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funding and support
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advocacy, funding and support
When Did Alec Baldwin Become My Spokesman?
01.05.12 | Permalink | 2 CommentsI saw a comment on Twitter this morning which reminded me that Alec Baldwin will be delivering the annual Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy at the Kennedy Center in April. This is not breaking news; it was announced in November, although a just-issued press release has reinforced awareness of the upcoming event. But [...]
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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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audiences, facts + figures, funding and support, rabble rousing, theatrical ecosystem
Gross
10.11.11 | Permalink | 9 CommentsThey come, with startling regularity, on Monday and Tuesday each week. “The Grosses.” The Broadway League aggregates and releases the gross sales and attendance for every Broadway show on Monday afternoons (Tuesdays when there’s been a holiday), and a wide range of outlets dutifully report on the biggest hits, the biggest losers, and prognosticate on [...]
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audiences, collaboration, corporate sponsors, designers, development, devised work, directors, dramaturgy, funding and support, ideas, new plays, non-profit theatre, playwrights, presenting, producers, the process
Devised Theatre: Transitioning to Production
Previously in this column: The members of Bright Alchemy Theatre, a very young devised theatre company based in Washington, DC, have spent the last nine months working on its new project which began with the question: Why do we as a species feel the need to tell stories about our own destruction? This weekend, for [...]
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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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advocacy, arts service organizations, charity, collaboration, community, funding and support, partnerships, spotlight, talk about what's good, the future
A Little Conspiracy
The theatre niche of the social media stream operates much like any other Animal Farm and in this particular backwater Animal Farm I am a donkey who has lived a long time. Hang around long enough and one sees the patterns of people entering and leaving or the ebbs and flows of the heat of the conversation. One [...]
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charity, crowdsourcing, funding and support, ideas, kickstarter, music
Kick It
07.19.11 | Permalink | 6 CommentsI get a lot of questions about Kickstarter and funding commissions through this tool, and have chimed in on a number of Twitter conversations about its effectiveness. Kickstarter is a threshold giving system: for those unfamiliar with it, an artist or small organization can set up a fundraising campaign through the tool. Kickstarter provides a [...]
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conversation starter, funding and support, ideas, playwrights, rabble rousing, theatrical ecosystem
New Ways to Commission New Plays
07.11.11 | Permalink | 6 CommentsI’ve been thinking lately about why, how, and by whom new plays are commissioned. I’ve been fortunate enough to have earned a few commissions myself, and it won’t surprise anyone to learn that in all of those instances, the commissions have come from theater companies. The companies in question needed plays to produce; they thought [...]
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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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arts administrators, collaboration, conversation starter, development, facts + figures, funding and support, ideas, playwrights, rabble rousing, theatrical ecosystem
Theatre Econ 101
06.09.11 | Permalink | 27 Commentsor The Woman Behind the Desk is Not Your Enemy The other day, a tweet came across my screen linking to this post about theatre economy. The thrust of the post is that we need to help playwrights be able to make a living writing plays (an important piece of a larger theatre econ conversation [...]
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funding and support, livestreams, q & a, the process, theatre festivals, theatrical ecosystem
OSF: 2011 Opening Weekend
On the Sunday morning of opening weekend (yesterday as I post this), Oregon Shakespeare Festival Executive Director Paul Nicholson and Artistic Director Bill Rauch sat down for a press conference with the critics and reporters who were in town for the 2011 opening weekend. I hear the event used to feature pastries! Now they give [...]
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advocacy, arts administrators, funding and support, ideas, producers, rabble rousing, supply / demand, theatrical ecosystem
Get A (Full) Job
02.24.11 | Permalink | 24 CommentsI’m really happy for Gwydion here. He’s found a situation that works for him as an artist, and I wouldn’t wish him anything differently. But as he points out so well, not every artist has the luxury of a cool company, doing work that so well complements their art. And in the end, my own [...]
