impulse and dissect it later [...]
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conversation starter, engagement, magic
Magic Acts
The first performer I saw live, other than a band, was David Copperfield. He was amazing. As a child I sat there amazed by the magic created in front of me. Fascinated by how he broke the rules of science and did things that I had only before seen in comic books. I couldn’t do [...]
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#nampc, arts administration, conferences, conversation starter, marketing, neverbedark
NAMPC: Testing Ideas
11.16.12 | Permalink | 4 CommentsThe astute reader can find the live tweets from last weekend’s National Arts Marketing Project Conference (#nampc, if you really want to read the several thousand tweets). There are many ideas and quotes that got tweeted, retweeted, modified, agreed with, and favorited. To my ear, however, there was one idea that became a throughline, that [...]
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#stealthisidea, conversation starter, crowdsourcing, customer service, engagement, ideas, new technology, social media, steal this idea
A Thousand Words
10.01.12 | Permalink | 3 CommentsSmile, Broadway! You’re On Instagram! Facebook is so over. At least, that’s what a college-age co-worker told me this summer while discussing arts marketing. The mega social network may be waning with a younger demographic, but a recent Facebook acquisition is growing exponentially. More than 80 million people are sharing photos on their iPhones and [...]
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#2amt, #stealthisidea, arts administration, arts service organizations, audiences, broadway, collaboration, community, conversation starter, corporate sponsors, dance, engagement, funding and support, ideas, major regional theatre, marketing, new play development, new plays, non-profit theatre, partnerships, playwrights, producers, public relations, rabble rousing, social media, social profit, steal this idea, the future, theatrical ecosystem
#stealthisidea: Vending Machine Dances, Musicals in the Wild and Blues at the Bank
One of my favorite things about summer in an arts organization is that you get a couple of precious weeks where, in between the planning and the subscription mailings, there’s a little fallow time where you can sometimes rise above the fray and say, HEY. What are other people doing right that we can steal [...]
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arts administration, audiences, conversation starter, engagement, ideas, marketing, p.r., public relations, pull quotes, rabble rousing, social media, social profit
Pull Quotes: Michael Kaiser & Social Media
I should be writing other things. And I hate to have two posts in a row reacting to Michael Kaiser’s posts at Huffington Post. But here we are. Instead, here are some quick reactions to Kaiser’s latest post about social media directly from Twitter. [View the story "Social Media on Michael Kaiser" on Storify] Social [...]
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advocacy, classical theatre, community, conversation starter, ideas, major regional theatre, mission, rabble rousing, social profit, theatrical ecosystem
One Hundred and Twenty Seconds
04.26.12 | Permalink | 13 CommentsA lot has been said about the Guthrie’s season announcement, and probably a lot more will be. I want to focus on one part of it. But first, I want to say that while I don’t disagree with most of the criticism the Guthrie has worked hard over the last decade or so to foster [...]
