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  Why We Need Award Shows Like the Jessies

  06.22.10 | Permalink | View Comments

  Monday night, here in Vancouver, we celebrated The 28th Annual Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the Vancouver cultural landscape, The Jessies are our answer to Toronto’s Doras or Broadway’s Tony Awards. They honour theatre excellence over the past year. You can say what you like about awards shows: [...]

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  Watch This: Michael Kaiser

  05.17.10 | Permalink | View Comments

  Or more precisely, just listen, as this is just the audio from Michael Kaiser’s appearance at Portland Center Stage last week. Whether you agree or disagree with his advice and observations, it’s worth a listen. Some of his advice applies more towards the large, institutional theatres and, in many ways, echoes some of the idea [...]

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  Delete Twitter Theater Profiles

  04.18.10 | Permalink | View Comments

  If Rocco Landesman claims that artists are entrepreneurs, I think it is important to look at other entrepreneurial models, outside the theater world, to see what they are saying about the work they do, and how their work connects to customers and community. On person I follow pretty closely is Gary Vanyerchuck. His is very [...]

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  A Theater Should Be Like A Bookstore

  04.11.10 | Permalink | View Comments

  Not just any bookstore, but specifically this bookstore: Montague Bookmill in Montague, Massachusetts. Seth Godin sums it up well when he stated: This is the bookstore of the future, because it’s not a business trying to maximize growth and ROI. No, it’s a place, an attitude, an approach to an afternoon. They don’t sell every [...]

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  You Might Also like…

  03.17.10 | Permalink | View Comments

  I have talked time and again over at the Cambiare Productions blog about relationships and trust metrics and “street cred” and…. yes I’m as surprised as you are that anyone reads… but I’m going to restate it here because it needs restating. Ask a theatre artist what they don’t have, wind them up, and go [...]

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  Arms Against a Sea of Troubles

  03.16.10 | Permalink | View Comments

  Full disclosure. I am by trade a playwright. I may be an artist-in-residence, producer, sound designer, graphic designer, voiceover artist and marketing department for my own theatre company, which, yes, I co-founded. Those are things I do and can do. But I identify myself as a writer. With that in mind, you’ll understand why I [...]

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  Let’s Get this Started

  02.15.10 | Permalink | View Comments

  This week is all about the Devised Work convening hosted by the Arena Stage doing their level best to truly be a center for new American play development. They scooped up a raftload of folks not frightened off by DC’s recent uncharacteristic winter weather event and we will be discussing the ins and outs of [...]

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  Follow Friday: 05 Feb 10

  02.05.10 | Permalink | View Comments

  One nice tradition on Twitter is the “follow Friday” hashtag, where you pick out a few of the people you follow and suggest them to the rest of your followers. It’s an easy way to meet new people and make new connections. So we’re going to pay homage to our roots with our own version. [...]