At the American Shakespeare Center, we are getting ready to expand our social media footprint. Internally, this plan has met with a rich combination of excitement and concern. What happens when we let our ASC family loose on Twitter, YouTube, and blogs? How can we make sure that we are all representing the ASC in [...]
A conversation broke out during the hockey game that is Twitter last week around the topic of gender equity, or the lack thereof, in the theatre. This eventually led to an offshoot on the nature of inclusion as a whole. There is a gnarled thicket of issues blossoming fruitfully underneath ‘gender equity’ and ‘inclusion.’ I [...]
There have been a number of conversations sparking up this week about the inherent value of theatre, the arts in society. A particularly vocal area has been about value of the arts in education. These conversations have been going on over at the #2amt hashtag as well as various blogs and facebook. One document of [...]